Going Dutch could save us from rising seas
Had nature been left to take its course much of the Netherlands would be a muddy swamp and the tiny coastal nation would never have risen to be the eurozone’s fifth largest economy. More than half of
Netherland
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UNICEF, Netherlands Embassy launch sanitation project
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched a € 5.9 million Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project on the theme “Improving sanitation access in urban Ghana” at Ashaiman near, Accra.
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Weather alerts across western Europe as heatwave sets in
Spell of sweltering weather expected to last several days as temperatures hit 40C and UN urges countries to develop better warning systems European countries including France, Spain, Italy and Britain
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Dutch government ordered to speed up greenhouse gas cuts
A district court ordered the Dutch government on Wednesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions faster than currently planned in a rare use of the legal system to curb global warming. A judge in The Hague
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EU set to meet green energy goal but UK, Netherlands trail
The European Union is collectively on track to achieve its goal of sourcing a fifth of its energy from renewables by 2020, although Britain, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are lagging behind other states,
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Some coal plant exports should get financial aid: EU policy paper
European makers of equipment for coal-fired power plants should receive financial help to export it, an EU discussion paper seen by Reuters says, in a clash with the bloc's declared aim to lead the global
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Himachal inks waste management agreement with Dutch firm
The Urban Development Department of Himachal Pradesh has signed an agreement with a Dutch company Nexus Novus for making itself a “waste free State” in the coming years. It would be a feasibility study
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Welcome to London – the most toxic town on the planet
Oxford Street's more polluted than Beijing and the sky's alive with cranes. Just what kind of city is Boris Johnson creating? Emissions research from King's College London has found nitrogen dioxide
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River protection project to be implemented with ADB credit
The government will implement two separate projects for riverbank protection and strengthening climate resilience and disaster preparedness in eight coastal towns with credit support from the Asian Development
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Bursting the Carbon Bubble: Shell insists fossil fuel reserves won't be 'stranded'
Royal Dutch Shell has dismissed claims that its proven oil and gas reserves will become unusable as a result of climate change regulation; maintaining the view that fossil fuels will continue to play a