04 march 2025 - 07:43:37
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The booming ocean economy sustains hundreds of millions of people, but it is being squeezed dry [...] Full text...
15 january 2025 - 05:52:36
New York, US (PANA) - The President of the UN General Assembly Philémon Yang presented a detailed vision of his [...] Full text...
02 december 2024 - 05:32:40
Busan, South Korea (PANA) - Countries negotiating a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution concluded their fifth session in the [...] Full text...
25 november 2024 - 17:40:19
Busan, South Korea (PANA) - Talks began in Busan, South Korea, on Monday aiming to clinch a legally binding deal [...] Full text...
03 november 2024 - 05:36:05
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Jennifer [...] Full text...
30 october 2024 - 06:32:52
Cali, Colombia (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called for decisive action to restore harmony with nature, warning [...] Full text...
21 october 2024 - 10:46:08
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Thandi Moraka, is leading a South [...] Full text...
18 october 2024 - 12:57:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Burkina Faso Burkina Faso has formally accepted the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, which [...] Full text...
14 october 2024 - 16:38:47
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council on Monday approved conclusions in view of the Conference of Parties on the [...] Full text...
26 september 2024 - 06:08:18
New York, US (PANA) - As wars and crises dominate global headlines, leaders from small island developing States used the [...] Full text...
27 august 2024 - 07:08:16
New York, US (PANA) - The level of the sea globally is rising faster and higher than ever before, creating [...] Full text...
14 july 2024 - 05:51:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Dust levels worldwide decreased slightly in 2023, the UN’s weather and climate agency has said, but [...] Full text...
08 july 2024 - 20:08:14
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Last month was the hottest June since records began and the thirteenth month in a row to [...] Full text...
06 june 2024 - 05:38:41
New York, United States (PANA) - “It’s climate crunch time” when it comes to tackling rising carbon emissions, the UN [...] Full text...
13 may 2024 - 19:18:59
Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Africa is the pillar of climate action, said Nassim Oulmane, Director of the Technology, Climate Change [...] Full text...
19 march 2024 - 08:01:36
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius on Tuesday launched the PIM Recycling Ltd In the context of the Global Recycling Day, aiming [...] Full text...
27 february 2024 - 05:45:12
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The latest meeting of the “world’s parliament on the environment” opened in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday [...] Full text...
23 february 2024 - 06:12:13
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea coupled with wider geopolitical and climate-related crises, are [...] Full text...
25 january 2024 - 13:08:39
Washington, United States (PANA) - The World Bank has priced a seven-year $100 million, principal-protected Plastic Waste Reduction-Linked Bond, providing [...] Full text...
30 december 2023 - 07:37:13
New York, US (PANA) - Halting unsustainable consumption and production, which have contributed to the decline of biodiversity and the [...] Full text...
29 december 2023 - 08:21:15
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Maritime Business Chamber (MBC) says the turmoil in the Middle East, [...] Full text...
10 december 2023 - 17:42:47
Dubai, UAE (PANA) - One innovative solution to some of the most pressing global challenges humanity is facing today can [...] Full text...
19 november 2023 - 16:33:53
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister for Marine Resources in the Government of National Unity, Adel Sultan, is attending [...] Full text...
21 september 2023 - 08:58:37
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius on Wednesday signed the BBNJ Treaty on the protection of Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond [...] Full text...
04 september 2023 - 20:20:57
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – African leaders meeting in Nairobi for the first ever African Climate Summit have outlined bold reforms, [...] Full text...
26 july 2023 - 06:42:29
Rome, Italy (PANA) - A full-scale Africa-led agrifood systems transformation will not be possible without game changing solutions, greater investments [...] Full text...
11 july 2023 - 06:04:26
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global sea surface temperatures reached a record high in May, June, and July – and the [...] Full text...
30 june 2023 - 05:35:07
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and four partner agencies have been tasked with leading [...] Full text...
08 june 2023 - 05:33:01
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for greater action to protect oceans in his message to [...] Full text...
05 june 2023 - 06:47:21
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – Focusing on solutions to plastic pollution, Côte d'Ivoire is on Monday hosting World Environment Day [...] Full text...
05 june 2023 - 06:06:13
New York, US (PANA) - As international negotiators committed to hammering out a draft treaty by November on ending plastic [...] Full text...
02 june 2023 - 05:57:55
Geneva, Switzerland (PAMA) - The world must combat the “toxic tidal wave” of plastic pollution that threatens human rights, two [...] Full text...
27 may 2023 - 06:06:00
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - A senior US diplomat will visit Mauritius, Comoros and Seychelles from 29 May to 1 [...] Full text...
09 may 2023 - 07:23:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The ocean can provide vast opportunities for developing countries to build more innovative and resilient economies, [...] Full text...
16 april 2023 - 15:25:54
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nassim Oulmane of the Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management Division of the Economic Commission [...] Full text...
14 march 2023 - 06:40:43
New York, US (PANA) - World leaders need to listen to and act on solid scientific guidance to urgently reduce [...] Full text...
06 march 2023 - 11:49:57
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has congratulated member countries for finalising a text to ensure the [...] Full text...
09 february 2023 - 13:12:23
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia has signed a landmark agreement with the World Bank’s reduce carbon emissions by tackling [...] Full text...
02 february 2023 - 05:56:30
New York, US (PANA) - A UN-led plan to tackle climate change by radically improving the way heat-trapping atmospheric pollutants [...] Full text...
24 january 2023 - 06:05:19
Praia, Cabo Verde (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres, on the last day of his visit to Cabo Verde on Monday, [...] Full text...
09 november 2022 - 05:28:12
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (PANA) - The second day of COP27’s Climate Implementation Summit saw world leaders raise their voices for concrete [...] Full text...
27 october 2022 - 05:48:45
New York, US (PANA) - Atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases warming our planet - carbon dioxide, methane [...] Full text...
29 june 2022 - 05:38:25
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in Portugal on Tuesday on a State visit at the invitation of President [...] Full text...
28 june 2022 - 19:54:24
Lisbon, Spain (PANA) - With the livelihoods of about 40 per cent of the world’s population living at or near [...] Full text...
27 june 2022 - 05:11:55
New York, US (PANA) - The world must do more to stop the dramatic decline in ocean health, UN Secretary-General [...] Full text...
21 june 2022 - 09:26:01
Paris, France (PANA) - The ocean holds the keys to an equitable and sustainable development path for all.
This is the [...] Full text...
01 june 2022 - 23:58:10
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - President Uhuru Kenyatta will co-chair a two-day meeting, dubbed ‘Stockholm+50’ with the host Prime Minister, Magdalena [...] Full text...
31 may 2022 - 06:00:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The tobacco industry damages both the environment and human health, and needs to be more accountable [...] Full text...
22 may 2022 - 08:04:16
New York, US (PANA) - As the world marks International Day for Biological Diversity on Sunday, the UN Secretary-General has [...] Full text...
10 may 2022 - 05:13:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - There is a 50:50 chance of average global temperature reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels [...] Full text...
23 april 2022 - 06:59:47
New York, US (PANA) - Marking International Mother Earth Day, UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid, on Friday called for [...] Full text...
15 april 2022 - 06:51:43
Paris, France (PANA) - The world’s best-known coral reefs could be extinct by the end of the century unless we [...] Full text...
07 april 2022 - 05:39:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As World Health Day is marked on Thursday, the UN health agency has made an urgent [...] Full text...
21 march 2022 - 16:21:26
Diamniadio, Senegal (PANA) - The Emperor of Japan, Naruhito, on Monday hoped that discussions of the World Water Forum would [...] Full text...
14 march 2022 - 05:12:03
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States (US) and African Union Commission (AUC) have reaffirmed their strong commitment to [...] Full text...
05 march 2022 - 14:58:25
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya’s Nzambi Matee beams brightly, thrusting a brick forth to coincide with the click of the [...] Full text...
12 february 2022 - 07:28:52
Brest, France (PANA) - The planet is facing the triple crises of climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution, Secretary-General António [...] Full text...
08 december 2021 - 09:00:38
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Plastic pollution has become pervasive in agricultural soils, posing a threat to food security, people’s health, [...] Full text...
01 november 2021 - 19:00:55
Glasgow, Scotland (PANA) - As the World Leaders Summit opened on day two of COP26, UN chief António Guterres sent [...] Full text...
22 october 2021 - 06:00:58
New York, US (PANA) - Plastic pollution in oceans and other bodies of water continues to grow sharply and could more than double by 2030, according [...] Full text...
19 october 2021 - 10:37:31
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Minister of Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change, Mr Kavydass Ramano, on Tuesday [...] Full text...
13 october 2021 - 19:02:06
New York, US (PANA) - Many developing nations remain unprotected against disaster, even though it is accepted that building community resilience [...] Full text...
12 october 2021 - 10:25:12
New York, US (PANA) - With more than a million species at risk of extinction, countries must work now to achieve a sustainable future for [...] Full text...
04 september 2021 - 13:54:30
Gaborone, Botswana - The bulk of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region is likely to receive normal to above-normal [...] Full text...
31 august 2021 - 05:27:13
New York, US (PANA) - With one million species at risk of extinction, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called [...] Full text...
12 august 2021 - 08:29:09
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union has celebrated the African Day of the Seas and Oceans with a [...] Full text...
09 august 2021 - 10:57:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - To get the world racing against the climate crisis clock, the UN Office for the Coordination [...] Full text...
09 august 2021 - 09:33:42
New York, US (PANA) - Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least [...] Full text...
23 june 2021 - 10:06:17
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya was on Tuesday elected as a member of the Executive Council of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic [...] Full text...
22 june 2021 - 10:06:09
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union will increase its role as a global maritime security provider since it depends [...] Full text...
09 june 2021 - 05:59:25
New York, US (PANA) - Ending the “war on nature” must be part of global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, [...] Full text...
05 june 2021 - 10:06:06
New York, US (PANA) - Heads of government, religious leaders, activists and artists joined the United Nations on Friday in [...] Full text...
04 june 2021 - 19:08:34
New York, US (PANA) - Amidst the triple environmental threat of biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution, Secretary-General António [...] Full text...
22 may 2021 - 06:46:19
New York, US (PANA) - Humanity is “waging a war on nature”, threatening biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution, [...] Full text...
26 april 2021 - 15:21:09
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa has saluted the directors of South Africa's documentary, My Octopus Teacher, [...] Full text...
22 april 2021 - 06:28:48
New York, US (PANA) - Greater understanding of the ocean is essential if the world is to recover better from [...] Full text...
09 april 2021 - 07:12:57
Washington, US (PANA) - The world is “a long way off” from meeting the goals of the landmark Paris Agreement [...] Full text...
09 april 2021 - 06:10:51
Rome, Italy (PANA) - A UN-backed initiative aims to turn the tide on marine litter, in line with the global [...] Full text...
05 february 2021 - 13:30:49
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Leading South African advocate Thuli Madonsela who helped draft the final Constitution, which was [...] Full text...
04 february 2021 - 05:50:40
Paris, France (PANA) - January marked the beginning of what many within the UN and beyond view as “the most [...] Full text...
22 december 2020 - 17:04:55
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Every one of the world’s coral reefs could bleach by the end of the century, unless [...] Full text...
02 december 2020 - 17:50:56
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has described the fight against the climate crisis as the top [...] Full text...
10 november 2020 - 15:59:49
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Kane Hamidou Baba, leader of the Coalition Vivre Ensemble (CVE), who failed in the Mauritanian presidential [...] Full text...
10 november 2020 - 06:02:25
New York, US (PANA) - Although more Governments and businesses are committing to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the world [...] Full text...
04 november 2020 - 14:07:48
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Tuesday said Mauritius is determined to pursue its fight [...] Full text...
16 october 2020 - 12:41:03
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 400 young Africans were on Friday honoured for their leadership in addressing plastic pollution [...] Full text...
06 october 2020 - 12:46:01
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Transformational change is needed in the way countries manage forests and their biodiversity, people produce and [...] Full text...
30 september 2020 - 22:44:36
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - World leaders attending a virtual UN General Assembly Summit on the environment on Wednesday decried the [...] Full text...
10 september 2020 - 08:27:21
Gland, Switzerland (PANA) – Global populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have suffered an average two-thirds decline in [...] Full text...
10 september 2020 - 04:43:32
New York, US (PANA) - Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere are at record levels, and emissions that [...] Full text...
25 august 2020 - 07:40:49
Stockholm, Sweden (PANA) - With a rich and unique history spanning 29 years, World Water Week has developed into the [...] Full text...
14 july 2020 - 19:30:01
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The third edition of the World Sea Forum will kick off Wednesday in Bizerte, Tunisia, an [...] Full text...
23 june 2020 - 17:29:15
Paris, France (PANA) - COVID-19 is threatening to create an ocean data blindspot that could disrupt weather forecasts and hamper [...] Full text...
06 june 2020 - 05:43:55
Paris, France (PANA) - The COVID-19 health crisis should be seen as a clarion call to “fundamentally rethink our relationship” [...] Full text...
05 june 2020 - 16:55:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Last month was the warmest May on record and carbon dioxide levels also hit a new [...] Full text...
25 may 2020 - 16:31:51
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Cold front from the Atlantic Ocean is expected to pass over the southern half of Africa, [...] Full text...
23 april 2020 - 04:40:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the global economic crisis caused by the [...] Full text...
22 april 2020 - 18:49:12
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) joins the global community in celebrating 50 years of Earth [...] Full text...
25 february 2020 - 18:44:40
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohamed, has listed three imperatives to be [...] Full text...
25 february 2020 - 13:35:47
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said the sustainable development goals (SDGs) agenda is not [...] Full text...
11 january 2020 - 07:50:29
UAE, Abu Dhabi (PANA) - Inaction when it comes to fighting back against damaging climate change is not an option, [...] Full text...
29 december 2019 - 19:13:13
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Almost two thirds of sewage and human waste is unsafely managed in the global south, a [...] Full text...
10 december 2019 - 09:26:02
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana's Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Philda Nani Kereng, is joining other world environment [...] Full text...
30 november 2019 - 13:17:15
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - As the global climate emergency intensifies and greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow, a group of [...] Full text...
25 november 2019 - 18:00:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, [...] Full text...
19 november 2019 - 13:21:53
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The Council of the European Union on Tuesday adopted conclusions on oceans and seas, stressing that [...] Full text...
19 november 2019 - 12:02:04
Rome, Italy (PANA) - A new scientific paper written for the High Level Panel a Sustainable Ocean Economy finds that, with better [...] Full text...
22 october 2019 - 14:39:08
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on Tuesday congratulated Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his re-election.
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21 october 2019 - 09:32:15
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegalese President Macky Sall is leaving Dakar on Monday for Oslo, Norway's capital, to take part [...] Full text...
17 october 2019 - 12:26:59
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall will take part in the sixth World Conference on the Protection of [...] Full text...
26 september 2019 - 07:30:46
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the unwillingness of rich nations to engage in equitable and fair [...] Full text...
22 september 2019 - 10:12:57
New York, US (PANA) - Students and young activists on Saturday threw down the gauntlet to world leaders heading to [...] Full text...
19 september 2019 - 15:19:20
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia will participate in world clean-up day on Saturday, and millions of people in over [...] Full text...
17 september 2019 - 23:06:57
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The Gabonese capital, Libreville, will from 17 - 19 September host the 22nd session of the [...] Full text...
12 september 2019 - 05:53:25
New York, US (PANA) - The current worldwide sustainable development model is threatening to reverse years of progress, if strategies don’t [...] Full text...
31 august 2019 - 16:40:27
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African countries have been urged to invest in sustainable Blue Economy which has been recognized as [...] Full text...
29 august 2019 - 17:32:04
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's ongoing roll out of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) programme and the development of a [...] Full text...
25 august 2019 - 14:58:31
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Biarritz, France on Sunday for the G7 [...] Full text...
21 august 2019 - 05:56:21
New York, US (PANA) - Deteriorating water quality worldwide is slashing the economic potential of heavily polluted areas, according to [...] Full text...
30 july 2019 - 00:33:59
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A nation-wide tree planting initiative targeting 200 million saplings a day kicked off here on [...] Full text...
22 july 2019 - 16:58:11
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Representatives of several African countries have met in the capital city of Gaborone in Botswana to [...] Full text...
02 july 2019 - 12:24:32
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Second Conference on the Convention on Cooperation in the Protection, Management and Development of [...] Full text...
24 june 2019 - 10:34:18
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Of all the problems that Cyril Ramaphosa inherited when he was elected President (and there [...] Full text...
18 june 2019 - 15:26:41
Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) - A high officials meeting discussing regional cooperation and preceding the second edition of the Indian Ocean [...] Full text...
08 june 2019 - 16:23:11
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The celebration of the 2019 edition of World Ocean Day took place Saturday in the historic [...] Full text...
25 may 2019 - 14:24:28
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Commission held celebrations to mark the African Day on Saturday with a [...] Full text...
21 may 2019 - 10:16:49
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Cracking down on plastic pollution, the European Council on Tuesday adopted a directive which introduces new [...] Full text...
10 may 2019 - 15:24:04
Bonn, Germany (PANA) - Plastic pollution poses serious health risks to wildlife globally, affecting a wide range of species including [...] Full text...
25 april 2019 - 15:03:25
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwean government has warned citizens near flood prone areas to be on high alert and [...] Full text...
19 april 2019 - 08:47:52
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The threat of protest action at a major Cape Town informal settlement has resulted in [...] Full text...
29 march 2019 - 17:35:17
Abidjan, Côte d 'Ivoire (PANA) - The second Africa Blue Economy Forum (ABEF), which will discuss the opportunities offered in [...] Full text...
27 march 2019 - 15:25:01
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda will soon adopt a law regulating the use of non-biodegradable plastics and the distribution of [...] Full text...
19 march 2019 - 20:30:44
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The full scale of the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Idai in south-west Africa is becoming [...] Full text...
18 february 2019 - 10:31:01
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African government has responded to the massive offshore gas find which was announced [...] Full text...
11 february 2019 - 23:07:49
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- Gambian First Lady Fatoumata Bah-Barrow has been selected by the AU Commission as the Regional Chair [...] Full text...
09 february 2019 - 12:39:00
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union Commission has entered an agreement with a Kigali-based think-tank specializing [...] Full text...
06 february 2019 - 22:15:25
New York, US (PANA) - In the wake of data released by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), showing [...] Full text...
16 january 2019 - 14:45:51
Lamu, Kenya (PANA) – A traditional dhow sailing boat made entirely from plastic trash collected from Kenya’s beaches and towns [...] Full text...
15 january 2019 - 07:27:55
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Ocean Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries and Shipping Minister Mr Premdut Koonjoo, on Monday urged [...] Full text...
19 december 2018 - 10:38:09
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) announced on Wednesday that it is taking action to reduce plastic pollution [...] Full text...
03 december 2018 - 17:45:10
Katowice, Poland (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday told over 150 world leaders gathered for climate action that [...] Full text...
28 november 2018 - 18:02:51
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – African leaders took the front-line position to urge the world to take serious steps to conserve [...] Full text...
27 november 2018 - 17:31:29
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, among world leaders attending the Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi, on [...] Full text...
27 november 2018 - 17:20:08
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) — A Canadian delegation in Kenya for the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference has pledged to explore [...] Full text...
26 november 2018 - 14:59:04
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged Kenya’s support for the sustainable blue economy by highlighting key [...] Full text...
26 november 2018 - 10:12:46
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday urged leaders attending a global summit on the conservation of [...] Full text...
26 november 2018 - 08:42:24
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – African leaders, ministers of environment and fisheries from Africa and around the world gathered in Nairobi [...] Full text...
23 november 2018 - 04:01:38
New York, US (PANA) - Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according [...] Full text...
16 november 2018 - 12:06:14
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Seychelles President Danny Faure and Namibia’s Hage Geingob are among world leaders who will attend a [...] Full text...
31 october 2018 - 14:39:34
Victoria, Seychelles (PANA) - The World Bank has hailed Seychelles, an Island state in the Indian Ocean, for issuing the [...] Full text...
30 october 2018 - 09:47:54
Washington, US (PANA) - Seychelles has launched the world's first sovereign blue bond, a pioneering financial instrument designed to support [...] Full text...
30 october 2018 - 09:08:53
Washington, DC., US (PANA) - World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a conservationist body, is warning that human activity is pushing the [...] Full text...
18 october 2018 - 14:52:45
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tributes are pouring in for South African Theodore Yach, one of the world’s leading [...] Full text...
10 october 2018 - 19:10:59
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Africa needs to speak with one voice when it goes to the global climate change summit [...] Full text...
26 september 2018 - 17:06:05
New York, US (PANA) - The World Bank Group announced on Wednesday the creation of PROBLUE, a new multi-donor [...] Full text...
17 september 2018 - 01:37:05
San Francisco, US (PANA) - New UN-backed commitments to take action against the damaging effects of climate change, could result [...] Full text...
14 august 2018 - 06:25:00
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PANA) - Healthy soils are essential to achieve ‘Zero Hunger’ – and other Sustainable Development [...] Full text...
03 july 2018 - 06:54:29
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Ensuring that people everywhere can trust the safety and quality of the food they eat is [...] Full text...
26 june 2018 - 11:05:14
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Maintaining that 90% of the European Union’s external trade and 40% of its internal trade is [...] Full text...
10 june 2018 - 07:06:58
Rome, Italy (PANA) - With the health of our oceans at stake, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has quickly [...] Full text...
09 june 2018 - 07:51:59
New York, US (PANA) - From carrying your own water bottle, to volunteering for a local clean-up, everybody needs to [...] Full text...
08 june 2018 - 10:58:11
Reduit, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius is finalising a regulation that will ban the disposal of all forms of plastic into [...] Full text...
08 june 2018 - 09:24:51
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa and a high-level delegation have departed for Quebec, Canada, to attend [...] Full text...
07 june 2018 - 07:37:56
Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) - Delegates from the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) and the European Union (EU) on Wednesday discussed peace, [...] Full text...
06 june 2018 - 08:34:50
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Acting President Mr Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory has called on the population to join hands to [...] Full text...
05 june 2018 - 04:16:35
New York, US (PANA) - The world must unite to “beat plastic pollution” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in [...] Full text...
23 may 2018 - 22:36:49
New York, US (PANA) - Corruption and complicity know no geographical boundaries, and it is society’s most vulnerable who get [...] Full text...
27 april 2018 - 06:39:02
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) Ministerial Conference on Maritime Security in the Western Indian Ocean will [...] Full text...
29 march 2018 - 19:02:11
New York, US (PANA) - Climate change “is still moving much faster than we are,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres [...] Full text...
13 february 2018 - 06:14:44
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - As many countries prepare to mark Valentine’s Day on Wednesday, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) [...] Full text...
06 december 2017 - 22:12:20
Paris, France (PANA) – The United Nations on Wednesday designated the years 2021 to 2030 as the ‘Decade of Ocean [...] Full text...
06 december 2017 - 18:32:57
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The world on Wednesday committed to a pollution-free planet at the close of the UN Environment [...] Full text...
05 december 2017 - 21:21:54
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Growing antimicrobial resistance linked to the discharge of drugs and some chemicals into the environment is [...] Full text...
18 november 2017 - 04:56:41
Bonn, Germany (PANA) - The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) wrapped up on Friday in Bonn, Germany, with delegations [...] Full text...
12 november 2017 - 05:25:58
Bonn, Germany (PANA) – Cities, the transport sector and ocean advocates have announced a number of new initiatives to push [...] Full text...
10 november 2017 - 20:06:51
Paris, France (PANA) – Integrated science is essential to strengthen water management, sustainably use the oceans and tackle climate change, [...] Full text...
24 october 2017 - 04:42:26
Manila, Philippines (PANA) – Unless the international community integrates wildlife conservation with sustainable development, it will not be able to [...] Full text...
28 september 2017 - 22:38:25
New York, US PANA) – Marking the World Maritime Day, the head of the United Nations maritime agency on Thursday [...] Full text...
12 september 2017 - 07:06:47
New York, US (PANA) – The United Nations General Assembly on Monday closed its 71st session with a focus on [...] Full text...
06 september 2017 - 14:42:10
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A crop of local elite marathon runners, among them Agnes Kiprop and Doris Chengeywo, have confirmed [...] Full text...
20 july 2017 - 11:42:58
New York, US (PANA) - The pace of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development must be accelerated , [...] Full text...
10 july 2017 - 20:02:00
New York, US (PANA) – Senior government representatives are at the United Nations on Monday for the start of the [...] Full text...
05 july 2017 - 06:51:16
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday a new United Nations global action programme [...] Full text...
01 july 2017 - 19:10:40
Reduit, Mauritius (PANA ) - Mauritius on Saturday marked International Cooperative Day at the University of Mauritius by a gathering [...] Full text...
30 june 2017 - 13:09:35
Mahe Island, Seychelles (PANA) - Countries from the Indian Ocean Islands and East Africa are cooperating to develop strategies to [...] Full text...
10 june 2017 - 05:45:19
New York, US (PANA) - The first-ever United Nations summit on oceans wrapped up on Friday with a global agreement [...] Full text...
09 june 2017 - 07:44:52
New York, US (PANA) - The world's oceans offer both challenges and solutions to the world's Sustainable Development Agenda, and [...] Full text...
08 june 2017 - 19:16:21
New York, US (PANA) – The future of the planet’s oceans is burdened by threats such as climate change, pollution [...] Full text...
08 june 2017 - 12:01:29
New York, US (PANA) – A healthy ocean requires robust global knowledge of ocean science, the head of the United [...] Full text...
08 june 2017 - 06:17:07
New York, US (PANA) - To mark World Oceans Day, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will name Australian musician [...] Full text...
07 june 2017 - 07:03:38
New York, US (PANA) – As the international community focuses this week on preserving the health of global oceans and [...] Full text...
05 june 2017 - 19:48:53
New York, US (PANA) – Opening a “game-changing” international conference on the health of the world’s oceans and seas, top [...] Full text...