India’s Dr. Purnima Devi Barman, a wildlife biologist, has been named to get the annual Champions of The Earth award which is the UN’s Highest Environmental Honour which celebrates ecosystem restoration. She has been honoured in the Entrepreneurial Vision category. Barman leads the “Hargila
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been completely shut down as a security measure, the state agency in charge of the plant, Energoatom, said. Unit No. 6 was disconnected from the grid at 3:41 a.m. local time on Sunday after the agency
Two more US military planes carrying tons of aid for Pakistan affected by heavy monsoon rains landed in the southern province of Sindh, one of the hardest-hit regions of the impoverished country, on Sunday. Saif Ullah, a spokesman for the country’s Civil
Rich countries have said they will spend around $25 billion by 2025 to boost Africa’s efforts to adapt to climate change, officials said at a summit on the weather in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Monday. The summit is the first to bring
UN Chief Antonio Guterres will visit flood-affected Pakistan next week on a solidarity visit and see how the UN is working to support the government’s efforts to provide aid to millions of people affected by unprecedented flooding. The visit was announced as
Following the devastating floods and landslides that are affecting more than 33 million people in Pakistan, the United Nations and the country’s government launched a response plan valued at more than 160 million dollars on Tuesday in Islamabad and Geneva. The figures
Sounding alarm bells, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said he is gravely concerned about fighting near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine. After meeting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Lviv on Thursday, Guterres warned, “Any
The first sea shipment of Ukrainian wheat grain to be used for the World Food Programme’s humanitarian operations in Africa left the Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi in the port city of Yuzhny on Tuesday. The departure of the ship is part of the
Simon Stiell of Grenada has been appointed as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres made the announcement today. The appointment has been made after consultation with the Conference of Parties through
Since the beginning of the year, 168 UN Aid workers have been attacked, resulting in 44 deaths, according to “Humanitarian Outcomes”. “Humanitarian needs have never been higher and aid workers are engaging in increasingly dangerous environments,” Martin Griffiths, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator
