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Ten arts projects have been awarded funding totalling over £45,000 as part of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Small Grants funding programme - including one on the north coast.

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations (UN) says thousands of small-scale, community driven initiatives, including many in the Caribbean, are making “a huge difference” in people’s lives and contri...

Acting Environment Secretary Jim O. Sampulna (right) signs the project document, which is a binding document among the Department of Environment and Natural

Last week, the CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, visited Indonesia to attend the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury and took the opportunity to visit two local initiatives supported by the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP).

New Delhi [India], March 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): Underscoring the significance of engaging with grassroots communities to effectively tackle the impacts of climate change, government representatives and experts taking part in the inception workshop for the GEF Seventh Operational Phase of Small Grants Programme in India (SGP - OP7) in New Delhi on Tuesday, emphasised the need to think globally and act locally to ring in transformative change.

RESIDENTS OF St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), as well as visitors now have an additional recreational facility where they can have family or group limes or other such events. This new facility is the River 14 Recreational Park which is nestled in the community of South Rivers. The facility, which was developed by the General Employees Co-operative Credit Union (GECCU), and other partners was officially opened on Thursday, March …

The Centre For Environment, Technology and Development Malaysia (Cetdem) is hosting a seminar for youths titled “Farming for and by the Next Generation – Organic” on March 19 and 20 at Hotel Capitol Kuala Lumpur in Bukit Bintang.

The Asean Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) is tapping into the power of the youth to tell stories about biodiversity, its values, and the many ways to safeguard it. Through its newest program, the Young Asean Storytellers (YAS), the ACB is calling all Asean youth to showcase their skills and talents…

Pacific countries made major strides towards realising the vision of the Cleaner Pacific 2025 today, with the launch of ISLANDS Pacific – a 14-nation initiative aiming to avoid the release of 28,000 tonnes of marine litter, safely dispose of 720 tonnes of contaminated material, and reduce the burden of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and mercury in island communities.  ISLANDS Pacific will strengthen existing regional efforts to #BeatPollution, through support for container deposit legis...

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