Mercury: UN to hold first COP on Minamata Convention in Sept.2017
Post Views: 1,285 Three years and two months after the global community adopted the Minamata Convention on mercury, a global
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Nigeria, four others ban Europe’s dirty fuel imports
Post Views: 1,170 Five West African countries namely Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have agreed to ban importation
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Scientists, laureates urge Nobel Prize to divest from fossil fuels
Post Views: 1,070 Nobel Prize winners and scientists have urged the Nobel Foundation to divest its $420 million endowment from
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Scientists urge India to back plan to address pollution crisis as New Delhi chokes
Post Views: 1,077 Scientists and air pollution experts are calling for Indian government officials to back a ten-point plan to
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Group raises alarm over tobacco epidemic as parties meet
Post Views: 1,067 As the seventh Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) kicks
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Toxic air threatens two billion children worldwide-UNICEF
Post Views: 1,030 A new report released today in New York by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed
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Ships get 2020 date to comply with low sulphur fuel oil requirement
Post Views: 1,062 The decision to implement a global sulphur cap of 0.50% m/m (mass/mass) in 2020 was taken by
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Goodbye HFCs, welcome ammonia or carbon dioxide
Post Views: 1,203 With the landmark agreement reached by  nearly 200 countries on Saturday in Kigali, Rwanda to bid the
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Catholic institutions pledge to divest from fossil fuels
Post Views: 1,015 Global effort to divest from use of fossil fuel has received a boost as the Catholic Institutions
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Latin American, Caribbean region target carbon pricing to reduce GHG emissions
Post Views: 1,113 Countries in Latin American and the Caribbean region are among the most ambitious in terms of combating
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