Environmental assessments hugely underestimate wildlife impacts: Study
Methods used in assessing environmental impact seldom consider how species move around between different sites
How India is positioned to achieve UN’s sustainable consumption and production goal
The population of China and India together constitutes 36% of the global population but generates only 27 per cent of the global municipal waste
17% of all food available at consumer levels was wasted in 2019, reveals Food Waste Index
Reducing food waste would also help improve food security, address climate change, save money and lower pressures on the environment
Climate resilient agriculture systems: The way ahead
Climate resilient agriculture practices can help reduce hunger and poverty in the face of climate change
World to suffer $10 trillion loss by 2050 unless nature is saved: WWF report
However, annual global GDP will be 0.02 % higher by 2050 if conservation of nature is done
305 million African children will be living in extreme poverty by 2030: Report
New British think tank report suggests cash transfers, access to basic services and redistributive public finance can help in curtailing child poverty
Calls for protectionism in the West should not scare Africa: UNECA
Africa needs to move away from the model of selling rich natural resources which do not generate enough financing for development
To strengthen climate action, women should be recognised as agents of change
Women should be at the heart of efforts to device and deploy lasting solutions to adapt to a changing climate
Integration of culture with urban strategies can make cities sustainable
Culture is what makes cities attractive and creative. Sans culture, cities are merely concrete and steel constructions prone to social and …
Debt in Eastern Africa rising rapidly, but remains manageable
An additional US$600 billion is needed in Africa every year until 2030 in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
'India can learn from other regions on the need to adopt proactive drought management policies'
FAO expert Mohamed Bazza speaks on how climate change is expected to make drought worse and how the adoption of proactive drought management …
Burning bright in Nepal
The economic blockade by the Madhesi community has inadvertently spruced up demand for biogas plants in Nepal
'Politics, science and civil society will determine success of SDGs'
Paul V Gandingen, director at Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) and a UNESCO chair, talks about how countries can achieve …
Grasping the roots
Environmental literature plays an important role in moulding innocent minds to think and understand green.
A sense of belonging
URBAN VILLAGES Tony Aldous Publishers: Urban Villages Group, UK Pages: 95 Price: Not stated
Learning the language of transformation
PIONEERS OF CHANGE - EXPERIMENTS IN CREATING A HUMANE SOCIETY Jeremy Seabrook Publisher: New Society Publishers, Philadelphia Price: Not stated
Blinded by figures
By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads …
North overconsumes resources, but efficiently
Friends of the Earth (FOE) in Netherlands has been fighting unsustainable lifestyles in the world's affluent societies by campaigning vigorously …
An uphill task
How do you define and measure sustainable development? A host of non-governmental organisations led by the Switzerland-based World Conservation …
Needed: a new yardstick
Gross National Product may be an inadequate measure of economic activity when environmental damage occurs
A little "war" between the North and South
The public debate between Dutch environment minister Hans Alders and Sunita Narain of the Centre for Science and Environment, covering a whole …
Sustainable development is an oxymoron
WOLFGANG Sachs, born in 1946 in Munich, studied theology, sociology and history and taught at the University of Berlin for several years. At the …
34% of environmental indicators under SDGs lack standards
Lack of standards means there is no benchmark from which to calculate the Sustainable Development Goals
Iconic Tiger Hill near Darjeeling under ‘development’ threat, NGT pulls up government departments
An environmentalist moved court listing several detrimental activities in the area; departments nudge one another
Bundelkhand: drought, miseries and hope
What needs to be done to overcome environmental challenges of the region