Rapid population growth, industrialization, and urbanization combined with delayed enactment of environmental policies have led to serious air quality problems across Asia.
The world is facing a red alert for children’s health: Vaccination coverage dropped sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving millions more children unprotected against some of childhood’s most serious diseases.
This book presents 10 efficient, cost-effective and custom-made solutions that have been tested in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region and are suitable for up-scaling and out-scaling to other regions.
Complex climate risks that are transboundary and cascading remain a blind spot in climate policy. This report draws on case studies to explore 10 transboundary climate risks of global importance. This report by Adaptation Without Borders rings the alarm bell on transboundary climate risks.
Paradoxically, while agriculture appears to be a buffer sector during the COVID-19 crisis in several Sub-Saharan African countries with agricultural production (Amankwah et al., 2021; Zeufack et al., 2021), food insecurity in Africa seems to be increasing (Food and Agriculture Organization et al., 2021).
Women’s bodies must not be held captive to government policies or “alarmist narratives” concerning population growth, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) said in this major new report.
The Government of Punjab on April 18, 2023, issued the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act (Amendment), 2023 to further amend the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961.
There needs to be a major shift in global governance to better tackle such current and looming challenges as the climate crisis and rising security threats, according to this new UN report .
The 11th Annual Integrated Rating and Ranking of Power Distribution Utilities report has been released. As per the report, of the 57 discoms covered in the 11th Integrated Ratings, 46 saw improved scores. Notably, the scores improved by more than 5 per cent for 39 discoms.
The EEA has published the ‘Annual EU greenhouse gas inventory 1990-2021 and inventory report 2023’, which is the EU’s official submission of greenhouse gas emission data to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
