Tue 11 October 2022: New Zealand intends to be the first country to charge farmers for the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their agricultural activities. The program was announced on Tuesday, October 11, by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her minister. According to the newly implemented scheme, farmers will be responsible for paying for all […]
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Tue 11 October 2022: Kuwait has unveiled plans to develop a completely carbon-free green city, to be named XZERO, Al-Seyassah has reported. It is planned to be the largest of its kind in the world, and the first in the Middle East. The construction of the eco-city is said to be in line with the strategy set […]
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Sun 09 October 2022: In November, heads of state, ministers, journalists and activists will gather in Egypt’s Red Sea Resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh for the UN climate change summit, COP27. There has been widespread concern about the role civil society will play. “When it’s hosted in a country like Egypt, where a serious human […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: Pakistan is on the verge of a public health disaster after the devastating floods, the UN secretary-general warned on Friday, as the world body now seeks $816 million to help the South Asian nation, a surge of $656 million from the initial appeal. The devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods in Pakistan […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: Brazil’s Amazon region has experienced record-breaking deforestation in September, continuing a trend that has gotten worse under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. In September, 1,455 square kilometers (562 square miles) of rainforest were cleared, according to satellite data from INPE, a Brazilian space research organization. That surpasses the September 2019 record in […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: After becoming stranded on a beach in the distant Chatham Islands, about 215 pilot whales died. A DOC spokesperson said on Saturday that they had received a report of about 250 whales beached in the northwest corner of Chatham Island (Rkohu/Wharekauri), which is located 840 kilometers east of the mainland of […]
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Thu 06 October 2022: Billionaire philanthropist, Bill Gates, has backed the Middle East to be “part of the solution” to pressing environmental challenges facing the world. The Microsoft co-founder praised the UAE for its ambitious efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, highlighting the significant progress being made on the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant. “This […]
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Fri 30 September 2022: Mexico has risen to the top of the list of the most dangerous places in the world for land defenders and environmental activists, according to the NGO Global Witness, According to the group’s report, “Decade of Defiance,” Mexico had the highest number of murders among the 200 land and environmental defenders […]
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Thu 29 September 2022: Over 1.1 million sea turtles have been illegally killed in the past 30 years, according to a recent study. Despite laws intended to protect them, at least 44,000 turtles have been illegally killed and exported annually across 65 countries, according to scientists from Arizona State University. According to the UN, the […]
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Tue 27 September 2022: Every year September 27 is celebrated as World Tourism Day to mark the anniversary of the adoption of the Statutes of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). On the occasion of World Tourism Day 2022, let us analyze whether international tourism reached a pre-pandemic level or not. Although international tourism […]
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