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un environment programme news

World Environment Day 2023: Date, history, significance, theme of the day, host

This year, the theme of World Environment Day will focus on solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution.
festivals
Updated on Jun 05, 2023 07:14 am IST

Boost climate action or we'll see you in court, activists tell govts

Environmental activists take part in a protest calling for the government to take immediate action against climate change in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, September 24. 
environment
Published on Sept 27, 2022 11:27 am IST

Sponge cities beating urban heat in China

A subway station in Zhuhai, China (File photo- AP)
environment
Published on Feb 25, 2022 02:50 pm IST

Countries' fossil fuel production plans out of sync with Paris limits: UN report

The report finds out that the world’s governments plan to produce around 110% more fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C.
environment
Published on Feb 03, 2022 09:07 am IST

17-year-old girl from Surat appointed as Regional Ambassador for UN Environment Programme

Khushi Chindaliya’s interest in nature and conservation of the environment has now made her The Regional Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme - Tunza Eco-Generation.
trending
Published on Sept 23, 2020 10:58 am IST

Build back, with an eye on the environment | HT Editorial

Use the dip in emissions to imagine a new, more eco-friendly, world
editorials
Updated on May 21, 2020 06:14 am IST

Dipka mine gets green clearance for another 30 years

Local environmental activists like Bipasha Paul of Raipur-based Jan Abhivyakti, who visited the spot soon after the flooding, found that fly ash washed away from the mine polluted the river.
india news
Updated on Feb 11, 2020 04:36 am IST

‘Will call you when I land,’ newly-wed Indian woman had texted husband before Ethiopia crash

Shikha Garg,32, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) consultant with the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF), dialled her father, Satish Garg, from Addis Ababa.
india news
Updated on Mar 12, 2019 10:31 pm IST

‘My lucky day’: Greek man saved from Ethiopia crash by being 2 minutes late

Antonis Mavropoulos was supposed to board the plane but he reached the departure gate just two minutes after it was closed.
world news
Updated on Mar 11, 2019 08:56 am IST

World Environment Day: Southeast Asia’s plastic ‘addiction’ blights world’s oceans

This photo taken on May 12, 2018 shows a dog looking out onto a garbage-filled creek in Manila. About eight million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the world's oceans every year - the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic being tipped into the sea every minute... of every day.
environment
Updated on Jun 05, 2018 12:48 pm IST

Your space: PMC’s Pay-and-Park policy needs to be debated by citizens

The proposed parking policy aims to limit the use of available parking space and levy parking fees as a means to curb the use of vehicles in the city.
pune news
Updated on Mar 25, 2018 02:55 pm IST
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