India’s SDG preparedness ranking continues to decline: Report
Country faces major challenges in achieving 11 of 17 Sustainable Development Goals
How Rwanda reached first global COVID-19 vaccination target
Rwanda defined a vaccination plan prior to getting the vaccines
Evidences dating back to the 1500s to be used for projections on climate change, biodiversity
The scoping study will be conducted over three years and analyse impact up till 2050
New low-carbon development, investment and governance models needed to achieve SDGs: UNDP Report
The transition in energy use is more important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
Ed Miliband makes a potentially transformative pitch for CoP 26 Glasgow presidency
He must clarify position on carbon markets, genuinely work in partnership with world
Desertification in India: A livestock keeper says how his stock has plummeted
‘I dream of gardens in the desert sand, I wake in vain’
Is Urbanisation the best way to preserve the African environment?
A new report seems to suggest so
UNEA-6: Extraction & use of world’s resources has grown three times more in 50 years
Global Resources Outlook 2024, released on final day of assembly, reveals shocking statistics
Migratory species facing peril globally shows report, as CMS COP14 begins in Samarkand
Overexploitation, habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation leading to loss of aquatic, terrestrial and avian migratory species
IPCC Special Report: Climate adaptation needs multi-level support
Adaptation is a local process that needs involvement of local authorities and communities in designing and implementing adaptation policies
Plastic endgame: Did UNEA 5.2 start a new era
The world’s adoption of the resolution to end plastic pollution by 2024 is only the first step in a long battle
175 countries commit to forge internationally binding treaty on plastic pollution by 2024
The resolution establishes an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to complete a draft global legally binding agreement by the end of 2024
Forced migration: Lack of global political will poses challenge for proper response, says report
By the end of 2020, 86 per cent people displaced across borders lived in countries with developing economies.
COP24: Nationally determined contributions and search for common time frames in Katowice
Time is running out and negotiators are still not happy. What will be the fate of the Paris Rule Book?
Andean Glacier and Water Atlas warns of ‘significant reduction in glacier mass’
UNESCO project highlights impact of shrinking glaciers on water availability and threat to water security for millions of people
Most African countries don’t have real-time air pollution monitors: Unicef
This includes Chad, Somalia and the Central African Republic where air pollution has reached emergency levels
WHA comes to an end with resolutions to improve universal health care
Members endorse improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene services in health facilities around the world
FAO acknowledges Indian wheat exports helped in reducing April inflation
There has been some relief in inflation in April according to the Food Price Index of the FAO, released May 6; this relief has been seen in …
Globally supported agricultural insurance mechanism must for developing nations: CSE
Unaffordability is one of the main reasons why farmers are not warming up to the idea of agricultural insurance
COP 26: Water and Climate Coalition stresses on better disaster-warning to buffer water cycle changes
Water dimensions of climate change adaptation and mitigation must be addressed, says letter to global leaders
Merck signs deal with UN-backed MPP for global access to COVID-19 drug
The agreement will help create broad access for the drug use in 105 low- and middle-income countries, including India, subject to regulatory approval
UN asks nations to prepare climate plans by March
Christiana Figueres calls for achieving climate neutrality in the second half of the century
Quick facts about the world’s livestock economy
A recent report reveals the world's dependence on livestock for food, economic security, trade, and inter-dependence with agriculture in both …
Antonio Guterres to convene climate ambition summit in 2023; says 1.5-degree goal ‘gasping for breath’
World still moving in the wrong direction on climate change, UN chief noted in his end-of-year address
Deluged Pakistan faces significant health threats, WHO warns
Threats include malaria, dengue fever, polio, diarrhoea, COVID-19 and cholera; Maternal health to be affected and domestic violence will rise, UN says