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Kuala Lumpur City Hall is working towards striking a balance between carbon emissions and absorption through its Low-Carbon Society Blueprint 2030 and Draft Structure Plan 2040 for Malaysia’s capital city.

The Blue flag beaches are known as the cleanest and hygienic beaches of the world The main motto behind this objective of the BEAMS program is to reduce pollution in sea waters maintain cleanliness and hygiene along with safety for tourists and conserve coastal ecosystems and natural resources

Today, WWF and Tesco publish Driven to Waste, a new report that quantifies the total amount of food lost on farms globally, revealing an estimated 2.5 billion tonnes of food 2 goes uneaten around the world each year. That is an increase of approximately 1.2 billion tonnes on the established estimates of 1.3 billion tonnes wasted each year. These new estimates indicate that of all the food grown, approximately 40 per cent goes uneaten, which is higher than the previously estimated figure of 33%...

Earth’s ecosystems are stressed, and people are suffering the consequences. Experts say that conserving what’s left of the natural world is not good enough; we must also restore it — and the clock is ticking. Last week marked the launch of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration led by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) […]

Last 20 years, the world has already witnessed three pandemics The frequency of pandemic is increasing with environment degradation New Delhi:World Environment Day 2021 marks the launch of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a 10-year push to halt and reverse the decline of the natural world. United Nations Environment Programme defines an ecosystem as a place where plants, animals and other organisms, in conjunction with the landscape around them, come together to form the web ...

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04/27/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/28/2021 15:12 Speakers Discuss Ways States Can Confront Large-Scale Land Clearing, Boost Cooperation among Stakeholders, as Forum on Forests Continues Session The Forum on Forests focused on ways to better implement the United Nations strategic plan for forests and its six global forest goals, particularly in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and the upcoming fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biolo...

Despite consensus, plastic continues to pile up published : 26 Apr 2021 at 04:30 4 Most customers dont bring their own cups and bags when they buy things from vendors, which contributes to the amount of plastic waste. Bangkok Post photo Plastic pollution is never far away in Southeast Asia. Its in the streets, the rivers, the forests, the beaches and almost anywhere else you care to look. According to a 2018 United Nations Environment Prog...

NEW YORK, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- According to new research by World Animal Protection, a global animal welfare nonprofit organization, public waterways next to factory farms contain antibiotic resistance genes (ARG)—the building blocks of superbugs—that may pose a risk to public health. The study provides new evidence of the presence of antibiotic resistance in the environment near large factory farms in the US, suggesting intensive farms could be polluting local waterways and...

(0) Global Industry leaders, thought leaders, Universities and government officials will speak during the 3-day openbusinesscouncil summit in partnership with WSCF World Smart Cities Forum and in collaboration with Ruh Global Impact on 20th, 21st and 22nd April 2021 LONDON, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- openbusinesscouncil summit offers businesses and governments solutions to the urgency to create awareness for digital transformation, 4IR Tech to empower businesses and SMEs. The citiesabc an...