Environment

It was UAE’s national day on Saturday and it received its rewards. It was a day that moved the COP28 dial with major pledges and announcements. The COP28 Presidency ...

By Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and David Stanway Governments launched new initiatives on Saturday to bolster clean energy and to wean themselves off fossil fuels at the UN climate summit ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that each country should “run much faster” to halt climate change. Christodoulides is in Dubai for the United Nations’ COP28 summit, and added that ...

The United States has pledged $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday in Dubai at the U.N. COP28 climate summit. The fund, with ...

By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici The Biden administration on Saturday unveiled final rules aimed at cracking down on US oil and gas industry releases of methane, part of a ...

December 1 was the first full day at COP28 and it was mostly devoted to rhetoric-heavy speeches from world leaders, except of course Joe Biden and Xi Jinping who decided not ...

A raft of environmental groups sent an open letter to Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos on Friday, demanding a meeting with him to discuss the currently frozen road construction works in ...

Cyprus has initiated discussions with countries participating in a regional climate change initiative to create projects and undertake measures to address the effects of climate change, President Nikos Christodoulides said ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders at the COP28 climate summit to plan for a future without fossil fuels, saying there was no other way to curb global ...

COP28 is finally upon us. The biggest show on earth started on Thursday, November 30, in Dubai, attended by 165 heads of state and more than 97,000 delegates from over 200 countries. For the ...

The incoming COP28 president, Sultan al-Jaber, opened this year’s U.N. climate summit on Thursday by urging countries and fossil fuel companies to work together to meet global climate ...

Works in Akamas are “partially frozen,” the agriculture ministry’s general director Costas Hadjipanayiotou told the House environment committee on Wednesday, noting that the Ministry’s administrative investigation into the ...

By Konstantinos Perikleous Cyprus is a unique place in terms of wildlife, with high biodiversity in plants and animals, of which many are endemic. That is, they are found only ...

Seven out of ten Cypriots say they’d be willing to pay more income tax to help lower-income households cope with the costs of green transition, while a little over ...

The public is being urged to buy real Christmas trees this year, as the forestry department on Monday launched a campaign to sell potted pines as a more ecological method ...

The Cyprus Architects’ Association on Friday called for an immediate re-evaluation of the construction being carried out in the Akamas area. They added that the competent ministries and all parties ...

Britain came out on top when 21 teams from around the world gathered in Tokyo this week to collect litter in the inaugural SpoGomi World Cup, an initiative aimed at raising ...

Bolivians are battling wildfire blazes that have torn through 3 million hectares (11,583 square miles) of land this year, with firefighters and police using hoses, sprinklers and at times bottles of water ...

Akamas is a national project and not private property and the need for restoration of damages is urgent, Klitos Papastylianou, ex-scientific advisor for the Akamas special environmental assessment said on ...

The transport ministry on Thursday announced the purchase of 40 electric vehicles to be used for official government business. They said the vehicles will “meet the needs of various ministries, departments, ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver Contractor Cyfield announced that it would be stopping all works on the road network in the Akamas peninsula as of Wednesday until all issues ...

City Friends Club, a non-profit charity, in collaboration with the curatorial team ARTNOW organise NYX5R, an environmental art exhibition in the lobby of NYX Hotel Limassol by Leonardo Hotels. ...

Are you interested in working in a sustainable and environmentally-friendly environment? Look no further than co-working spaces! With energy-efficient lighting, green building certifications, and waste reduction programs, these shared workspaces ...

By Olivia Skordi Black Friday is “celebrated” on November 24 this year. This event started in the United States to mark the Christmas season by promoting extreme price discounts and offers ...