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WITH ANOTHER International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day set for this Saturday, September 16, the need to redouble efforts to combat plastics pollution is once again being given the spotlight. Under the theme ‘Sea the change’, the focus of ICC Day 2023...

Sexual harassment can have significant emotional, physical and societal impacts. Sexual harassment occurs when unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, or other verbal or physical actions of a sexual nature explicitly or implicitly impact a person’s employment, unreasonably disrupt their work performance, or create an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment. It is a […]

BALI, Indonesia—Seventy-five completed grant projects on biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement in Indonesia were showcased in the recently concluded Small Grants Programme (SGP) Indonesia Closing Forum. The SGP is a regional program of the Asean Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), supported by Germany through the German Development Bank (KfW) that was…

VANCOUVER — The devastating wildfires in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, in mid-August, forced the province into a state of emergency and gloom. But just a few days later, as the smoky skies of Vancouver began to clear up, environmentalists found a reason to cheer. About 1,500 delegates representing environmental ministries, youth, women, Indigenous […]

Using community windows for the Loss and Damage Fund will make climate finance more accessible and provide a mechanism to more easily respond to local needs.

Dr. George Ortsin, the Country Program Manager at Global Environment Facility, Small Grants Programme says the potential to invest in tree planting...

Indonesia feels as if it is a microcosm of the worlds biodiversity.

Dr. George Ortsin, the Country Program Manager at Global Environment Facility, Small Grants Programme says the potential to invest in tree planting to generate power from biomass in Ghana is very high. He called on the government to invest in technologies to utilize biomass resources into useful energy through Combined…

Plan for Change - Ghana, an NGO, has engaged stakeholders at Saru in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District as part of the implementation of the Promoting Climate Smart and Organic Agricultural Practices for Food Security and Socio-Economic Development project. The community engagement was to interact with the people of the area as…

A hub for local people has been created at Bridgwater Baptist Church using a £220,000 grant.