With only a few thousand tigers remaining in the wild, mainly in Asia, the UN is reiterating its call for zero tolerance for wildlife crime as part of its 2016 Wild for Life campaign.
Many African elephants continued to face serious threats to their survival in 2015 from the illegal trade in ivory and unacceptably high levels of poaching.
Warning of a possible rise in heatwave deaths due to climate change, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction called for measures to reduce mortality from this natural hazard.
Host location/regions: China and Ghana
Timeframe: 2014-2018
Scale: Global
Partners: Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology Energy Commision (EC), UNDP, Ghanaian Counterparts
Cost and source of funding: USD 2.720.000, Donors – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
Implementing Agency: National Development and Reform Commission of China, NDRC, through the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, IGSNRR, CAS
Project Management: UNDP
Sector: Renewable Energy
Type: Transfer of Renewable Energy Technology […]
Host location/regions: China and Zambia
Timeframe: 2014-2018
Scale: Global
Partners: Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology Zambian Ministry of Mines Zambian Energy and Water Development
Cost and source of funding: USD 2,624,400, Donors – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
Implementing Agency: National Development and Reform Commission of China, NDRC, through the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, IGSNRR, CAS
Project Management: UNDP
Sector: Renewable […]
Host location/regions: China, Mauritania, Nepal and Seychelles / Asia-Pacific and Africa
Timeframe: 2013-2017
Scale: Global
Partners: Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Seychelles, the Ministry of Population and Environment of Nepal and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Mauritania
Cost and source of funding: GEF Special Climate Change Fund: US$ 5 Million + US$ 5 […]
Love 1980’s pop music and the Sustainable Development Goals? The United Nations Information Centre in Tokyo (UNIC Tokyo) is raising awareness of the SDGs with a new music video featuring more than 100 Japanese celebrities dancing along to 80’s idol Yu Hayami’s “Boogie Oogie Love Train” while holding the 17 colourful SDG icons.
The music video premiered on […]
Mangroves are rare and vital ecosystems that help to protect coastlines but their survival is being jeopardized, said UNESCO, calling for mangroves' protection.
The World Meteorological Organization will set up a committee to examine whether a 54 degrees Celsius temperature recently recorded in Kuwait has set a record for the Eastern hemisphere.
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