Methane emissions to rise 5-13% by 2030 from 2020 levels under business-as-usual scenario: Report

Human activities release 350-390 million tonnes of methane annually

Multidimensional poverty affects 2/3rd of children in rural Nigeria: UNICEF

Larger proportion of children involved in economic labour were multi-dimensionally poor

UNEA 5.2: Pharma, health sectors among 5 major sources of AMR, says UNEP report

AMR could kill up to 10 million people per year by 2050, says report

Population populism: UP draft population bill fails tests of necessity, intrusiveness

The proposed law will lead to more abortions and adverse sex ratio at birth

Speakers highlight importance of implementation at CMS CoP 13

Need to redirect synergies on the ground, they said

South, Southeast Asia have most of world’s underweight youth: IFAD

Number of those overweight also increasing; more underweights in rural areas 

Five reasons to believe the HFC talks are headed in the right direction

All is not lost for HFC talks as countries made tangible progress in Paris last week

World Health Assembly adopts resolution to prevent drowning

First-of-its-kind alliance, global status report to asses worldwide impact 

Fridays for Future: It isn’t too late, say young activists demanding climate reparations, justice

Demands for loss & damage finance raised across the world 6 weeks ahead of CoP27

Africa must be priority if humanity is to conquer hunger; but it is only getting worse there

By 2030, Africa will be home to the largest number of undernourished people

Every country exceeds new PM2.5 annual limit set by WHO: Report

The concentration in 93 per cent of the cities was 10 times the new guidelines

Global supply chains major user of child labour: UN report

Asian region has highest child labour in global supply chains

UNCCD COP14: Desertification, land degradation hit poor hardest

Climate change drives migration but many can’t even move out: Report 

Modi bats for South-South ties, plastic ban at UNCCD meet

PM raises land reclamation target to 26 mln hectares by 2030

The history of climate change negotiations

A quick summary of climate change negotiations over the years

70,000 children born during Ebola outbreak in Liberia at risk of exclusion if not registered, warns UNICEF

UN body supporting drive to register the children

MDG final report highlights the success of strategic intervention

Human society has achieved several milestones on all eight goals: Report

Hunger and poverty trigger most of the conflicts, says FAO official

Ongoing conflicts is Africa and West Asia could be seen as closest examples

Half of the world’s richest biodiversity zones unprotected: UN study

Fast progress needed on targets for protected areas especially marine areas, it adds

SDG Summit 2023: Political declaration for massive increase in investments to attain SDGs adopted

Leaders recommitted to full implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Should fat cats guard the cream?

Industrialised countries want to monitor their own compliance to the Kyoto Protocol.

Cost of importing food is expected to rise 6% in 2017

The global food import bill is rising despite robust output in 2017, says UN

Asian cities to be worst hit by climate change

Governments are finding it difficult to cope with the swelling population

UN Climate Summit 2014 pledges to end forest loss by 2030

Governments, MNCs, civil society agree to cut the rate of forest loss to half by 2020

Somalia on verge of being hit by famine

About 250,000 people had died in the famine that hit the Horn of Africa in 2011