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 …
The total volume of water on earth: 104 crore km3. The volume of accessible freshwater: 90 lakh km3. In a few decades, that might not be enough to sustain the entire humanity, warn UN agencies.
U.S. climate negotiators here gave the first broad hints of a new policy on global warming, but they provided few specifics, noting that a more detailed proposal would be submitted this month. Jonathan Pershing, deputy special envoy for climate change, said in a final news conference here Wednesday that the …
With the world in economic recession, there is a temptation to downgrade or sideline climate change. That would be a great mistake. The gathering of 2,000 scientists in Copenhagen in March found the climate change situation much worse than previously reported. They called on politicians to act quickly and decisively. …
One of the world's biggest owners of oil and gas tankers has become the first major operator to announce plans to enter the market to transport captured carbon dioxide. Maersk Tankers, part of Denmark's AP Moller-Maersk, said demand for the service could be vast - around 750m tonnes of carbon …
The world's population will hit seven billion early in 2012 and top nine billion in 2050, with the vast majority of the increase coming in the developing countries of Asia and Africa, according to a new UN estimate, The Associated Press reported from the United Nations, New York. Hania Zlotnik, …
Despite years of study and analysis, the world is unprepared for climate change and needs to rethink basic assumptions that govern things as varied as choosing cars and building bridges, the National Research Council reported Thursday. Current building, land use and planning practices assume a continuation of climate as it …
More than 600 self-professed climate skeptics are meeting in New York this week to challenge what has become a broad scientific and political consensus: that without big changes in energy choices, humans will dangerously heat up the planet. The three-day International Conference on Climate Change - organized by the Heartland …
The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit brought the crisis of climate change sharply into focus The threat held out by climate change is eliciting enough concern worldwide to have drawn some 700 stakeholders from India and overseas to a three-day conference in New Delhi last fortnight. Organised by The Energy and …
Economic stimulus plans being rolled out across the world could commit countries to rapid growth in greenhouse gas emissions, cancelling out some of the green initiatives included within them, analysis has found. The packages of tax cuts, credits and extra spending have been trumpeted for their environmental credentials by the …
Until recently, the idea that the world's most powerful nations might come together to tackle global warming seemed an environmentalist's pipe dream. The Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, was widely viewed as badly flawed. Many countries that had signed the accord lagged far behind their targets in curbing carbon dioxide …
Barun Roy / New Delhi November 20, 2008, 0:14 IST Three million people are migrating to cities in developing countries every week - a third of which are slums already. An event of profound significance to humanity happened as UN-Habitat
BY YOJNA GUSAI NEW DELHI India is going to take up the issue of financial package for developing nations for technology transfer at the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting, scheduled for December in Poznan, Poland. India said it is taking
Why a verdant New Deal would be a bad deal Two pressing problems face the world: economic meltdown and global warming. Conveniently, a solution presents itself that apparently solves both: governments should invest heavily in green technology, thus boosting demand while transforming the energy business. This notion is gaining credence …
When it comes to public services like access to water and sanitation, it has been proved that turning to the private sector is hardly the solution. Public Public Partnerships (PUPs), on the other hand, have achieved remarkable successes worldwide by forging open, democratic and dynamic relationships between State institutions and …
Sandeep Dikshit NEW DELHI: The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on Thursday hoped that the upcoming meeting of world leaders in Washington on November 15 would take measures to minimise the risk of financial crises impacting poverty alleviation and climate change goals.
At first glance, clean technology, which either improves the efficiency or reduces the environmental impact of energy-related products, appears to be a booming industry. It is estimated to be worth $150bn now but will reach $600bn by 2020, a United Nations report says. Investments are being made in a huge …
Biofuels are doing more harm than good, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday, in its strongest call yet to review "current policies supporting, subsidising and mandating biofuel production and use". The FAO said the production of biofuels from agricultural commodities such as corn and soyabean was leading …
ROME: A UN agency called on Tuesday for an urgent review of agriculture and biofuel subsidies and trade barriers, saying their removal would increase opportunities for developing countries to take advantage of rising biofuel demand. Imposing price controls and export bans prevents markets from adjusting and may prolong and deepen …
