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It is absurd for some Western media to criticize China for not doing enough to reduce carbon emissions, said Eric Solheim, former head of the United Nations Environment Programme. He said China is acting much more determinedly than any other country in the world in fighting climate change, and he hailed China as a world leader in best environmental practices, whether it is the use of renewable energy or electric vehicles.

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According to the United Nations' Environment Programme (UNEP), the world is currently embroiled in a ‘plastics pollution crisis’ - but now, according to that very same Environment Programme, it is considered eminently possible that an 80% reduction in this pollution could be achieved before 2040. Click to read more...

WASHINGTON: Countries can reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by 2040 using existing technologies and making major policy changes, the UN Environment Programme said in a report on Monday. The Kenya-based UN body released its analysis of policy options to tackle the plastic waste crisis two weeks before countries convene in Paris for a second round of negotiations to craft a

Governments negotiating a Global Plastics Treaty should ensure that it addresses the role of fossil fuels in plastic production and includes human rights protections.

CNA's Chan Eu Imm discusses the major challenges sea freight operators face with Ingrid Irigoyen, Associate Director for the Ocean and Climate at the Energy and Environment Programme, Aspen Institute. She explains the cost of going green continues to be the main barrier for most companies. And she argues policymakers s

Beijing has systematically infiltrated not only the various bodies of the United Nations but also several other global institutions

The 4th Global Conference of the One Planet Network’s Sustainable Food System Programme (SFS Programme) will be held from April 24 to 27, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) announced at a press conference in Hanoi on April 18.

All too few organizations have been doing much to tackle nature destruction and loss to date, which tends to be overshadowed by the much higher-profile...

(Archived document, may contain errors) T1 608 October 5, 1987 THE CENTRE ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS: I HOW THE U.N. INJURES POOR NATIONS The United Nations has a long history of attacking the free enterprise system. A key elemeht in this is the campaign against multinational corporations or, as they are called at the U.N., Transnational Corporations (TNCs A leader in this attack is the New York-based Centre on Transnational Corporations (CTC). Corporations; which was established in 19