World Antibiotic Awareness Week: Lack of access

Shortage of first-line antibiotics, which are essential to treat a wide range of common infections, is a major public health threat

UN reports demands review of non-tariff measures to boost world trade

If implemented in the right trade, such measures can help in achieving sustainable development goals

Human rights, environment activists unsafe in Asia: Report

688 cases of violations and abuses recorded in 18 countries in 2017, 2018

‘Improving efficiency only way to control nitrogen pollution’

Human-induced nitrogen emissions have surpassed natural emissions, damaging the environment and human health, says Mark Sutton, lead author of &…

Why International Yoga Day is no cause for celebration in India

The debate around International Yoga Day is not about health benefits. It is about the media spectacle in the name of health when spending on …

23,700,000: That's how many people climate change forced out of their homes in 2021

Climate disasters led to 4.9 million internal displacements in India last year: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre    

UNEA 5.2: UN assembly to come up with an agreement on plastic pollution

The agreement will seek to track the lifespan of plastic products right from the source and into the seas

Why UNICEF wants to raise $255 million this year for eastern, southern Africa

The additional funds will support children with adequate, life-saving nutrition services

Almost 60% of Africa’s low-income countries in debt distress: UNCTAD

Ghana and Tunisia are in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency loans

UN meet begins over treaty to govern use of high seas

Fifth round of negotiations for international legal treaty to protect marine biodiversity beyond jurisdiction of countries

Least developed countries need help to overcome COVID-19-induced economic setback: UNCTAD

Boosting productive capacities biggest hope for LDC to cushion COVID-19 impacts 

Montreal Protocol leads to healing of Earth’s ozone layer hole

This achievement is majorly due to the Montreal Protocol of 1987 that regulates the consumption and production of nearly 100 human-made chemicals

Across Africa, water conflict threatens security, health and the environment

Once conflicts escalate, they are hard to resolve and can have a negative impact on water security, creating vicious cycles of conflict

Poverty and inequality a threat to urban poor: UN report  

Multidimensionality of urban poverty and inequality should be at the centre of interventions to create an inclusive and equitable urban future …

How to fight deseritification: Here’s what the 15th COP to UNCCD agreed on

UNCCD COP15 adopts 38 decisions, including on tenure, migration and gender, that highlight the role of land in addressing multiple crises  

China’s climate change record: Beijing tends to meet its targets, but sets the bar too low

Glasgow may have been the crossroad where China and the rest of the world chose a more sustainable path.

Russia blocks UN resolution on climate change fearing unwarranted western intervention

On Monday, India voted ‘no’ as well, while China abstained from voting  

Simply Put: ‘I’ for indigenous, ‘E’ for Extinct

Will COVID-19 lead to global famine

Around 0.3 million people can starve daily over three months in the absence of the aid, says UN report

WHO launches 'clean air coalition'; new clean air fund to be announced

WHO said Sunday that it was launching a “Clean Air Coalition” led by the Governments of Spain and Peru, while a group of …

Simply put: Droughts disastrous for agriculture

Measuring sustainability through inclusive wealth

United Nations Environment’s latest report suggests that the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI), rather than GDP is better suited to capture a …

Can biotechnology help feed the world’s hungriest region—Asia and the Pacific?

UN's ocean laws lack clarity on continental shelf

Speakers highlight problems in UN’s law of the seas at ocean law and policy conference

Sustainable forestry paramount for biodiversity conservation: FAO

Report finds weak governance, law enforcement biggest stumbling blocks