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 …
Priscilla JebarajNEW DELHI: Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, will be one of the 21 members of the United Nations' (UN) newly formed High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.Mr. Ramesh was invited to serve on the panel by UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon. It will be co-chaired by …
More than half a million people trapped by floods in north-west Pakistan are facing increasingly desperate conditions as monsoon rains prevent helicopters from reaching the worst-hit areas. The UN warned on Sunday that the number of people affected by the worst floods in living memory has risen to 6m from …
UN climate talks have moved backward rather than forward towards a hoped-for deal later in 2010 as nations make slow progress on pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions and add more proposals to the working document.As talks in Bonn on a new climate treaty drew to an end on Friday, …
John Vidal A waste-picker at work in Mumbai. Waste-pickers handle much of the growing mountains of rubbish in developing countries. The waste-pickers who scour the world's rubbish dumps and daily recycle thousands of tonnes of metal, paper and plastics are up in arms against the U.N., which they claim is …
International conference on AIDS in Vienna VIENNA: Anti-HIV drugs reached 1.2 million more people last year, the U.N. announced on Monday at the world AIDS forum, as the former U.S. President, Bill Clinton, defended Barack Obama's funding to fight the disease. The increase meant that 5.2 million people had access …
Jason Burke Madhya Pradesh, Democratic Republic of Congo show near identical poverty level, say researchers New Delhi: New U.N. index builds up fuller picture of poor lives; Madhya Pradesh
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Rising food prices and growing unemployment across South Asia has created a crisis situation where India is unlikely to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for poverty alleviation. The United Nations annual MDG report, aimed to act as a wake-up call for nations, raises a …
New Delhi: The number of poor people in India is expected to halve by 2015, according to the 2010 Millennium Development Goals report released on Wednesday. The poverty rate in the country is slated to decline from 51% of the population in 1990 to 24% over the next five years. …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: India is expected to reduce its poverty rate from 51 per cent in 1990 to 24 per cent in 2015, slashing the number of extremely poor by 188 million. But progress in the rest of South Asia is not sufficient to halve the level of poverty …
Almost six projects in Pakistan have been registered with the United Nation (UN) for controlling carbon emission. Around 16 more projects are under validation for registration with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a branch of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These would be registered projects include hydropower …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: A United Nations report has called upon governments in the Asia-Pacific region to increase social spending to consolidate the region's stronger than anticipated economic rebound and to spur over the long term a fairer, more balanced, and sustained economic recovery. The Economic and Social Survey of …
A.V. Ragunathan CUDDALORE: A three-member United Nations team led by Oliver de Schutter, Special Rapporteur for Right to Food, on Wednesday visited some villages to assess the impact of SIPCOT industries on the livelihood of farmers and fishermen. Mr. Schutter told reporters that the industrial estates/zones had disrupted the livelihood …
More than 110 nations, including top greenhouse gas emitters led by China and the United States, back the non-binding Copenhagen Accord for combating climate change, according to a first formal UN list on Wednesday. The list, of countries from Albania to Zambia, helps end weeks of uncertainty about support for …
