Myanmar gears up for action on climate change
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his recent report on the Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19 that governments should not respond to the COVID-19 crisis...
COVID-19 environmental roll back ‘irrational’ and irresponsible’
Countries must not use the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to weaken environmental protection and enforcement, a UN independent human rights expert said on...
The Choices We Make Now Will Shape the Future
In the midst of our global response to COVID-19, the world is in need of an economic transformation, one that promotes both the sustainable...
Waste management an essential public service in the fight to beat COVID-19
With the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continuing to spread and its impacts upon human health and the economy intensifying day-by-day, governments are urged to...
Celebrate your love for the ocean, virtually
Remote diving is the new remote working.
Schools, events and activities in so much of the world
have come to a standstill in the wake of...
China: Developing Green Finance in Agriculture
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors
today approved a loan of Euro 267.2 million (US$300 million equivalent) for
China to foster green agriculture investments, development...
Coronavirus and Climate Change: Observing World Water Day
A message from Dr.
Jennifer Blanke Vice-President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development
African Development Bank
The theme of this year’s World Water Day, observed on 22 March,...
The wonder trees that nurture marine biodiversity
This 2020 theme for the International Day of Forests on 21 March is Forests and
Biodiversity. It's an often-quoted fact that forests
are home to 80...
Guterres: Turn around deforestation in 2020, the ‘Nature Super Year’
On the International Day of Forests, which falls on Saturday, UN chief António Guterres is calling for
2020, which has been referred to as a...
Let it flow: Improving water quantity and quality in Tanzania’s Rufiji river basin
Water, essential to all life, plays a particularly important role in the
lives of Tanzanians living near Mbarali River, part of the larger Rufiji River
basin...