The World Bank has issued the world's first Wildlife Conservation Bond (WCB) or the "rhino bond", raising $150 million to help efforts to increase the endangered black rhino population in South Africa, the bank said in a statement on Thursday.
The presence of the Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Bhupendra Yadav has announced the launch of the 'Prakriti' green initiative.
UNICEF's YuWaah' - the Indian chapter of Generation Unlimited has announced the CEO of Capgemini in India Ashwin Yardi as its co-chair and will be a co-chair along with Yasumasa Kimura, the UNICEF Representative.