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
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
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
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 …
UN report forecasts positive growth outlook for India; pegs 2016 growth at 7.6 per cent
Report, however, warns that high levels of stressed bank assets and fragile business confidence could constrain investment growth
UN asks nations to prepare climate plans by March
Christiana Figueres calls for achieving climate neutrality in the second half of the century
7th GEF Assembly: Member countries get together to ratify Global Biodiversity Framework Fund
Momentum set in Vancouver crucial for achieving the biodiversity and sustainable development goals by 2030
Reverse land use change to prevent zoonoses like COVID-19: UNCCD
Land use degradation creates ground for zoonotic disease like COVID-19 as the interaction and physical distance between animals and humans …
Secondary education can reduce child marriage by 66%: UNICEF
Secondary education stronger, more consistent protection against child marriage than primary school education
Desertification in India: Ananthapuramu in Andhra is so sandy it draws filmmakers to shoot
Dwindling rainfall, dependence on borewell for water-guzzling horticulture increase soil aridity
COVID-19 vaccine for all: WHO releases guidelines for manufactures, countries with high coverage
WHO has set a vaccination target of 40 per cent population of every country by end-2021 and 70 per cent by mid-2022
Dramatic changes needed in global food systems to address nutrition disparity, poverty: IFAD
The report Transforming Food Systems for Rural Prosperity called for investment in rural farms and local small- and medium-size enterprises
Climate crisis putting a billion children at ‘extremely high risk,’ warns new UN report
Almost half of the world’s children are seriously threatened by the rapidly deteriorating global climate
Religious leaders pledge to alleviate poverty
They also declared they would do all they could to support the new SDGs, aimed at lifting millions of people out of poverty and creating a …
How can humans & animals exist more peacefully? Global conference tries to find solutions
International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence is being held in Oxford, the United Kingdom
Demand for fresh water to be 40% higher than supply by end of decade: UNGA president
Csaba Kőrösi said main task of upcoming UN Water Conference will be to find game changers for water management
What makes one poor in India
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022 shows lack of access to nutrition, fuel, housing and sanitation keeps millions in poverty
2022 voluntary national reviews stark illustration of setbacks wrought by COVID-19: UN
World halfway through to the UN’s 2030 Agenda; but it is not the halfway world imagined in 2015, when the Agenda was floated, says Amina …
UN Ocean Conference: 198 countries adopt Lisbon Declaration
Members envisioned preventing and reducing marine pollution, capacity building in developing countries
Increase in disasters leads to spike in intentional homicides of women: UN Report
The correlation between the number of people affected by disaster and the number of female victims of intentional homicide was found to be the …
WHO begins monitoring two new variants of COVID-19 named BA.4 and BA.5
The move comes in the footsteps of the global health body declaring two more variants in circulation named XE and XD
Convention on Biological Diversity: Draft recommendation to focus on One Health approach, COVID-19
The draft also addressed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health, well-being and biodiversity
Mercury pollution: Parties to Minamata Convention discuss non-binding declaration but can it help
United Nations, Indonesia call for support from parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury