Ghost of climate change haunts Rio

Reduction in premature deaths should be an SDG goal, says study

Impressive reduction in deaths among children in the past decade, but gains are low in countries engaged in war or suffering from HIV epidemic

Green growth now on Africa’s agenda

The forum will focus on three key areas: new financing models for green growth, sustainable urbanisation and sustainable lifestyles

World must meet carbon targets by 2070: UN

In a business-as-usual scenario, global greenhouse gas emissions could rise way beyond safe limits

The future we do not want

World leaders attending Rio+20 did nothing to tackle the interlinked crises of economy and ecology, says Sunita Narain after attending the …

Rio draft text revives common but differentiated responsibility

Calls for doing away with green protectionism through trade barriers while dealing with environmental matters

Updates From Rio

The Rio+20 challenge

Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication are the two themes of the summit, but consensus eludes on both …

Response to Ebola, obesity high on the agenda

WHO will evaluate performance related to MDGs and set priorities for the coming year, including plans to fight antimicrobial resistance

Experts call for holistic approach to reproductive healthcare

Urge governments to give women free healthcare to reduce maternal mortality

Push to include access to energy in UN development goals

Speakers at a consultative meeting in Delhi call for finding sustainable and affordable technological solutions for making energy accessible to …

MDG final report highlights the success of strategic intervention

Human society has achieved several milestones on all eight goals: Report

G8 report calls for easing of government regulations to boost ‘impact investing’

G8’s special task force stresses the need for investment by impact-driven commercial organisations to aid social development programmes in …

UN begins task of drafting declaration on sustainable development agenda

Delegates express concern over achieving equitable development

Malnutrition threatens 120 UN member nations, says global report

India performs well on under-5 stunting, but sanitation continues to be the biggest stumbling block

India’s poverty eradication challenge

The post-MDGs target seems impossible as chronic poverty sets in. Now, more poor people are becoming chronically poor compared to earlier times. …

Failure to reduce emissions will dramatically increase adaptation costs

Even with measures to limit global warming to under 2°C, the costs of adaptation are likely to be two to three times the current estimates, …

Lancet series launch in India angers health activists

Series of papers calls for engaging private sector in fighting malnutrition

Religious leaders pledge to alleviate poverty

They also declared they would do all they could to support the new SDGs, aimed at lifting millions of people out of poverty and creating a …

Water is critical to sustainable development, says UN report

Increasing ubanisation and industrialisation are widening the rift between demand for and supply of water

Sustainable Development Goals are not confined to poor countries

Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, SDGs will not be confined to poor countries  

SDGs: Focus on short-lived climate pollutants ahead of UN Summit

Targeting methane and black carbon rich sources could prevent approximately 2.4 million deaths annually, says report

World Heart Day: Cardiologists insist on 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products

The measure is also critical to meet the sustainable development goals 

SDGs: Governments' commitment to battle illegal wildlife trade applauded

The inclusion of targets to protect endangered species and end wildlife trafficking in the global goals is a strategic step, says an expert

'Like MDGs, India may fail to achieve SDG targets on malnutrition'