A Nepalese Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Manahari Development Institute in Nepal (MDI-Nepal), has bagged a prestigious UN award on environment and conservation.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced Wednesday the winners of this year

When air pollution hurts people

Recent meeting of Persistent Organic Pollutant Review Committee (POPRC), a subsidiary body of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) was held at Geneva on 15th of October, 2010 in which the member nations especially European Union lobby strongly voiced for a global ban on the production and use of endosulfan, an organochlorine compound widely used in agriculture as an ins

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The climate talks ended with uncertainty over the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol and no agreement on binding emission reductions.

The difference between optimists and pessimists is that the optimists have more fun, joked Elias Freig-Delgado, a member of Mexico's Ministry of Finance Special CO {-2} Task Force and the working groups of the U.N.

A new report from the UN Environment Programme says even if all countries strictly adhered to their current pledges to cut down greenhouse gas emissions, it would still not be enough to keep the global average rise in temperatures to below 2 degree Celsius compared to pre-industrial times, as is required to avoid catastrophic impacts.

The report, released at the climate change conference here,

About 10 days from today, the parties to the UN climate convention will have another bash at hammering out an agreement to avert what they all agree is one of the gravest threats that the world faces in the decades ahead.

Sri Lanka is one of the 30 countries that won this year's SEED awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development given by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Sri Lanka was recognized for its project "Rural Enterprise Network (REN)" which aims at linking small-scale farmers to input-output markets through improved product quality, access to market information and the establishm

India has joined hands with Nepal and China for conservation of the sacred Kailash landscape. Representatives from the three nations, met in Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, in China, recently to discuss on the landscape conservation initiative.

A global clamour for cuts in emissions, growing investor appetite for energy sector projects and sound government policies could help Africa make strides in green energy generation in the next few years.

Some governments, like Kenya, plan to raise the amount of energy generated from renewable sources like wind and solar, to cut overreliance on expensive sources and stabilize power supplies.

The ozone layer that shields life from the sun's harmful rays is projected to recover from harmful chemicals by mid-century, but it will take longer over the polar regions, a United Nations study said on Thursday.

Ozone depletion -- blamed for higher ultraviolet radiation that causes skin cancers and cataracts and damages agriculture

-- will continue for decades as several key damaging subst