Environment

India is home to more than a billion people and this is expected rise to 1.6 billion by 2050. More than 70% Indians live...

Effective governance and improved fiscal management are essential to sustaining robust economic growth and improving its quality, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) played a major role in channelising global attention towards fundamental development issues. As the MDGs transitioned into Sustainable Development...

Sweden is keen to collaborate with Maharashtra on waste management, smart cities, and renewable energy. "I exchanged views with both the governments at the centre...

Indian agriculture can overcome problems of climate change and take the path of sustainable and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) by using mitigation techniques and adapting...

India recently signed a $175 million loan pact with the World Bank for National Hydrology Project that aims to improve management of water resources.  The...

“When an old person dies, a whole library burns.” The age-old African proverb is apt to explain the significance of ancestral wisdom. Since time immemorial,...

What is the likelihood of seeing a company board or hoarding in the middle of a lush forest? And even if there was one,...

India is on the way to become very highly urbanised with 60% of its population expected to live in cities by 2050. But urbanisation...

Asia-Pacific countries have adopted a road map for regional cooperation on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD 2017) that concluded in Bangkok recently. The road map lays out priority...

The government argued for a plan for sustainable development, balancing the need to protect the environment and continued growth at the third World Conference...

The figures are stark. Nearly 1.8 billion people – or about 25 % of the world’s population, do not have access to safe drinking water and an...