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UN development chief meets communities grappling with scarce and vulnerable water resources in Burkina Faso
Wrapping up a three-day visit to the country, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark met today with a rural community in Burkina Faso which is bearing the brunt of the effects of environmental degradation and deforestation in a country where scarce water…
Water resilience in Africa at forefront of COP22 agenda
Several African ministers in charge of water took part in a side event organised in the Moroccan pavilion yesterday during which they stressed the pertinence of putting water issues at the top of the COP22 agenda in light of the…
Serbia has remarkable wind-based energy generation potential
Energy portal had chance to meet in Novi Sad Mr Henk van den Dool, ambassador of Netherlands in Serbia. We talk to him during the fair “International days of energetics and investment” which were held in March. He presented energy…
UNIDO hands out cleaner production certificates in Bosnia and Herzegovina
JAHORINA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2016 – Twenty national experts and 10 company representatives working in different sectors in Bosnia and Herzegovina last week received certificates of cleaner production from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). They were trained…
Canada to host World Environment Day in 2017
Canada last week demonstrated its commitment to environmental action as Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and UN Environment chief Erik Solheim announced that Canada will host World Environment Day in 2017. The UN Environment-led global event, the…
The key challenge for Serbia is to move toward low carbon economy
The author of the text: Miroslav Tadić, UNDP Based on the state of environmental infrastructure in the Republic of Serbia and the extrapolation of the situation in the countries that have recently become the members of the EU, it is…
Adapting to a Drier World
Water, which covers more than two-thirds of the planet’s surface, is fundamental to life. It is also essential to energy production. Water is critical to pumping oil and natural gas out of the ground, thanks to hydraulic fracturing. Hydropower dams…