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Securing Our Greener Future Source: Supplied Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:23 AM For the first time ever, the UN Development Programme Small Grants Programme in Solomon Islands handed over the certificate of afforestation project completion to its grantee, Isi Akson Theatre Art Trust (Inc). With the outstanding goal to plant over 5,000 trees, the reforestation project had received the financial support from the UNDP Small Grants Programme (SGP) back in 2013, to restore biodiversity and create sustainable livelihoods in the Kolokisu community. Forests are vitally important for sustaining ...

Published on: Sunday, July 25, 2021 By: Kan Yaw Chong Text Size: Preparing waste collected to get transported to mainland. IT REMINDED me a shell-shock sight of bales of compressed plastic bottles in 2019! My first reaction was: “Waa, that looks familiar upon receipt last Monday of a press release entitled: ‘Reef Check Malaysia sends another 1,500kg of trash off Mantanani; calls for more government help’.” This mountain of trash that had thrashed Mantanani is nothing new to me anymore. On August 2019, I followed Swiss-based Race for Water crew to the island in in a maiden trip. That w...

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THE STANDARD ENVIRONMENT Walid Badawi, UNDP Resident Representative. We mark World Environment Day under extremely difficult circumstances. The globe is reeling from the impacts of COVID-19, arguably one of the worst ever global pandemics, as well as the devastating impacts of climate change that continues to push the world as we know it to that dreaded point of no-return. Even as we applaud the efforts by various stakeholders to respond to these twin challenges of our generation, we note that more efforts are required to surmount these dynamic problems and put the world on a path to recovery...

IN the hills above Trelawny, the award-winning Sawyers Local Forest Management Committee (LFMC) B...