Energy

Renewable energy country attractiveness index

This publication ranks 40 countries on the attractiveness of their renewable energy investment and deployment opportunities, based on a number of macro, energy market and technology-specific indicators.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2013
Ernst & Young
Tags:
Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, Industry, Subsidies, India, Global, Finance, Climate Change, Carbon Tax
People

The State of the World’s Children 2013: children with disabilities

The State of the World’s Children 2013: Children with Disabilities examines the barriers – from inaccessible buildings to dismissive attitudes, from invisibility in official statistics to vicious discrimination – that deprive children with disabilities of their rights and keep them from participating fully in society.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2013
UNICEF
Tags:
Children, Physical Disability, Immunisation, Nutrition, Sanitation, Diseases, Education, Child Health, Drinking Water, India, Global
Natural Disasters

Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction 2013

This new UN report explores why increasing disaster risks represent a growing problem for the economic & business community and provides a review of practices that can reduce their risk of disaster loss. It is based on review of disaster losses in 56 countries.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2013
UNISDR
Tags:
Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Management, Natural Disasters, India, Global, Globalisation, Urbanisation, Agriculture, Food Security, Economic Development
Health

World health statistics 2013

World Health Statistics 2013 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2013
World Health Organization
Tags:
Health, Statistics, India, Global, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Child Health, Medical Systems
Water Supply

Progress on sanitation and drinking-water: 2013 update

This is the latest publication by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. The report details global progress towards the MDG target for drinking water and sanitation, and what these trends suggest for the remainder of the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2013
UNICEF
Tags:
Water Supply, Sanitation, Drinking Water, India, Global, Rural Sanitation, Urban Sanitation, Water Quality, Health
Climate Change

WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2012

2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record despite the cooling influence of a La Niña episode early in the year acording to this WMO statement on the status of the global climate.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2013
World Meteorological Organization
Tags:
Climate, Climate Change, India, Global, Extreme Weather Events, Atmosphere, Green House Gases, Ozone, Heat Waves
Energy

Now, India takes US to WTO over green energy

US had made similar complaint against India in February

Two months after it was taken to the World Trade Organization by the US government on the renewable energy (RE) sector, the Indian government has done likewise. It has made a complaint to WTO’s dispute settlement body, alleging the US, both at the federal and state levels, is offering subsidy programmes in the sector for local content requirements, making the entry of Indian companies difficult and breaching global trading rules.

Publication Date: 
22/04/2013
Nayanima Basu
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, United States Of America (US), WTO, Renewable Energy, Global, Trade, Power Industry, Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), Australia, Japan, Energy
Health

Polio’s moving target

A 25-year, US$10-billion global effort has taken the number of polio cases from hundreds of thousands per year to just hundreds, but it is now struggling to stamp the virus out of its final strongholds in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, where transmission has never been interrupted. Of these, Nigeria was the only one to see an increase in cases from 2011 to 2012, and public-health experts worry that the virus's recalcitrance here will prevent global eradication, and eventually lead to a wider resurgence of the disease.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2013
Ewen Callaway
Nature
496
290-292
Tags:
Polio, Vaccination, Nigeria, Health Care, Child Health, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Migration, Religious Beliefs, Viral Diseases, WHO, Global, Africa, Chad, Nomads
Habitat And Urbanisation

Global monitoring report 2013: rural-urban dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals

The 2013 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) marks the tenth edition of the GMR since the inception of the report in 2004. The GMR continues to provide an annual assessment of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Publication Date: 
17/04/2013
The World Bank
Tags:
Urbanisation, Poverty, India, Global, Slums, Sustainable Development, Environment, Economy, Trade, Aid, Developing Countries, Rural Poverty, Education, Malnutrition, Children, Women, Infant mortality, Maternal Health, Diseases, Water Supply, Sanitation
Environment

Natural capital at risk: the top 100 externalities of business

A new report by the TEEB for Business Coalition estimates the global top 100 environmental externalities are costing the economy world-wide around US$4.7 trillion a year in terms of the economic costs of GHG emissions, loss of natural resources, loss of nature-based services, climate change & air pollution-related health cos

Publication Date: 
15/04/2013
TEEB for Business Coalition
Tags:
Environment, Industry, Finance, Environment Economics, Land Use, Water Pollution, Green House Gases, Water Supply, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Economy, India, Global, Ecosystems

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