Prioritise, don't tick all boxesCountries aim to achieve UN SDGs but struggle due to lack of focus. Malawi prioritizes tablets for learning, India uses class shuffling, an...
24 Mar, 2024, 11.27 PM IST
View: Fighting with hunger, malnutrition is need of the hourJapan had 6-in-10 children undernourished in 1900. It reached very low levels by 2000. China achieved massive drops in malnutrition in the ...
24 May, 2023, 11.51 PM IST
View: The climate fight will be more effective if data is presented without sensationalism'Heat-related deaths in India are up 55% because of climate change' was a headline reported by various media outlets last week. While this ...
03 Nov, 2022, 11.36 PM IST
View: Burgeoning Indian cities need infrastructure development to keep pace with growthSwift growth places huge pressure on infrastructure. A report says Indian cities get water supply from 1-6 hours and that only 21% of its w...
16 Jun, 2018, 06.33 AM IST
COP21: Time to take 'climate' out of 'climate aid'OECD has analysed 70% of total global development aid and found that about one in four of those dollars now goes to climate-related aid.
03 Dec, 2015, 04.08 AM IST
Pick solutions that offer highest social and environmental returns: Bjorn Lomborg"The truth is we're not going to be able to do this. If we're not going to fix everything, first look at where can we do the most good."
16 Aug, 2015, 10.45 AM IST
Improve infrastructure to cut food wastageIn South-east Asia, over 18% food is wasted. If we could halve the South and South=east Asian waste, we could feed an extra 234 million peo...
10 Apr, 2015, 05.13 AM IST
Free trade, freer migration could help tackle povertyExtreme poverty – by current reckoning, living on less than $1.25 a day – is a continuing problem for far too many people today.
06 Feb, 2015, 06.08 AM IST
Reliable and affordable energy : Make clean stoves, electricity part of the new promisesWorldwide, almost 3 bn people still don’t have access to modern energy, instead they use firewood, dung and crop waste for cooking and heat...
02 Jan, 2015, 05.38 AM IST
Feeding people is smart: It's the best investment to do good in the worldAs it turns out, tackling nutrition is the most cost-effective solution around, because it has massive benefits for a tiny price tag.
16 Oct, 2014, 01.19 PM IST
People say better education and healthcare are top priorities not global warmingIf you’re Samson Banda from Zaire, having been sick from malaria for six months and faced with appalling healthcare, your priority is healt...
24 Sep, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Cutting CO2 significantly may require quite a bit of creative accounting for DenmarkThe first challenge Copenhagen faces in reaching its zero emissions goal is the lack of cost-effective alternatives for some sources of CO2...
29 Jul, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- Climate change: With higher incomes, people will care more for environment
Freer trade will allow more people to escape poverty and secure sufficient food and clean water.
21 Dec, 2012, 05.03 AM IST
- Rio+20: Country's economy relies on environment, its national accounts don't reflect this
Rio+20 is not about climate change alone; it is a revisiting of the 1992 first Earth Summit to reassess priorities and formulate action to ...
21 Jun, 2012, 06.00 AM IST
- Global landmarks go dark for Earth Hour campaign
Major landmarks plunged into darkness on Saturday as a symbolic energy-saving exercise unfolded across the globe, calling for action on cli...
28 Mar, 2009, 10.59 PM IST
- Climate change posers
One of the stranger spectacles of climate change debate was the sight of NASA climate scientist marching with actress Darryl Hannah in Wash...
16 Mar, 2009, 01.08 AM IST
- Economists ponder over global challenges
The Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) is receiving research reports which will help it rank grave world problems.
26 May, 2008, 02.29 AM IST