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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% 3. Driven to Waste is the first quantification of total on-farm food losses since 2011. When combi...
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 of life. Ecosystems can be large, like a forest, or small, like a pond. However, in the recent past,...