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Solar for work in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique The government is providing solar power systems as welfare payment in job schemes for the poor For nearly two years now, Bangladesh has been providing solar home systems as part of its welfare programmes targeted at the 40 million citizens who still live below the poverty line. Banglade

Kenya creates online system to monitor rural sanitation

Duncan Mboyah Kenya has launched an online monitoring, evaluation and reporting system to improve capturing data on sanitation and hygiene status, a conference has heard. According to Kenya’s Ministry of Health, the country has open defecation rate of 14 per cent, with countries such as Wajir and

How a UN platform to stop biodiversity loss could up its game

Maud Borie and Aleksandar Rankovic Biodiversity keeps declining despite lots of accumulated knowledge and numerous international and national commitments to act. How could IPBES help change this? Biodiversity, the variety of plant, animal and microbial life on Earth, is still declining. For many y

Kenya announces breakthrough ban on plastic bags

Ban on all production, use and import of plastic bags to take effect in six months  The 24 million plastic bags currently used each month are a major cause of environmental damage and health problems Plastic bags are also a major contributor to the 8 million tonnes of plastic dumped in the sea ever

Education , Human Rights , Migration / 03/16/2017
EU and UNICEF to reach thousands of refugee children in Turkey with Conditional Cash Transfer for Education

The European Union and UNICEF have launched the largest ever EU humanitarian contribution to Education in Emergencies, valued at EUR 34 million. The Conditional Cash Transfer for Education (CCTE) project aims to increase the number of refugee children enrolled in and attending school in Turkey. The

Canadian oil company pulls out of uncontacted tribes land in Peru

A Canadian oil company is withdrawing from the territory of several uncontacted tribes in the Amazon where it had been intending to explore for oil. The company, Pacific E&P, had previously been awarded the right to explore for oil in a large area of the Amazon Uncontacted Frontier, an area o

Proposed Law Would Require All California Children To Be Screened For Lead

Ana B. Ibarra Growing national concern about lead poisoning in children has prompted a California lawmaker to introduce legislation to ensure that all of the state’s kids are tested for the toxic metal. The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), would change the state’s Health

Business , Water / 03/10/2017
Water Restrictions Force Pepsi to Cease Production

PepsiCo has been forced to cease operations at its bottling plant in Kanjikode, in the south Indian state of Kerala because of water shortages A team led by Professor P. S. Panikkar, an eminent social activist and member of the Kanjikode Paristithy Kaval Sangham, a government appointed watchdog grou

A year after Berta Cáceres’ murder, protecting the planet is just as deadly

Robert Soutar Latin America remains the world’s deadliest region in which to defend the environment but those on the frontline of land and resource-related conflicts are continually targeted all over the world by profit from environmentally destructive industries. In recent months activists have

Rio carnival stars environmental disaster

The Minas Gerais disaster, which had irreversible negative effects on human health and the environment, was revived this year in one of the most important spaces in Brazilian popular culture: the carnival of Rio de Janeiro. In 2015, the collapse of a dam at a mine in the Brazilian state of Minas Ger

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