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 …
Researchers say the fruit grown could be a replacement for staple crops under threat from climate change. It’s big and bumpy with a gooey interior and a powerful smell of decay — but it could help keep millions of people from hunger. Researchers say jackfruit — a large ungainly fruit …
The countries of the world have dragged their feet so long on global warming that the situation is now critical, experts appointed by the United Nations reported on Sunday, and only an intensive worldwide push over the next 15 years can stave off potentially disastrous climatic changes later in the …
New Delhi: Nearly two weeks after predicting a bleak future for the world due to global warming, a UN panel on Sunday came out with yet another alarming report, telling the global community that emissions of climate-damaging greenhouse gases (GHGs) have increased substantially despite reduction measures by different countries. In …
New Delhi: Just a week ahead of the release of a crucial report of a UN panel on impact of climate change on food, water and other resources, the World Meteorological Organization has set the tone. Sounding a note of caution, it said that “13 of the 14 warmest years” …
The United Nations and the World Bank on Wednesday announced a concerted effort by governments, international agencies, civil society and the private sector to scale up financing to provide sustainable energy for all, with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling for massive new investments in the face of a rising "global …
Fraught UN climate talks revealed growing frustration this week among vulnerable nations and observers with the political stance of emerging economies like China and India in the battle to stave off dangerous Earth warming. As the global balance of economic and political clout shifts, the world of climate negotiations is …
WARSAW: Fraught UN climate talks revealed growing frustration this week among vulnerable nations and observers with the political stance of emerging economies like China and India in the battle to stave off dangerous Earth warming. As the global balance of economic and political clout shifts, the world of climate negotiations …
Environment ministers and officials at the United Nations climate change talk straining through 24 hours of non-stop negotiations in Warsaw stared at the limited choices before them – either a complete collapse of the negotiations or the passage of such a weak set of decisions that no country would lose …
SYDNEY: Wildfires are "absolutely" linked to global warming and increasingly intense heatwaves, the UN climate chief has said, as bushfires burned out of control in Australia. The comments come as debate rages in Australia -- whose new Prime Minister Tony Abbott once described the science behind man-made climate change as …
STOCKHOLM: The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opened a meeting on Monday in Stockholm that is scheduled to see the release of the most recent projections of the pace of global warming. The organisation, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, brings together thousands of scientists and is …
PARIS: A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they put the final touches to the first volume of a massive report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change. Due to be unveiled in Stockholm on September 27, the …
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Thursday said the death of 23 children at Chapra in Bihar after eating school meal contaminated with monocrotophos was an important reminder to speed up the withdrawal of highly hazardous pesticides from markets in the developing countries. Monocrotophos is an organophosphorus …
New Delhi: Lessons have not been learnt from past disasters, it seems. Delhi Metro, which ferries over two million passengers a day, is on a highrisk earthquake and flood zone and may lead to a huge loss of life in case of a disaster, says a recently released UN report …
New Delhi: A United Nations (UN) report h as warned India that it is at greater risk by opting for public private partnership (PPP) mode of investment for raising its public infrastructure where the government has less control over its executing private partners and the l atter has little interest …
Global food production has already appropriated almost half the land suitable for agriculture. And there is no adding to that because the remainder supports the world’s surviving natural ecosystems vital to our future and that of our planet. We have no other option but to zealously protect every field and …
Tata PowerBSE -0.11 % today said its 50.4 MW wind energy project in Karnataka has been registered under the United Nation's clean development mechanism programme. "The Gadag plant helps in reducing an annual average of 99,100 tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent, by producing 107,064 MWh per year (average) equivalent amount of …
The world has an astonishing chance to take a billion people out of extreme poverty by 2030. In September 2000 the heads of 147 governments pledged that they would halve the proportion of people on the Earth living in the direst poverty by 2015, using the poverty rate in 1990 …
OSLO: Big companies should report their impact on the environment in addition to their earnings under a UN plan to boost economic growth and ease poverty by 2030, according to recommendations by a panel of world leaders issued on Thursday. A final draft by a group including British Prime Minister …
Malnutrition in children at the start of life severely impairs their learning ability affecting their literacy and then affects their earning ability later in life, according to a study commissioned by a British charity. The report has for the first time highlighted the extent to which a child’s brain can …
The Fisheries Act will be amended to punish those violating international maritime laws, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Minister Dr Rajitha Senaratne said. The new laws are to be in line with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the principles of the Indian Ocean Tuna …
