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  • COP21 Roundtable Ethiopia, Guyana & Pakistan turn climate change concerns into action

    PAKISTAN, 2015/12/02

  • Working Together For Migratory Birds And People Across Africa And Eurasia

    BOTSWANA, 2015/11/17 One lesson that has been well and truly learned in nature conservation is that for policies to be really effective nations have to collaborate to address common problems. Within the UN system it is as well recognized that this applies to the different Programmes, Conventions and Agreements set up over the years. That each of these bodies has a distinct niche and a clear role does not justify a bunker mentality. By synergizing, cooperating and collaborating they can find common cause with natural allies and seek compromises with those whose agendas do not necessarily match their own. AEWA, the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, is a prime example of an organization that embodies this approach.

  • Population resettlement in china

    CHINA, 2015/10/03 According to the central Chinese government, additional than 10 million citizens will have to be resettled by 2050 to solve rural poverty and environmental degradation problems in China. This number does not include the 7 million people that have by presently been resettled over the last 30 years or so. The massive scale of these people resettlement programs was confirmed by President Xi Jinping during his recent visits to some of the provinces most concerned, where he called upon regional Party and national authorities to ‘implement with full force’ the environmental resettlement projects in order to ‘uphold both ecological and development standards’.

  • Singapore stands ready to support Indonesia's haze mitigation efforts

    INDONESIA, 2015/09/30 Singapore's Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen reiterated that Singapore Armed Forces stands ready to support Indonesia's haze mitigation efforts if and at the same time as activated, local media reported on Tuesday. Minister Ng stressed that it's up to the Indonesians to decide whether what Singapore is offering is adequate during his visit in Indonesia. Singapore had before offered to send C-130 aircraft for cloud seeding and Chinook helicopters with large water buckets to douse the fires in Indonesia, but Indonesia has rejected Singapore 's offer for help.

  • Myanmar, China to cooperate for curbing illegal timber production

    CHINA, 2015/09/30 Myanmar and China will entirely cooperate in addressing the issue of illegal timber production, Myanmar Environmental Conservation and Forest Minister U Win Tun told a consultation workshop on Myanmar-China Timber Trade Stakeholders in Nay Pyi Taw Thursday. While taking measures in curbing illegal timber production, enhancement of legal trade on wood and wood products inclunding long-term development with the sector should as well be addressed, said U Win Tun. Fu Gui, an official with the National Forestry Government of China, as well stressed the need for deepened cooperation than ever in getting rid of illegal timber production.

  • Japan to upgrade quake monitoring system in Turkmenistan

    JAPAN, 2015/07/30 The earthquake monitoring system will be modernized in Ashgabat, “Neutral Turkmenistan” newspaper reported. The implementation of this project is envisaged in a separate paragraph of the joint statement on new partnership between Turkmenistan and Japan. The document was signed by Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

  • Disaster claims lives of seven in Tajikistan

    TAJIKISTAN , 2015/07/27 Natural disasters hitting various areas of Tajikistan on Tuesday night claimed the lives of seven people, according to the new reports. The government of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) in eastern Tajikistan reported on the aftermath of a series of recent mudflows and floods. The number of victims reached six people in the Vanch district, according to the GBAR government. Additional than 80 % of communities in the GBAR have been left without power, according to the United Nations Rapid Emergency Assessment and Coordination Team estimates.

  • EU seeks to up assistance for CA countries' environment programs

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2015/07/09 The European Union intends to increase its assistance for environment programs of the Central Asian nations. This remark was made by Yuri Sterk, the chief of the EU delegation in Uzbekistan, at a conference of the EU - Central Asian working group on environmental management and climate change held in Tashkent on July 8. "Central Asia is a region which is faced with world environmental issues. Today we are holding consultations with the nations of the region on the development of a new regional environmental program of the EU," he said.

  • Green bonds set to flourish in Asia as China plans to open markets

    CHINA, 2015/06/08 Asia may any minute at this time host a boom in green bond activity, according to leading international deficit market players. Last week, Moody’s predicted there would be a surge in issuance from India and China, and Goldman Sachs set a new target to arrange $1bn in deficit securities to finance clean energy projects in Japan. A statement by credit agency Moody’s said developing nations may help the world green bond market reach $100bn this year, triple the $37bn of 2014, citing estimates from the Climate Bonds Initiative. The statement highlighted India’s Yes Bank, which sold its initial green bond to fund low-carbon power projects before this year. Additional data on this transaction can be found in Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s recent note on renewable energy financing in India.

  • Turkmenistan OKs Caspian Sea protocol

    TURKMENISTAN, 2015/06/06 Turkmenistan’s parliament, the Majlis, adopted a resolution ratifying the Protocol for Protection of the Caspian Sea against Pollution from Land Based Sources and Activities. The document is a protocol to the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Caspian Sea’s Marine Environment as well known as the Tehran Convention signed in November 2003. The Tehran Convention is the initial legally binding agreement ratified by all the coastal states.
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