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.

Environmental protection is critical to maintain ecosystem services essential for human well-being. It is important to be able to rank countries by their environmental impact so that poor performers as well as policy ‘models’ can be identified.

Air quality management in cities have been traditionally evaluated using the good versus bad list analysis

Hundreds of millions of indigenous women and men throughout the world manage their forests and crops sustainably, and in this way contribute to the sequestration of greenhouse gases. However, maintaining control over their land and forests in the face of colonial and corporate attempts to nationalise or privatise them has been a historic struggle.

National and international health policies tend to equate the

This document provides an analysis of capacity development for
biodiversity and ecosystem services with a view to facilitating discussions at the third ad hoc intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services.

This report contains an assessment of the threat facing the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region from the recent (post-1950s) and rapid formation of meltwater lakes on the surface or at the end of a large number of the region's glaciers.

This new report by HFP warns that Hindu-Kush Himalaya region, the so-called Third Pole is a

Wetlands contribute to the livelihoods of millions of people but are threatened due to population pressure, unsustainable agriculture, exploitation of resources and upstream diversions of water. IWMI works to increase knowledge on the global extent of wetlands, the natural services they provide and how they can
be used sustainably to reduce poverty in local communities.

Local governments play an important role in promoting low-carbon development; however their role could be significantly enhanced by greater international co-operation between cities. There

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