Vice President for Science and Technology, Sourena Sattari, has said technologies in the field of energy should be indigenized in order to improve energy efficiency in the country. The plan for improving fuel consumption patterns started 20 years ago, but we should acknowledge that the plan has not reached its stated goals, Sattari said at the opening ...

Financial Tribune - Iran climbed one step to rank 60th among 189 countries reviewed in the latest Human Development Index report released by the United Nations Development Program. Notably, the country is placed ahead of Turkey (64th), Mexico (74th), Brazil (79th), China (86th), South Africa (113th) and India (130th). Iran's HDI value for 2017,...

Kish Island, April 18, IRNA The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Iran Gary Lewis warns that serious environment issues are turning to a real security threat requiring global measures to remove the menace from the lives of human beings. Delivering his speech during a TEDxKish session on Saturday, the UNDP Tehran-office director explained ...

[caption id="attachment_59353" align="alignright" width="177"] Iran is the last habitat of the Asiatic Cheetah. It is estimated that approximately 50 Asiatic Cheetahs live in the wild[/caption] The Conservation of the Asiatic Cheetah Project (CACP) is a long standing initiative between Irans Department of Environment, UNDP and a number of committed ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) Japan government has repeated its contribution of $1 million to UNDP Iran to restore highly dried up salt water Lake Urmia, the official media release informed Mehr News. The Government of Japan has generously contributed $ 1 million to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Iran to continue supporting their efforts ...

[caption id="attachment_147133" align="alignright" width="155"] Mr. Khoda Karam Jalali, Deputy Minister and Head of Forest, Range and Watershed Management Organization, Governor-General of North Khorasan province, Mr. Seyed Ali-Akbar Parvizi and UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in the I.R. of Iran, Mr. Gary Lewis[/caption] We ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The 1st Conference and Exhibition of Health Tourism for Economic Cooperation Organization countries has kicked off in the Iranian northern city of Ramsar. Representatives of the health ministries as well ambassadors from 9 ECO member states, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) envoy, as well as the representative ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Head of Irans Environmental Protection Organization (IEPO) said in a Tuesday meeting with UN representative in Iran that dealing with such environmental problems as green house gases and global warming are in need of broader international cooperation. The IEPO Chief Masoumeh Ebtekarsaid in the meeting with the UN official that the ...