UNV coordinates International Volunteer Day on 5 December every year to recognize and promote the tireless work, not just of UN Volunteers, but of volunteers across the globe. Every day, volunteers dedicate time and effort to ensure the inclusion of those often left behind, drive climate action and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Volunteerism […]
Venture capital impact investment in Saudi Arabia reached a new high in 2021 in both total numbers of transactions and capital deployed, according to a report produced by MAGNiTT and sponsored by Wa’ed, Saudi Aramco’s entrepreneurship arm. Impact investments aim to generate a measurable social and environmental benefit alongside a financial return, Arab News reports. […]
Volunteers in Mosul on November 25 planted the first trees in a campaign to green the war-ravaged city in northern Iraq. With funding from the French government, the climate project is an initiative of the Mosul Eye collective and has the support of local authorities, Rudaw states. “Such a beautiful day to inaugurate #GreenMosul at […]
Saudi Arabia’s southern Soudah mountains are getting a further boost to habitat protection while welcoming tourists and visitors with the signing of a new deal between Soudah Development Co. and the UN Mountain Partnership. Located in the Asir region in the southwest of the Kingdom, the juniper-covered mountains of Soudah are home to the highest […]
Fifty years ago, on 15 September 1971, a ship named the Greenpeace set out to confront and stop US nuclear weapons testing at Amchitka, one of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. On the organization’s 50th anniversary, the former head of photography at Greenpeace International told The Guardian about the motives behind the creation of […]
“Once, by giving flowers to your grandmother, you received plus 145 points for karma. Today – minus four: for unintentionally supporting underground workshops, pesticides and the head of a company that committed a crime against many people and one horse,” says the protagonist of the series “In a better world.” Today, environmental issues are indeed […]
A new department under the name of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and diversity and inclusion (DI) framework was announced by Muscat Stock Exchange (MSX) on November 14, Times of Oman reports. The exchange has also appointed Majida bint Sheikhan Al Mamari as the head of this initiative. The setting up of this section comes […]
DHL Global Forwarding and CFC Fert/Evergrow have partnered to develop exclusive logistics solutions for the latter, covering all aspects of the company’s logistics needs across the globe in line with their growth plans, GDNonline reports. DHL Global Forwarding will manage all logistical movements, as well as import requirements across CFC Fert/Evergrow ’s operations globally. In […]
Middle East business leaders and decision-makers consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives to be a top business priority, focusing on energy management and occupant safety and well-being, GDNonline states. According to a survey commissioned by Honeywell on building sustainability and energy management, more than 300 business leaders and decision-makers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia […]
On Friday, November 26, the environmental group Extinction Rebellion blocked the entrances to 13 Amazon distribution centers in the UK (including its largest one, in the Scottish town of Dunfermline) and one each in Germany and the Netherlands, the BBC and Reuters reported. Police arrested five people at a protest in Dartford and 17 in […]
