The UN’s trade and development body has downgraded its global economic growth projection for 2022 to 2.6% from 3.6% due to the Ukraine war and to changes in macroeconomic policies made by countries in recent months. While Russia will experience a deep recession this year, significant slowdowns in growth are …
AMC Signs Kyoto Declaration in Seoul Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: The six-monthold Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), popularly known as Janmarg, is taking Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to places. Recently, the case study of Janmarg was discussed during
Narayan Lakshman It will be conducted by the Inter Academy Council, an international scientific organisation Washington DC: The United Nations has initiated, in tandem with the Chair of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
New Delhi, March 11: The review of the error ridden fourth Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been handed over to the Inter-Academy Council (IAC), a scientific organisation bringing together experts from 15 countries, to be led by IAC co-chairs Robbert Dijkgraaf, who heads the Royal Netherlands Academy of …
The United Nations on Wednesday launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has come under much criticism in the recent months. The decision was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri in the wake of a report by the body …
Olivier De Schutter is the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food. He aims to inform people at the highest political levels about the role that smallholders play in the world
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged environment ministers on Wednesday to reject attempts by sceptics to undermine efforts to forge a climate change deal, stressing that global warming poses "a clear and present danger." In a message read by a UN official, Mr Ban referred to a still-burning controversy over …
Conflict of interest in formulating climate policy and heading TERIi, which gets sizeable research funding in areas like glaciology and renewable energy and is a big player in green business opportunities.
In a bid to help fill scientific knowledge gap at the sub-regional level, India for the first time has agreed to provide key institutional inputs to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Fifth Assessment Report, due in 2014. The Union Environment Ministry, in October last year, had …
NEW DELHI: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R.K. Pachauri, battling calls for resignation due to a mistake in the IPCC report on Himalayan glaciers, found support from both the United Nation
The UN has received pledges from 55 countries, accounting for 78 per cent of global emissions, to cut their share of greenhouse gases by 2050, a development welcomed by the world body as an ''important invigoration'' to the Copenhagen climate talks. Some of the world's biggest polluters, the US, China, …
The number of people in southern Sudan in need of food assistance has more than quadrupled from almost one million in 2009 to 4.3 million this year because of conflict and drought, the U.N. food agency said on Tuesday. WFP said in a statement issued in Nairobi that the agency …
RASHME SEHGAL India, being a major IT destination, is presently producing 400,000 tonnes of e-waste annually The campaign launched by civil society groups against the huge quantities of toxic waste being generated in India has forced the United Nations to send UN special rapporteur Okechukwu Ibeanu to get a first …
Ever since his second term as prime minister began in May, Manmohan Singh has been out on foreign tours so often that in South Block he is now jocularly known as the 'Flying Sikh'--a sobriquet reserved for India's most famous athlete of the 1960s. In June, Manmohan was in the …
IN THE old days, the job of eradicating disease fell to governments and inter-governmental bodies. Then charities, often led by celebrities or entrepreneurs, joined in. Finally, in the Western world at least, governments accepted the need to pool their efforts with those of private donors, big and small. The effort …
FACED with the undoubted grandeur of climate change, a grand response seems in order. But, to the immediate disappointment to most of those participating and watching, the much anticipated UN climate conference held in Copenhagen in December led to no such thing. Initial ambitions for a legally binding agreement with …
