Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data released today by UNDP and UN Women from the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker. The tracker, which includes over 2,500 …
The climate vulnerable countries like Bangladesh will speak up with one voice for global support for climate change adaptation at the oncoming Durban climate summit this December, two ministers said at a press conference yesterday. Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and State Minister for Environment and Forests Dr Hasan Mahmud addressed …
Planners and urban experts on Sunday warned that climate change and sea level rise would displace 30 per cent of country’s population who would be forced come to the cities for their survival. To meet the challenge of climate change and growing influx of climate refugees to the cities, the …
Smart cards already in use for the insurance scheme for the poor can also be used to transfer food subsidy The government of India’s Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)… is now internationally recognised for its innovative approach to harnessing information technology to reach the poor, says the World Bank in …
The Kodigahakanda forest in the Olabouwa North Grama Niladhari division in Horana will be declared a sanctuary in November under the Forest Conservation Department, MEDEF President K.Munagama told the Daily News. "This is the first wildlife sanctuary in the Kalutara district," he said. Kodigahakanda bio-diversity centre at Gonapola was opened …
Global investment in clean energy rose to a record $243 billion dollars last year with the vast majority concentrated in the world's top 20 economies, the United Nations said Wednesday. Many countries are struggling with the breakneck increase in climate change financing, however, according to a new UN Development Program …
When the state forest department embarked on a project to make water hyacinth an economic resource, it did not know that with this weed, it was not only sowing seeds of women empowerment and clean ecology but also setting a milestone. Seeing the successful run of Punjab’s project of converting …
TNPCB official advocates use of bio-degradable materials The recovery system to extract hazardous metals from electronic wastes has to be improved in the State, according to R.Ramachandran, Member Secretary, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). While there were 12 units for segregating e-wastes and exporting them for recovery of toxic …
The United Nations Development Programme and the Ministryof Tourism, Arts and Culture have signed a project amounting to US $ 3.3 million today,to help the tourism sector adapt and prepare for the negative effects of climate change. The project, ‘Increasing Climate Change Resilience of Maldives through Adaptation inthe Tourism Sector’ …
Even as results of a pilot study on direct cash transfers in lieu of rations are still awaited, postal staff in Delhi are getting slum-dwellers to open accounts. “We are being asked to pay Rs 50 and submit two photos, after which money will be transferred in our post office …
Bangladesh along with other 12 countries celebrated Global Tiger Day on Friday with a call for an increase in the number of tigers in their natural habitat. Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, China, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Russia observed the day. In the Global Tiger Summit held …
The number of recent recoveries of tiger skin and bones in and around the Sundarbans apparently dooms the government initiatives to save the Bengal Tigers and their habitat. Experts say though the government has created much hype about conservation of the mangrove forest and the Bengal Tigers, international demands for …
In a startling comparison between the state of glaciers in the Himalayan ranges in the last 50 years, glaciologists say nearly 65 per cent glaciers are melting due to global warming.
Bangladesh should go for calculating disaster losses so that it could make prior investments to reduce peoples' vulnerabilities and economic losses caused by disasters, experts said yesterday. While casualty rate from disasters came down in Bangladesh and elsewhere, financial loses from a large proportion of damage to local infrastructure, housing …
One more biodiversity project at Sindhudurg in Malvan, Maharastra RAMANATHAPURAM: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has sanctioned a community-based natural resource management and mangrove conservation project in Godavari estuary, Andhra Pradesh, similar to the Gulf of Mannar Marine Conservation Project in Tamil Nadu. Speaking to The Hindu, Doley Tshering, …
The Integrated Land and Ecosystem Management Project is being implemented by the Forest Department in Madhya Pradesh with the cooperation of Global Environmental Facility. The project is being implemented in nine forest divisions of Betul, Chhindwara, Umaria, Sidhi and Singrauli districts. The five-year project will be implemented till the year …
United Nation Development Programme's India Urban Poverty Report, 2009 has pegged the number of slum dwellers in Uttar Pradesh at 44 lakh. The sample survey, which was conducted under the 58th round of the National Sample Survey Organisation, also suggests that UP is next only to Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, …
Latin American countries were the first to flirt with the conditional cash transfer model. It evolved in response to the economic crisis of the 1990s. Many governments found that in the face of the crisis the poor were not availing themselves of education and health services. At the same time …
The worst ever floods in a century, have affected more than one million people or one-twentieth of the population, according to latest statistics released by the Disaster Management Centre last afternoon. Twenty three people have died in flood related incidents while 36 have been injured and one reported missing. UN …
