Budget 2023-24: What can it offer for the development of Indian cities?

Strengthening urban local bodies & capacities of citizens, communities key for sustainable development of Indian cities

Of Joshimath and Martin Ravallion: The sinking town shows all that is flawed in our poverty reduction discourse

Sustainable development is no longer a buzzword; it now questions the neoliberal economic development model, whose impacts are staring us in the …

UN chief slams ‘immoral’ profiteering from fossil fuels amid global energy crisis

Calls for windfall tax to fund fair policies and sustainable energy solutions  

Digital water information system for efficient, sustainable management

Structured data sets are required to conduct adequate research, translate data into definite findings

Africa Climate Summit: Youth and children demand climate justice, call for action now

Africa Youth Climate Assembly emphasises need for collaborative and immediate action in a declaration, reflects urgency echoed in …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 15, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Need to make agri-food systems resilient to address food security: SOFA 2021

Food costs could increase for up to 845 million people if a disruption to critical transport links were to occur, SOFA 2021 flagged

India won’t meet UN targets to reduce premature mortality from major non-communicable diseases: ICMR-NCDIR

NCDs account for 66 per cent of all deaths in India, of which 22 per cent were premature deaths in 2019

World leaders should choose people over profit

Rising hunger, inequality, loss of livelihoods, climate change, environmental degradation, war and vaccine inequality pushed excluded people to …

IPCC report: Many changes to climate are irreversible now, says Guterres

The United Nations Secretary-General calls for complete pause on coal plants after 2021 during the launch of the 6th IPCC report

UN launches 10 principles to close Asia-Pacific sustainable finance gap

Aimed at mobilising and deploying financing for key Sustainable Development Goals, particularly around climate action

Supreme Court to hear plea over survey of Himalayan states

Sustainability potential, carrying capacity of the 13 states in Himalayan region has not been studied, alleges plea; warns of more ecological …

COP28 should shine a spotlight on corporate environmental responsibility 

Public, private and social sectors need to come together in the climate fight

Farmers need resilient value chains to combat climate impact

Emerging social entrepreneurs are helping restore forest and farmland ecosystems by supporting smallholder farmers without access and …

Why we need to factor ecosystem services into economic development planning

The multiplier effects of healthy forest cover are enormous in terms of economic, social development objectives

Debt of emerging markets & developing economies rose by 178% from 2008-2022: Report

The Global South is staring at a debt crisis, but the “Common Framework” created to provide debt relief has serious shortcomings

UNESCO bats for more AI in Indian education; Will it work?

UN body recommends ethical, responsible use of artificial intelligence for quality education, experts point to digtal divide

Assess marine biodiversity before permitting deep-sea mining: Experts

India backs International Seabed Authority at 27th session of Assembly while many countries question body’s stand on deep-sea mining

Joshimath Sinking: Preparations for Char Dham Yatra begin; locals still clueless about permanent rehabilitation

Reports by eight central technical institutes behind the cause for the crisis in the holy town not released to public yet.

‘Green’ steel, cement for clean energy? Not yet there, says IEA; here’s why

In order to achieve net zero emission target, battery manufacturing capacity for electronic vehicles has to multiply by six times the present …

India’s wind energy sector struggles despite SECI’s oversubscribed bids

Surge in commodity prices, supply chain disruptions, increase in tax rates, legacy challenges key reasons

Starvation, disease: Tribes of Lower Omo bear the brunt of development projects

Oakland Institute report looks into condition of Ethiopian Indigenous communities displaced for dams, sugarcane plantations

PM’s climate change council has not met in almost 7 years

Who is, then, advising the PM for his climate goal announcements?

Time to reform UN Security Council, Bretton Woods system outdated: Guterres

Can’t ignore vast majority of countries suffering a deep financial crisis, UN Secretary-General says at G7 meet

7th GEF Assembly: Member countries get together to ratify Global Biodiversity Framework Fund 

Momentum set in Vancouver crucial for achieving the biodiversity and sustainable development goals by 2030