Early breastfeeding practices in India: Backwardness cuts through social spectrum

Children born in Goa (75.4 per cent) had the highest rate of early breastfeeding in the country, followed by Sikkim (69.7 per cent) and Odisha (68.…

A decentralised system will lead to sustainable water use

S Vishwanath, a Bangalore-based engineer and planner, started the Rainwater Club to help people manage rainwater efficiently. He spoke to Binayak …

Technosolutions

The need of the hour is technological innovation that helps tackle both poverty and environmental degradation

The real culprit

GREEN ECONOMICS— BEYOND SUPPLY AND DEMAND TO MEETING PEOPLE’S NEEDS·Edited by Molly Scott Cato and Miriam Kennett·Green …

Humans first

EQUATION FOR LIFE·Edited by George Cheriyan·Published by: Books for change·110p; Price: 120

Wishful thinking

The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …

What it takes to clean a river

It is the tale of two European rivers. The Rhine and the Danube. No river system in the world has a density of industrial agglomerations …

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 …

What COVID-19 can mean for SDG-11, sustainable cities and communities in India

As urban vulnerabilities are amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of sustainable cities in Sustainable Development Goals needs to be …

UN begins task of drafting declaration on sustainable development agenda

Delegates express concern over achieving equitable development

UNDP-UNEP initiative help African countries move towards green economy

Governments focus on public resource allocation for pro-poor sustainability

Agents of change

Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving

UNITED NATIONS

Ecological poverty

The World After

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

COVID-19: Worst economic performance by very poor countries in 30 years

43 least developed countries are experiencing a fall in their average income levels, says UNCTAD report

Resolution on nitrogen can lead to a carbon-like framework

The resolution for sustainable nitrogen management in the United Nations Environment Assembly was led by India for the first time

Can India-EU strategic partnership focus on climate change, clean energy?

Trade and security was the focus of the recently concluded India-EU summit, but the two entities need to move beyond that?

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

Good ol' dug well

Traditional shallow wells can supply arsenic-free water. All one needs to do is install it with caution

A whale of problem

INUIT, WHALING, AND SUSTAINABILITY:·By Milton M R Freeman, Ingmar Egede et al ·Published by Altamira Press, New Delhi

The Blue Danube

An international convention for protection of the Danube hopes to restore the river's ecosystem

Seeking Reliance

The Andhra Pradesh government is giving forests that sustain tribal communities to the Reliance group of industries for plantations. That, too, …