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 …
With a slogan of "Development without destruction", India's message to the UN Climate Change Summit is that it will take on the twin challenges of fighting poverty and climate change. India will have to increase its energy consumption if it is to significantly improve the lives of its people, but …
Last year, the people of China emitted more carbon per person than those in the EU, according this year's Global Carbon Budget. The report, updated annually, also found that global emissions jumped 2.5 percent last year and are set to hit a record high of 40 billion tonnes this year. …
The widow of Nelson Mandela punctured the self-congratulatory mood of the UN summit on Tuesday, saying world leaders had failed to rise to the challenge of climate change. "There is a huge mismatch between the magnitude of the challenge and the response we heard here today," Graça Machel told the …
In a blow to American hopes of reaching an international deal to fight global warming, India’s new environment minister said Wednesday that his country would not offer a plan to cut its greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a climate summit next year in Paris. The minister, Prakash Javadekar, said in …
The largest gathering of world leaders on climate change opened at the United Nations on Tuesday facing calls for action to put the planet on course towards reversing global warming. “Today, we must set the world on a new course,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told leaders from 120 countries. …
As world leaders assembled in US to give a political push to their efforts to deal with climate change, India is all set to make its 'right to grow' points at the New York Climate Summit, which was kicked off by the UN secretary-general Ban-Ki-moon on Tuesday. The country's environment …
As the much awaited Climate Summit opened in New York on Tuesday with a strong appeal from UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon for action from one and all to protect the world, India is expected to make a pitch for 'right to grow' for poor nations while showing its eagerness …
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday a new global agreement on climate change must include strong commitments from emerging economies and move past the rich-poor country divide that has hampered progress in United Nations negotiations. Obama addressed the UN climate change summit with a statement meant to build political …
The largest gathering of world leaders on climate change opened at the United Nations on Tuesday amid calls for action to put the planet on course toward reversing global warming. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is hosting the summit of 120 leaders, the first high-level gathering since the Copenhagen conference …
NEW YORK: World leaders including UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon were set to join farmers, fishermen, children and others in a massive demonstration on Sunday to demand action on climate change. Organizers are expecting 100,000 to join the People's Climate March in midtown Manhattan ahead of this week's UN general …
On SEPTEMBER 23rd 120-odd presidents and prime ministers will gather in New York for a UN meeting on climate change. It is the first time the subject has brought so many leaders together since the ill-fated Copenhagen summit of 2009. Now, as then, they will assert that reining in global …
Indian officials advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to skip this month’s United Nations climate summit, telling him the largest such gathering of world leaders was “not important,” the Economic Times reported. Modi, who took office in May, was told by environment ministry officials that he “should not attend” because it …
A collection of 160 of the world's top environmentalists have taken a full page advert in the New York Times to call on philanthropists and charities to use their funds to tackle global warming ahead of next week's UN Climate Summit in New York. Known as the Environmental Laureates, the …
The world's six multilateral development banks promised on Thursday to do more to help emerging nations fight climate change as part of efforts to reinvigorate flagging work on a U.N. deal to limit temperature rises. In a statement before a Sept. 23 summit on global warming to be hosted by …
In the context of falling sex ratios in India, a United Nations report points to a new level of ‘daughter aversion,’ most starkly visible in the negligible number of girls-only families in some parts of the country. “Sex Ratios and Gender Based Sex Selection, History Debates and Future Directions” by …
(Reuters) - Norway will buy 21 million U.N. backed certified emission reductions (CERs) for an average price of 2.28 euros each in its international tender to purchase carbon offsets, said the financial institution in charge of the deal on Monday. The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO), which manages the tender …
UN urges final push on global targets that have shown little improvement, notably those related to women and children. Achieving global targets to reduce maternal and child deaths and increase access to improved sanitation facilities by 2015 is "slipping away", despite significant progress in the past 14 years, the UN …
UN's Post-2015 Development Agenda will focus more on environmental protection programmes, a media report said Monday. UN Special Advisor to the Executive Director on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Maryam Niamir-Fuller Sunday said that this move will ensure that global development efforts do not degrade the environment, Xinhua reported. The Post-2015 …
Indonesia's Borneo island shows the clearing of trees on a peatland forest located in Central Kalimantan in February. The area is being developed for a palm oil plantation. These must be rough days for climate change fatalists. Solar and wind power costs have plunged. Companies compete for climate bragging rights. …
A man takes a photograph standing in front of a structure covered with an image of the Hong Kong island skyline at the waterfront in the Tsim Sha Tsui area on Aug. 22, 2013. United Nations carbon regulators will consider new rules next month to make it easier for China …
