Zimbabwe: 'Engage in Climate-Smart Agric'
Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has called for change in agricultural practices from conventional systems to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) which builds resilience and
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Zero budget natural farming for the Sustainable Development Goals, Andhra Pradesh, India
The Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) programme in Andhra Pradesh can help six million farm families in the state and make significant progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), said
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Ten actions for financing water infrastructure
“Ten Actions for Financing Infrastructure” identifies a set of actions to help bridge the financing gap for water infrastructure. The report highlights the innovative operational and practical functions
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Pricing reforms for sustainable water use and management in Vietnam
This study provides guidance on pricing policy reform to promote sustainable and socially inclusive water use and management in Vietnam. The study considers investment needs in the water sector, and reviews
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Policy coherence of the Sustainable Development Goals: a natural resource perspective
As the world prepares to adopt a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNEP's International Resource Panel (IRP) cautions that unless prudent natural resources management becomes an integral
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Climate meet seeks ‘highest commitment’ from all nations
Nearly 80 heads of states or ministers are attending the two-day high-level segment of the annual climate change conference whose start last week coincided with the US elections. FACED WITH the prospect
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Familiar faces: Dow Jones reveals world's most sustainable companies
Unilever, LG and Sodexo have retained positions as industry leaders of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), while the likes of Nestlé and Philips have climbed to the top of the rankings. The 2016
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Sustainable transport on course while Warsaw wobbles
A summary of the proceedings from the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 19) in Warsaw, Poland, and progress on the post 2015 sustainable development agenda and their significance for land transport.
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Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2015: facts and trends at the outset of the 2030 Development Agenda
The Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2015 is a reference of current and emerging trends of economic, social and environmental development in Asia and the Pacific For the first time the Yearbook
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Social inclusion, poverty eradication and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
This paper argues that there are three key interrelated areas that are critical for poverty eradication and inclusive development, which include: universal social protection; meaningful participation;
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The SDGs at city level: Mumbai's example
With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) now agreed, the real test of their success lies in their implementation. Over half the world's population now live in cities and by 2050 this will rise to
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Sustainable development framework (SDF) for Indian mining sector
This report is the final sustainable development framework for the mining sector for the Ministry of Mines and the last deliverable of Phase I under the contract signed between the Ministry and ERM India
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Tamil Nadu gathering data on climate change-prone areas for the web
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government is mapping the areas across the state, which are vulnerable to climate change by collating data and feeding it in a Tamil Nadu State Climate Change Knowledge Management
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Germany faces risks, higher costs without focus on green finance: report
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany faces growing risks and high costs if it does not revamp its financial system to focus more on climate change and sustainability, according to a new report by the World Wildlife
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The food-energy-water nexus as a lens for delivering the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in Southern Africa
On 1 January 2016, implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was officially started. Meeting the 2030 targets in southern Africa – a region where common development challenges result
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Commodities and development report 2017: commodity markets, economic growth and developmen
Without a renewed commitment to policy change, commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs) are by 2030 set to lag behind countries with more diverse economies in their social and economic achievements,
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Reviving land and restoring landscapes: policy convergence between forest landscape restoration and land degradation neutrality
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) continue to influence global development policy in the coming decade. Under SDG15, Target 15.3 calls to “combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil,
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World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018
An upturn in the global economy—now growing by about 3 per cent—paves the way to reorient policy towards longer-term issues such as addressing climate change, tackling existing inequalities and removing
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Actions to Transform Food Systems Under Climate Change
<p>Our food systems are failing us. This is the overarching message from the wealth of literature on food systems. Analysis by Bene and colleagues finds that this growing body of literature focuses on
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Kullu hotels: NGT asks to include scientist in joint inspection team
SHIMLA: Considering threat to sustainable development with unplanned, unregulated and illegal expansion of hospitality industry in Kullu and Manali, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Himachal