A milestone of the ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP)

The very first ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP) is a leadership development program run by Common Purpose in partnership with ASEAN Foundation, SAP, and GIZ. The Challenge that the participants explored, ideate, and initiate projects on is: "How might we increase ...

စိမ်းလန်းသော (‌‌မြေ)နေရာများနှင့် အပြာ‌ရောင် (ရေ)နေရာများ၏ လူမှုရေးနှင့်စီးပွားရေးဆိုင်ရာအရေးပါမှု

ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သည့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ရပ်ကွက်များတွင် ပျှမ်းမျှအားဖြင့် လူတို့သည် ပိုကျန်းမာလေ့ရှိပြီး ကလေးများသည် အပြင်ထွက်် ကစားလေ့ရှိသည်။ မကြာသေးမီ နှစ်များအတွင်း မြို့နှင့် မြို့ကြီးများတွင် စိမ်းလန်းစိုပြေခြင်း၏ အကျိုးကျေးဇူးများ နှင့် ပတ်သက်သော အချက်အလက်များ ပိုမိုရရှိလာသည်။ လူအများစုသည် ပိုမို စိမ်းလန...

Turn plastic waste into profit

18 January 2021 - Source: Myanmar Times People will recycle if they can make money doing so. In places where cash is offered for cans and bottles, metal and glass recycling has been a great success. Sadly, the incentives have been weaker for recycling plastic. As of 2015, only 9 per cent of plastic ...

National Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan for Myanmar (2017-2030)

The National Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan is the first national initiative aimed at institutionalising waste management and offers a visionary document and strategic guide to address key issues, needs and challenges whilst raising awareness amongst key stakeholders towards achieving a r...

Mandalay struggles to manage wastes amid burgeoning economy

18 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times Myanmar's second-largest city is struggling to dispose of its waste properly amid growing fast-growing businesses and an increasing population. Due to the rapid increase of daily waste, the city with a population of over 1.2 million, will upgrade the garbage ...

Tackling waste with Doh Eain

31 AUG 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times At the same time the Doh Eain believes that by managing wet waste for composting, residents will take better care and not throw kitchen waste out on the street. The added benefit is that the streets will also have a place to grow and nurture their own green p...

Yangon floods, and litter bugs

05 June 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times This year's monsoon has already reached across half of Myanmar, with last month's Cyclone Amphan also dumping hundreds of millimeters of rain across Eastern India and Bangladesh. Though the rainy days have been far and few between, the city is already witnessing ...

Clean up, waste clean up……. Saving Yangon river for an hour

River Clean Up Campaign was yearly organized at Botahtaung river front to give a message to the public becoming more aware of river pollution in Yangon river. with the collaboration of the embassy of the kingdoms of the Netherlands and Think Maritime Company limited, volunteers led by Yangon City De...

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