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The environmental youth group on February 7, 2021 collected rubbishes in Siem Reap s Puok District. Creal Cambodia
Youth group set to clean up Phnom Penh, major towns
Wed, 10 February 2021
The environmental youth group Creal Cambodia said its
Keep Cambodia Clean project, which first started on February 7, was off to a good start, having drawn the participation of hundreds of young people as well as some assistance from local authorities.
Hour Chhai Ngorn, Creal Cambodia founder and head of the project, said the
Keep Cambodia Clean campaign has the goals of cleaning up the environment and educating the participants and the public about waste disposal and plastic reduction.
CIRAD and AFD launch the first fund to support geographical indications in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
04/02/2021 - Press release
CIRAD and the Agence Française de Développement recently launched the “Geographical Indications Facility”, to run for a period of four years from 2021. Its goal is to provide actors in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States with technical and financial support for the development of geographical indications.
Geographical indications (GIs) are intended to recognize and promote local products whose quality, reputation or characteristics are fundamentally linked to their territory of origin. Penja pepper and Oku honey (Cameroon), Ziama-Macenta coffee (Guinea), sugarloaf pineapples from the Allada plateau (Benin), and Teboursouk olive oil (Tunisia) are just some examples in Africa, along with Kampot pepper (Cambodia) in Asia. GIs are both a quality process within a sector linked to a collective territorial project, and an intellectual pro
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Cambodia plans to expand its clean-energy portfolio to 450MW by the end of next year. PUBLIC DOMAIN
Three solar farms to add 120MW in 2021
Mon, 8 February 2021
Three solar farms with a total 120MW of installed capacities are on track to be connected to the national grid by this year’s end, to help keep pace with growing demand and slash electricity prices, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
Victor Jona, the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy listed the projects as a 60MW solar farm in Battambang province, a 30MW project in Pursat province and another 30MW facility in Banteay Meanchey province.
Rendering of the new Ream City in southwestern Cambodia Developers of a completely new coastal city to be built from scratch in Cambodia’s southwestern Preah Sihanouk province have approved the sustainable development masterplan for what would become “Ream City” between Sihanoukville and Kampot and just adjacent of Vietnam’s resort island of Phu Quoc. The city, being developed on 834 hectares at an investment of $16 billion, has been an initiative by Canopy Sands Development, a unit of Prince Holding Group, one of Cambodia’s largest and fastest growing conglomerates. It will also involve Singapore-based infrastructure and urban development company Surbana Jurong,.