Renewable energy continues to bring socioeconomic benefits by creating numerous jobs worldwide, according to the latest figures released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Tuesday. The seventh edition of Renewable Energy and Jobs – (...)
Coronavirus cases in Colombia, which is nearly a month into a national reopening after a long quarantine, surpassed 800,000 on Saturday, a day after deaths from COVID-19 climbed above 25,000, according to Reuters.
The Andean country has 806,038 (...)
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia's sovereign wealth fund, and ChemRar Group have agreed to supply Avifavir, the world's first registered favipiravir-based drug against coronavirus and Russia's first drug approved for the treatment (...)
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Global Compact (UN Global Compact) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have established the COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility, a global initiative and collaboration (...)
In a new World Economic Forum-Ipsos survey of more than 21,000 adults from 28 countries nearly nine in ten say they are ready for their life and the world to change.
72% would like their own lives to change significantly and 86% want the world to (...)
The confirmed coronavirus death toll in Mexico is primed to hit 70,000 when official data is released today, on Friday, a grim milestone for a country among those most affected by the pandemic, Reuters reported.
The spread of the virus has ravaged (...)
Latin America is emerging as a green powerhouse, with some of the strongest renewable capacity growth expected globally in the coming years. With auctions already adopted throughout Latin America, Rystad Energy expects the region's 49 gigawatts (GW) (...)
Many of the emerging world's mass transit systems have seen demand nosedive as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Lockdowns, social distancing and remote working — as well as fears around an increased risk of infection in enclosed spaces — have (...)
The number of deaths from the new coronavirus has surpassed 800,000 around the world, according to official sources at around 1100 GMT on Saturday.
In total, 800,004 fatalities have been recorded globally, out of 23,003,079 declared (...)
Mexico and Argentina have the capacity to produce more than 400 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by Britain's University of Oxford, DPA quoted Sylvia Varela from AstraZeneca as saying on Thursday.
Argentinian President Alberto (...)
It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double.
The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million on Monday, with more than half (...)
In Uruguay, thousands of families earn a precarious livelihood making bricks, using traditional methods that are often inefficient and harmful to the environment.
A UN project, in collaboration with the Uruguayan government, aims to make the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Culture has announced the results of the initial acceptance of applicants for its cultural scholarship program.
A total of 1,157 young Saudi men and women will join the program in its three tracks out of the total (...)
The latest Cost of Living report from global mobility specialist, ECA International reveals UK cities step up the ranking of the most expensive in the world due to the improved strength of the GBP against most currencies.
Reporting the cost of (...)
South Korea plans to spend 36 billion won (US$29.9 million) this year on a new aid program to help developing countries fight the new coronavirus and support their efforts for sustainable development, the foreign ministry said Monday, Yonhap News (...)
Global coal prices collapsed in recent months as the global lockdown took its toll on power demand around the world. Newcastle prices dropped to a low of $50.50/mt in late April and only recovered slightly to $55 Thursday, according to a Bank of (...)
The World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Bahrain Economic Development Board, has launched a new road map for cross-border data flows to help drive global tech-based collaboration.
The framework helps countries and regions embrace the Fourth (...)
On this year's World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5, the UN is drawing links between the health of the planet and human health, and highlighting the importance of protecting biodiversity, the system that supports life.
"At least 70 percent of (...)
The Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and all countries celebrate World Environment Day 2020, which falls on 05 June 2020, and comes this year under Biodiversity theme.
On this occasion, the ministry has broadcast awareness (...)
The Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture along with all countries will celebrate World Environment Day, which falls on June 5, 2020, and comes this year with the theme of Biodiversity.
On this occasion, the ministry has broadcast (...)
On Wednesday, GWEC along with signatories representing all the major wind industry corporates and associations across the world have released a statement highlighting wind power's role in the global economic recovery following the COVID-19 crisis (...)
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for governments to work with the industry on confidence-boosting measures in the face of an anticipated slow recovery in demand for air travel.
"Passenger confidence will suffer a double (...)
The UAE Team Emirates' fastman Fernando Gaviria has thanked the UAE health authorities after receiving the ‘best care and attention in the world' on his road to recovery after being diagnosed with coronavirus last month.
Fernando Gaviria said, "I (...)
The 9th (Extraordinary) OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting was held via webinar, on Thursday, 09 April 2020, under the Chairmanship of HRH Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy, and co-Chair HE Alexander Novak, Minister (...)
OPEC and non-OPEC oil producing countries arrived at an agreement to continue their commitment of sustaining a stable oil market at the 9th Extraordinary OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting that was held via webinar on Thursday.
The meeting was (...)
