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BBC News By Victoria Gill image copyrightGetty Images More than 900 million tonnes of food is thrown away every year, according to a global report. The UN Environment Programmes Food Waste Index revealed that 17% of the food available to consumers - in shops, households and restaurants - goes directly into the bin. Some 60% of that waste is in the home. The lockdown appears to have had a surprising impact - at least in the UK - by reducing domestic food waste. image copyrightChris Terry image ...

Image use for representative purpose NEW DELHI: An estimated 931 million tonnes of food, or 17% of total food available to consumers in 2019 globally, went into the waste bins of households, retailers, restaurants and other food services, said the Food Waste Index Report 2021, released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Thursday. The weight of the global food waste roughly equals India’s total production of foodgrain, oilseeds, sugarcane and horticultural produce, put tog...

Nearly 1 billion tons of food is wasted every year, a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme found.

03 Mar 2021 Kimberly Nicole Pope Project and Community Lead, Nature Action Agenda, World Economic Forum For World Wildlife Day, we asked seven "Champions of Nature" their picks for books that motivate them. The answers include A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel. During this year’s Davos Agenda Week, leaders from the private and public sectors highlighted the urgent need to halt and reverse nature loss. Deliberate action on the interlinked climate and ecological crises to achieve...

Pakistan to host World Environment Day tomorrow   Published On Pakistan had also achieved the global Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-13) of Climate Action ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan will host its first ever global world environment day celebrations here on March 1 to create awareness for effective actions among masses and stakeholders like the rest of the world for joining hands to preserve the rapidly dwindling ecology and ecosystems due to climate change. The announcement for mak...

Pakistan to host Environment Day Islamabad Islamabad : Pakistan will host the World Environment Day 2021 in partnership with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). A summary of the climate change ministry in this respect was approved by Prime Minister Imran Khan last week saying it’s a great recognition of the global community of the government’s various initiatives taken for the conservation and protection of environment, wildlife, natural resources and climate risk reduction, climate chang...

What you need to know about the 5th UN Environment Assembly Published: - Feb 28, 2021 The event focused its efforts on finding solutions that reduce the triple global emergency and allow meeting the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development . We will tell you what were the themes of the fifth UN Environment Assembly. Photo: Pexels LatinAmerican Post | Mariann Estefanía Soto Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio tag. , took place in Nairobi...

Pakistan: Host of World Environment Day 2021 Last Monday, February 22, at the Fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), the adviser to the Prime Minister and Minister of Climate Change of Pakistan, Malik Amin Aslam, and the executive director of the UNEP, Inger Andersen, announced that Pakistan will host World Environment Day 2021, celebrated this year on June 5 . According to the press release, the central theme of this event will be "the restoration of systems and th...

World risks new pandemics, warns UN Environment Assembly ​ By IANS | Published on ​ Wed, Feb 24 2021 7:36 IST | ​ 0 Views World risks new pandemics, warns UN Environment Assembly. Image Source: IANS News Nairobi, Feb 24 : Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 150 nations concluded a two-day online meeting of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in which the Assembly warned that the world risks new pandemics "if we dont change how we safeguard nat...