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Water is critical to sustainable development, says UN report
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">Increasing ubanisation and industrialisation are widening the rift
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Given up
Shankar Sharma, vice-chairman of National Planning Commission (NPC) of Nepal, recently admitted that the country would be unable to achieve the Millennium Development Goals if the Maoist activity
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Bangladesh State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, March, 2014
<p>With release of genetically modified Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation Bangladesh is first country in the South Asia to cultivate any genetically modified food crop. Read more in this March 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bangladesh.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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Report on the state of food insecurity in urban India
<p><span id="itro1">This new report on the state of food insecurity in urban India by MSSRF shows that the period of economic reforms and high GDP growth has not seen an unambiguous improvement in urban food security across all States.</span></p>
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To sensitive the wealthy
www.first8.org At this year's UN Commission of Sustainable Development's meet in New York (April 19 to 30), progress on millennium development goals (MDGs) related to clean drinking water,
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Slum dwellers are a neglected lot
ANNA KAJUMULO TIBAIJUKA, executive director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme speaks to NIDHI JAMWAL
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Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2020
<p>The overall maternal mortality rate dropped by 34.3 per cent over a 20-year period -- from 339 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2000 to 223 maternal deaths in 2020, according to this report by the World Health Organization and other UN agencies.</p>
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Water, loo
Priorities, post WSSD
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WB move on child education programme
The World Bank has invited 23 countries to join the Education For All Fast Track aimed at helping developing countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of providing every child with primary
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$60 b required for human development goals: World Bank
The rich countries need to provide an additional aid to the tune of $40-60 billion in order to achieve the objectives set by Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for human development, in the
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US derails UN declaration
Rejects key clauses on debt, trade, climate change
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Amidst water managers
The Stockholm Water Week brought together a wealth of ideas
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The jinx of 13 sustained
The 13th session of the un Commission for Sustainable Development (csd), which steers the development agenda agreed upon at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992, was a damp squib. The 11-day meet
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Stingy lenders
World Bank and IMF oppose increasing debt relief to Africa
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Climate summit should reflect needs of emerging nations: CII
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has called for efforts by both developing and developed nations to intensify efforts for developing a low carbon economy in the backdrop of the Copenhagen climate change summit. Developing countries such as India have a responsibility to their citizens to grow rapidly to meet and exceed the UN Millennium goals.
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Gurugram may soon be ‘living hell’
The Millennium City’s woes include depleting groundwater table, pollution and poor waste management Gurugram, or the Millennium City as it often called, may soon become “a living hell” if it doesn’t
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Large-scale promotion of animal-dung based domestic biogas digesters through public private partnership: A successful case of Nepal
<p>Large-scale promotion of small scale decentralized renewable energy technologies to achieve a part of millennium development goal remained a great challenge until recently.
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'UN goal of 15% rate of poverty is realised'
The UN millennium development goal of achieving the 15% poverty rate by 2015 has already been realised, a former World Bank official has claimed even as the bank pointed out that the world was a long
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Bangladesh State of the Environment Report : The Monthly Overview, September 2013
<p>Brick makers in Bangladesh using conventional methods blamed for polluting the air, now seek two more years to be ready for conversion into environment-friendly technologies though they have already enjoyed around three years for this. Read more in this first Monthly Bangladesh State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. September 2013 Edition is out! Download, Read and Share. Happy reading!</p>