World Bank staff calls for ‘open’ system of presidential selection
The move comes even as the global body called for nominations to select a new president after Jim Yong Kim resigned recently
New IPCC report will strengthen science on links between biodiversity loss, climate change: UNEP
The report, which is in the final stages of production, will be released February 28
Bad business all round
Neither the market regulator nor the Supreme Court has been able to bring crooked businessmen to book
‘Commercial interest cannot drive lake conservation in Bengaluru’
High Court panel frowns on handing over of city lakes to private companies
Tata retaliates
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India’s poverty reduction slowing down since a decade
The world finally has an assessment of India’s poverty level in absence of an official one for the last 10 years. It increases global …
Climate conference: developed countries push for closing talks under Long-Term Cooperative Action
They make no promise on extending financial and technology support to developing countries
Extinguished!
Conventional politics breaks up the fiery spirit of an ideal self-sustaining forest community
Chhattisgarh mining protests continue on Day 5
Since June 7, tribals in Bastar’s Bailadila have been protesting the NMDC’s allotment of mines on the Nandraj hill to the Adani Group
Simply Put: Duplicitous energy politics
Global warming: 400 million tonnes CO2 pumped to atmosphere a year from this source the world is blind to
Gas flared at oil and gas facilities is greater than EU’s total import from Russia and a key source of methane emission
Climate change: What G7 leaders could have said but didn’t
One of the greatest unmentionables at climate summit after climate summit is just how badly we keep track of contributions to global warming.
Collective response: Group farming helps small, landless farmers amid COVID-19 pandemic
Putting a new twist to an idea can provide a much-needed cushion to India’s bottom-of-the-pyramid farmers in trying times
Centre signs US $200 million loan deal with World Bank for POSHAN Abhiyaan
Amount to be used as financial aid to reduce stunting among children
The paradox of nature and balanced accounts
Western institutions and the United Nations are keen protagonists of natural resource accounting but it may still not be a useful policy tool for …
Tackling antimicrobial resistance: Now G7 health ministers take it up
Report highlights key healthcare challenges, G7 commitments to address them
International Women’s Day: Why 2021 shines bright for gender parity at parliaments in Sub-Saharan Africa
In the 48 countries around the world that held parliamentary elections in 2021, women candidates won 28.6% of the new seats
Adani has set a dangerous precedent in requesting scientists’ names
profound concerns raised by climate change and fossil fuel emissions are shared by many scientists around the world. This shared concern does not …
Genocide uncovered
Deeply embedded in the battle for land and pastoral hegemony, the first genocide of the 20th century—Namibia's Herero and Nama tribes by …
World bodies release new principles on cost-effective carbon pricing schemes
New World Bank Report states that carbon-pricing schemes are worth US $50 billion
COVID-19 damaged cognitive development, lifetime earnings of an entire generation, finds Word Bank
Report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the young, children finds jeopardy to well-being of generations and growth of economies
Debt crisis and gap in affordable climate finance in focus at IMF, World Bank meeting
Spring Meetings 2023 took place from April 10-16, 2023 in Washington DC
Simply Put: G20 summit in pollution capital
Air pollution sets back global economy by $225 billion
An estimated 5.5 million people died due to air pollution-related diseases in 2013
World Bank to lend $1 billion to India’s solar programme
This is the Bank’s largest ever support for solar power in any country