COVID-19 pandemic may drive 40-60 mln to extreme poverty: UNCTAD report

Families will be pushed deeper into poverty as the current employment decline is biggest since World War II, according to the report

Environmental crimes threaten global security, says UN

Illegal forestry and ivory products worth up to US $213 billion a year are helping fund terrorists, militants and criminals

Indian companies' CDM projects pollute environment

Most clean projects cleared on face value and are based on tall claims

COVID-19: 300,000 seafarers need flights for crew changes, says UNCTAD estimate

About half the seafarers will have to travel home by air for repatriation, while the other half will need to join ships for work

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Investments in Indian renewable energy sector declining

Is it a temporary phase?

Channelling of Green Climate Fund begins; fund board identifies seven entities

Process has begun months before COP 21 in Paris where countries will negotiate the new climate deal

Migration reduces transmission of pathogens between species: UN Report

The migration behaviours of several species is changing because of man-made factors like climate change and habitat loss