UN Children's Fund (2024-03-06). ADB and UNICEF join hands to strengthen climate resilient water and sanitation services in two major cities of Pakistan. reliefweb.int Country: Pakistan | Source: UN Children's Fund | New partnership will benefit up to 1.5 million people | Islamabad, Pakistan, 5 March 2024 — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today signed a Letter of Understanding (LOU) to collaborate on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and solid waste management interventions under an ADB-funded project in the cities of Rawalpindi and Bahawalpur in Punjab province of Pakistan. | The agreement was signed by Yong Ye, ADB Country Director for Pakistan, and Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF's Representative in Pakistan, at UNICEF's Pa…

Bochen Han (2024-03-06). Outgoing US climate envoy John Kerry says he will stay involved, hopes to maintain dialogue with Chinese counterpart. scmp.com John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua reached a bilateral agreement in November that helped catalyse the "Dubai consensus" between nearly 200 countries to transition away from fossil fuels.

ecns.cn (2024-03-06). Insights丨Foreign experts: China leads the world in new green technologies. ecns.cn China News Network had exclusive conversations with Joseph Dellatte, research fellow for climate, energy and environment at Institut Montaigne, and Jeff Ruffolo, a U.S. China expert.

latintimes (2024-03-06). Icy Reception For Plan To 'Save' Venezuela's Last Glacier. latintimes.com While glacier melt is a global phenomenon blamed on climate change, Venezuela is the first country in the Andes mountain range — which stretches all the way to Chile in the south — to lose all its glaciers.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-03-06). MEP Rob Roos: The elites have decided we are "living wrongly" and "everything must change" in the name of "climate change" expose-news.com The ruling class, which controls politics, wants farmers to disappear by crushing them with one regulation after another and then concluding trade agreements with the entire world where they see fit, all …

Rhoda Wilson (2024-03-06). Douglas Brodie: Net zero and the Hunga Tongo climate change chicanery. expose-news.com In March last year, Douglas Brodie, famous for his emails to the Members of the Scottish Parliament ("MSPs") downed tools "barring a future bad turn of public events for the much worse." …

Rhoda Wilson (2024-03-06). UK's planned energy transition to net zero is an unprecedented act of economic self-harm. expose-news.com In the run-up to Budget Day today, 6 March, a new paper by a former World Bank economist and published by The Global Warming Policy Foundation warns that the UK's current decarbonisation …

Peter Christie (2024-03-06). Global Pet Craze Is Becoming a Major Contributor to the Extinction Crisis. counterpunch.org In 2019, an independent international science group—the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—announced that about 1 million species around the world are threatened with extinction. The number, based on a consensus by hundreds of experts and other researchers from 50 countries, made headlines around the world when it was included in the group's global

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-03-06). What's the difference between kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the difference between two kidney disorders — kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease. Your kidneys are situated in the back of your abdomen under your lower ribs, one on each side of your spine. One of the important jobs of the kidneys is to clean the blood. As blood moves through the body, it picks up extra fluid, chemicals and waste….

noreply (2024-03-06). Indian Home Minister; Trial Court Judges; Two Supreme Court Judges; Sanctioning Authority Stand Convicted in Public's Eyes! — Professor G. N. Saibaba's Acquittal. pilwatchgroup.blogspot.com by | P.S. Sahni & | Shobha Aggarwal | | Countercurrents.org had published our article — within | 9 days of Saibaba's arrest (euphemism for abduction) on 9 May 2014. The article | titled: | "Professor G.N. Saibaba — A Prisoner of Conscience" | was published on 18 May 2014. See Ten years of his life — as | also of others incarcerated with him — has gone waste. Their careers have been | ruined; family members devastated and underwent extreme economic hardships. The | acq…

Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. (2024-03-05). Pipeline Fighters Block Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction. popularresistance.org Roanoke County, VA — On Monday morning at 5 AM, two people locked themselves to a broken down vehicle on Honeysuckle Rd, blocking Mountain Valley Pipeline's access to the pipeline easement, a work yard, and 2 access roads. They held banners and signs reading, "OLDER THAN THE HILLS – WATER IS LIFE," "DEFEND THIS LAND," and "WATER IS PRECIOUS." Nearly 20 people gathered on site in support of these folks and to resist the Mountain Valley Pipeline. | River, an 81-year-old lifelong environmentalist, and Andy, a 63-year-old grandfather and climate activist, prevented pipeline construction on Poor Mountain for 11…

ecns.cn (2024-03-05). Insights‰∏®French climate expert: China is a nice example of decarbonization using renewables. ecns.cn The green development continues to be a hot topic of the Two Sessions. In recent years, China's new energy industry has advanced by leaps and bounds, with new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products becoming new growth poles of China's exports. As the Two Sessions kicked off, China News Network invited Joseph Dellatte, research fellow for climate, energy and environment at Institut Montaigne, to look ahead China's development of renewable energies. Dellatte noted that global carbon neutrality"ÄÄcannot be achieved without China achieving its own carbon neutrality. He added tha…

teleSUR (2024-03-04). Bahamas for Greater Cooperation in Face of Climate Change. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Philip Davis, stressed the urgency of greater multilateral cooperation to address climate change at the VIII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). | RELATED: | "We have reached a stage where, as a community of states and as a regional bloc, we must think differently about the structure of our multilateral cooperation, as we have a unique opportunity to participate collectivel…

David Skripac (2024-03-05). Our Species Is Being Genetically Modified. Are We Witnessing Humanity's March Toward Extinction? Viruses Are Our Friends, Not Our Foes. globalresearch.ca

EcoWaste Coalition (2024-03-05). Warning Out on Nonstop Online Sale of Imported Leaded Paints. pressenza.com 4 March 2024, Quezon City. Aside from mercury-containing skin-lightening products, online shopping platforms are also rife with imported paint products with undisclosed concentrations of lead in brazen violation of the country's national ban on such products. | Coinciding with the 3.3. online shopping sales yesterday, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition monitored and found dozens of product listings for spray paint brands with one or more colors containing lead above the 90 parts per million (ppm) as confirmed by laboratory tests commissioned by the group. | It will be recalled that DENR A.O. 2013-24, or…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-03-05). Planet celebrates World Energy Efficiency Day. plenglish.com Vienna, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) World Energy Efficiency Day is celebrated every March 5 to reflect and raise awareness of the importance of rational energy use, as its waste would have irreparable consequences.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-03-05). What's the difference between kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the difference between two kidney disorders — kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease. Your kidneys are situated in the back of your abdomen under your lower ribs, one on each side of your spine. One of the important jobs of the kidneys is to clean the blood. As blood moves through the body, it picks up extra fluid, chemicals and waste….

eng.belta.by (2024-03-05). PM: Belarusian healthcare system has no time to waste given scale of tasks. eng.belta.by The agenda of the meeting included the changes in the structure of the central office of the Healthcare Ministry, the pharmaceutical industry, the regulation of prices for paid services in healthcare, in particular dental services, the experiment on the provision of paid services by state healthcare institutions on weekends and holidays.