Court digest: Major environment hearings in April
While every week, Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal, here …
India’s sustainable ‘blood revolution’
Sustainable and reusable menstrual products are the need of the hour for India’s women and its environment
Labour organisation report shows 150 million migrants in global workforce
Two main factors are driving migration at present—economic hardship and geopolitical crises leading to the lack of decent work
Have we forgotten Rio already?
India has failed in the basic work that it needed to do even before going to Rio -- define the pathway of sustainable development for itself
Dreams from six world's apart
The agonised voice of the Warli and Kokna tribes of Thane (Maharashtra) reach out to say, through Pradip Prabhu...
Human problems
Internal wrangling in the WWFI has conservationists wondering about the future of nurturing nature
Neither rosy nor green
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A musician's Yantra
Violinist-turned-environmentalist Aubrey Meyer has coined the phrase "contraction and convergence" and set the world thinking on the lines of …
Several trade-offs impede Zero Hunger goal. A UN report explains why, and how
Achieving SDG2 will require new investments, smoothly functioning trade and changes in consumption patterns, flags UN
Rio draft text revives common but differentiated responsibility
Calls for doing away with green protectionism through trade barriers while dealing with environmental matters
Can agroforestry help achieve sustainable developmental goals?
The net carbon sequestered in agroforestry is 11.35 tonnes of carbon per ha
Asia worried about climate change, Africa about environment-development trade-off
Experts from around the world express concerns over biodiversity
What Cairo did not discuss
Let's get political
The environmental movement is politically weak. That is the lesson from the Rio summit
Locking horns
A clarion call
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No progress
UNEP meet inconclusive
DIG Jehangir
World leaders must prioritise implementation of sustainable development goals
Thirty per cent of the SDGs are worse now than eight years ago
Report on South Asian poverty argues for growth with justice
The SAAPE report points out that there is a growing marginalisation and destitution of people in the South Asian region
And miles to go before we meet
The North-South divide is not a fabrication: for three-fourths of the world, it is a fact of daily existence. Ignoring it will not make it …
Africa and Asia come together to lead a global initiative to diversify staples
This would have a strong impact on nutrition and the environment, in turn helping to fulfil Sustainable Development Goals
Dubai Declaration adopted to measure progress of SDGs
Launched at the UN World Data forum, it details measures to boost funds for data and statistical analysis for monitoring progress towards …