World Bank staff calls for ‘open’ system of presidential selection

The move comes even as the global body called for nominations to select a new president after Jim Yong Kim resigned recently

New IPCC report will strengthen science on links between biodiversity loss, climate change: UNEP

The report, which is in the final stages of production, will be released February 28

Bad business all round

Neither the market regulator nor the Supreme Court has been able to bring crooked businessmen to book

‘Commercial interest cannot drive lake conservation in Bengaluru’

High Court panel frowns on handing over of city lakes to private companies

Tata retaliates

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India’s poverty reduction slowing down since a decade

The world finally has an assessment of India’s poverty level in absence of an official one for the last 10 years. It increases global …

Climate conference: developed countries push for closing talks under Long-Term Cooperative Action

They make no promise on extending financial and technology support to developing countries

Extinguished!

Conventional politics breaks up the fiery spirit of an ideal self-sustaining forest community

Chhattisgarh mining protests continue on Day 5

Since June 7, tribals in Bastar’s Bailadila have been protesting the NMDC’s allotment of mines on the Nandraj hill to the Adani Group

Simply Put: Duplicitous energy politics

Global warming: 400 million tonnes CO2 pumped to atmosphere a year from this source the world is blind to

Gas flared at oil and gas facilities is greater than EU’s total import from Russia and a key source of methane emission

Climate change: What G7 leaders could have said but didn’t

One of the greatest unmentionables at climate summit after climate summit is just how badly we keep track of contributions to global warming.

Collective response: Group farming helps small, landless farmers amid COVID-19 pandemic

Putting a new twist to an idea can provide a much-needed cushion to India’s bottom-of-the-pyramid farmers in trying times

Centre signs US $200 million loan deal with World Bank for POSHAN Abhiyaan

Amount to be used as financial aid to reduce stunting among children

The paradox of nature and balanced accounts

Western institutions and the United Nations are keen protagonists of natural resource accounting but it may still not be a useful policy tool for …

Tackling antimicrobial resistance: Now G7 health ministers take it up

Report highlights key healthcare challenges, G7 commitments to address them   

International Women’s Day: Why 2021 shines bright for gender parity at parliaments in Sub-Saharan Africa

In the 48 countries around the world that held parliamentary elections in 2021, women candidates won 28.6% of the new seats

Adani has set a dangerous precedent in requesting scientists’ names

profound concerns raised by climate change and fossil fuel emissions are shared by many scientists around the world. This shared concern does not …

Genocide uncovered

Deeply embedded in the battle for land and pastoral hegemony, the first genocide of the 20th century—Namibia's Herero and Nama tribes by …

World bodies release new principles on cost-effective carbon pricing schemes

New World Bank Report states that carbon-pricing schemes are worth US $50 billion

COVID-19 damaged cognitive development, lifetime earnings of an entire generation, finds Word Bank

Report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the young, children finds jeopardy to well-being of generations and growth of economies

Debt crisis and gap in affordable climate finance in focus at IMF, World Bank meeting

Spring Meetings 2023 took place from April 10-16, 2023 in Washington DC

Simply Put: G20 summit in pollution capital

Air pollution sets back global economy by $225 billion

An estimated 5.5 million people died due to air pollution-related diseases in 2013

World Bank to lend $1 billion to India’s solar programme

This is the Bank’s largest ever support for solar power in any country