Environment

Türkiye's first lady Emine Erdoğan presided over the second meeting of the United Nations Zero Waste Advisory Board on June 5, coinciding with World Environment Day.

The Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage Sites, a U.N. committee recommended on June 22, prompting an angry response from Australia which said it had been blindsided by the move and blamed political interference.

Qatar's Environment Minister Ahmed bin Amir al-Humaidi has proposed that Sofia and Doha set up a joint venture involving leading food producers, the Bulgarian government has said.

Details are yet to be discussed as a Qatari delegation led by Al-Humaidi is on a visit to Sofia until Tuesday.

UN members pressed ahead Sunday with a vision for a historic pact to defeat climate change by adopting a format for national pledges to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gases.
      
At a marathon conference in Lima, they also approved a blueprint to guide negotiations for the deal due to be sealed in Paris in December 2015.
      

The newly elected Attica regional governor on Monday canceled the tenders for four major waste disposal projects in the broader area of the Greek capital in a bid to seek alternative methods, though the decision will mean more delays in Athens’s enduring efforts to grapple with waste management.