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ENVIRONMENT - August 2019

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Apr 23, 2021

India-Germany Sign Agreement to Prevent Plastic Waste Entering Oceans

The Governments of India and Germany signed an agreement for Technical Cooperation in enhancing practices to prevent plastic from entering the marine environment at a virtual ceremony in New Delhi. The project titled 'Cities Combating Plastic Entering the Marine Environment' will be implemented for a period of three and a half years.
The outcome of the project is completely in line with the objectives of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban focusing on sustainable solid waste management and Prime Minister Modi's vision to phase out single-use plastic by 2022.
The agreement was signed between the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH India on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

Apr 22, 2021

Blue Nature Alliance - Global Marine Initiative

The Blue Nature Alliance is a global partnership of five core partners and few other Non-Profit Organisations. The core partners are Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the Pew Charitable Trusts, Minderoo Foundation and Rob and Melani Walton Foundation.
The Blue Alliance was launched in April 2021.
The alliance aims to protect 5% of the world ocean in five years.
The alliance aims to target the following seven ocean locations: Antarctica, Seychelles, Canada, Palau, Western Indian Ocean, Fiji and Tristan da Cunha, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Apr 21, 2021

Hero MotoCorp to Conserve Ecological Aravali Biodiversity Park in Gurugram

Two-wheeler market leader Hero MotoCorp will work towards ecological restoration and conservation of the Aravali Biodiversity Park at Gurugram, in Haryana for the next 10 years.
The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) to this effect.
Under the framework, the company will promote sustainable management of biodiversity, along with protecting the ecosystem of wildlife and the forest reserves.
The Aravali Biodiversity Park, spread over 380 acres contains ecologically restored and semi-arid land vegetation with around 300 native plant species comprising a rich variety of trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers and grasses. Over 183 species of birds can be spotted at the park.

Global CO2 Emissions Set for Second-biggest Spike in History

According to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report, global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are on course to surge by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021, the second-largest increase in history, reversing most of last year's decline caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This would be the biggest annual rise in emissions since 2010, during the carbon-intensive recovery from the global financial crisis.
The IEA's Global Energy Review 2021 estimates that CO2 emissions will increase by almost five per cent this year to 33 billion tonnes, based on the latest national data from around the world as well as real-time analysis of economic growth trends and new energy projects that are set to come online.

Apr 20, 2021

Forgotten' Coffee Plant Rediscovered in West Africa

A forgotten coffee plant that can grow in warmer conditions - and which scientists say could help future-proof the drink against climate change - has been rediscovered in West Africa.
Coffea stenophylla is a wild coffee species from West Africa which, until recently, was thought to be extinct outside Ivory Coast.
The plant was rediscovered growing wild in Sierra Leone, where it was historically grown as a coffee crop about a century ago.
A small sample of coffee beans from Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast were roasted and made into coffee, which was then tasted by a panel of coffee connoisseurs.
They also modelled climate data for the plant, which suggests it can potentially tolerate temperatures at least 6C higher than Arabica.
Seedlings will be planted this year in order to start assessing the wild coffee's potential in safeguarding the future of high-quality coffee.

Apr 19, 2021

Godzilla Shark Discovered in New Mexico Gets Formal Name

The 300-million-year-old shark's teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species.
The ancient chompers looked less like the spear-like rows of teeth of related species. They were squatter and shorter, less than an inch long, around 2 centimeters.
"Great for grasping and crushing prey rather than piercing prey," said discoverer John-Paul Hodnett, who was a graduate student when he unearthed the first fossils of the shark at a dig east of Albuquerque in 2013.
Hodnett named the 6.7-foot (2 meter) monster Dracopristis hoffmanorum, or Hoffman's Dragon Shark, in honour of the New Mexico family that owns the land in the Manzano Mountains where the fossils were found.

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