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Woori Financial Group Chairman and CEO Son Tae-seung will visit Europe next month to discuss the groups efforts in environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) practices on the global stage, according to the banking group, Monday. It said Sons planned trip comes upon the joint invitation of two U.N. bodies _ the U.N. Framework Convention (UNFCC) and UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) _ plus that of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resource...

Sand and Dust Storms (SDS) are often considered as a natural phenomenon typical of the remote desert regions. It is becoming clear, however, that human activities also contribute to the increasing global impacts of SDS. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification has recently recognized the global relevance of the anthropogenic SDS sources.

Goa signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Isha Outreach today to conserve soil in the state, becoming the ninth Indian state to officially join the Global Movement to Save Soil.

NUEVO MEXICO, Mexico — Standing in her cornfield in Chiapas state, surrounded by mountains and dry tropical forests, Maria Luisa Gordillo Mendoza looks concerned. “They said we were pigs for sowing like this,” she says of the other farmers’ reaction to her fields covered with sticks and old corn husks and dotted with lanky trees. […]

This is how the Muslims’ Holy Book - the Quran refers to the most precious element of life.Religions apart, also UNESCO underlines the fact that “water is a unique and non-substitutable resour

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The Great Green Wall is designed to be a band of trees the length of the Sahel. We look at how the project is faring in Burkino Faso

António Guterres, UN secretary-general, has appointed Simon Stiell as the new executive secretary of the UN climate change secretariat...

Around 60,000 hectares of forests are burnt every year to cure tobacco, as farmers lack the space to grow their own trees.

The Commonwealth Secretary-General has called for a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to tackle the increasing threat of food insecurity across the world, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict, the climate crisis, and political, social and economic inequalities.