WHO calls for decisive action to reduce climate change impacts on health
According to data from health agency, climate change is causing tens of thousands of deaths every year from shifting patterns of disease
Ace swimmer Lewis Pugh to swim seven seas to raise awareness
Pugh who has pioneered swims in the most hostile waters on Earth will campaign for dedicated Marine Protected Areas
Shifting forest finance toward a rights-based REDD+
Criticisms of REDD+ may leave the impression that this is an uncertain avenue for climate finance. The case for finance to flow to carbon sinks …
India, Japan pitch for carbon credits from nuclear energy
Non-profits irked. Say lessons not learnt from Fukushima
World Food Day: Plant-based diet can fix food inequality, cut premature deaths says report
Plant-based diets can cut down carbon emissions by 30%; wildlife loss by 46%
मानव विकास सूचकांक में एक पायदान लुढ़का भारत, 189 देशों की रैंकिंग में 131 वें स्थान पर पहुंचा
मानव विकास सूचकांक की 189 देशों की इस लिस्ट में भारत को 131 वां स्थान दिया गया है, जबकि पिछले वर्ष (2018 में) भारत ...
India stopped counting poor; now the world in bind on how to achieve zero poverty by 2030
World Bank’s latest poverty report highlights how absence of poverty data in India — junked by the government last year — …
COVID-19: A lab for Covid-related laws
A new portal by UN agencies collates laws enacted by over 190 countries related to current pandemic
How communities in China helped keep desertification at bay
A fast-ageing population could deter efforts to achieve the United Nation’s target of zero land degradation by 2030
$1.5 trillion global trade finance gap affecting SDG targets: ADB
Women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises are the worst-hit
ICFRE-ICIMOD’s REDD+ Himalayan programme extended till 2020
Launched in January 2016 in Mizoram, the project addressed the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in India's Himalayan states
Atoll nations at immediate risk of climate change
Made up of ring shaped group of coral reefs, islands or a series of islets, these nations are the first to face rising sea-levels and extreme …
Some progress, lots left: UN Climate Change annual report
Report ahead of Bonn conference lists opportunities for 2019
Thirty Million, a documentary on Bangladesh and that sinking feeling
This documentary by Daniel Price and Adrien Taylor explores the adverse impact of climate change on Bangladesh' landscape, food security and …
Parties discuss aspects of global stocktake at Bonn climate talks
Talks involved deliberations on the design and technicalities of the global stocktake which will take place in 2023
A well-hatched plot
Indications are that India will be made the "fall guy". Developed countries will try at every step to propose changes in the 1992 convention, …
New ‘vulnerable nations’ bloc looks set to redraw the climate politics map
A new bloc of 'vulnerable' countries has emerged at the Paris climate talks—perhaps heralding the end of the old rich-poor geopolitical divide
Keep us in the room, urge observers at Bonn climate summit
ADP co-chairs barred observers from attending negotiations in spin-off groups after Japan said real negotiations cannot happen in front …
SDGs in the midst of global hope and fears
On September 25, the world will hope against hope as heads of more than 160 countries officially launch the goals
Uganda becomes first African country to submit REDD+ results, paves way for payments
The mechanism by the United Nations calls for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
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दुनिया के हर तीसरे स्वास्थ्य केंद्र में नहीं है हाथ धोने की व्यवस्था: रिपोर्ट
दुनिया के हर तीन में से एक स्वास्थ्य केंद्र में कचरे को अलग करने की व्यवस्था नहीं है
Antimicrobial resistance: The need to tackle access-excess problem
AMR, like every process, has its own drivers and determinants. The threat has evolved over time due to our acts of omission and commission
COVID-19 will magnify food shortage in Africa
The pandemic can more than double the number of people facing food crisis, unless swift action is taken, warned Global Network Against Food …
COVID-19: UNCTAD predicts $3.4 tln debt for developing countries
Income losses to exceed $220 bln in developing countries, says report