Environment
Avaaz urges immediate action at 7th GEF Assembly
August 24, 2023
The summer of 2023 has been one of the worst in Canadian history, at least in terms of wildfires that had gripped vast tracts of Canadian forests, affecting all the 13 provinces and impacting over 15.5 million hectares of what was mainly virgin forest. So bad was the situation th...
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Big expectations as 8 South American leaders gathe...
August 8, 2023
On Tuesday, Presidents from eight countries across the Amazon including Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela gather in Belem in Brazil in their first meeting since 2009 under the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO) to discuss the fate...
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350.org to hold ‘Global Day of Action’ on rene...
August 6, 2023
Global climate justice organisation 350.org says it will organise worldwide days of action on November 3 and 4 to urgent acceleration of the transition to a renewable-powered world. In a press statement, 350.org says that its announcement coincides with fossil fuel companies repo...
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UAE-UNFCCC sign host country agreement for COP28
August 3, 2023
The United Arab Emirates and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the organiser of climate change meetings or COPs, have signed the Host Country Agreement for COP28, that will be held in Dubai later this year. According to a press statement, the agr...
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Carbon offsets need close regulation & verifi...
August 2, 2023
Though carbon offset programmes have been around for a decade, over the last couple of years thousands of companies and self-styled not-for-profit organisations have sprung up all over the world claiming to provide carbon offsets that have evolved into multi-billion business, wit...
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New water pollution monitoring system set to make ...
June 9, 2023
A team of researchers from universities in Scotland, Portugal and Germany have developed a new water pollution sensor which can be printed on 3-D machines, making it readily available everywhere at a very low cost. According to scientists at the Glasgow University, which leads th...
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G7 meeting failed to read LeMay leaflets
May 21, 2023
Before the bombing of Hiroshima, under the orders of American General Curtis LeMay, millions of leaflets were dropped from American military planes warning the citizens of grave consequences of war weapons. The leaflets informed of urgent precautions like safe shelter or evacuati...
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Climate activists launch global action week target...
May 15, 2023
Global climate activist group 350.org and members of Fossil Free Japan coalition is leading a worldwide protest to demand that Japan and the rest of G7 leaders immediately stop supporting all fossil fuels. According to a press statement, the protest in Japan has been joined in by...
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Climate Justice & G20: Making the most of Mod...
April 6, 2023
Rapidly unravelling first quarter of India’s leadership of G20 has witnessed major developments at global stage on climate change, chronic concerns on COVID and continued conflict between Russia and Ukraine. These triple crises are affecting geo-politics, world economic...
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Bottled Water masks world’s failure to supply sa...
March 16, 2023
The rapidly-growing bottled water industry can undermine progress towards a key sustainable development goal, that of providing safe water for all, says a new United Nations report. Based on an analysis of literature and data from 109 countries, the report says that in just five ...
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