In unity, not battles, lies humanity's future: PM ModiPM Narendra Modi advocated for the rights of the Global South at the UN's Summit of the Future, stressing the importance of a human-centric...
23 Sep, 2024, 11.49 PM IST
"India has established itself as voice of Global South": Maldives minister Ahmed Khaleel at UNTerming the India-UN Development Partner Fund as the blueprint of South-South cooperation the Maldives leader affirmed the high hopes for I...
25 Sep, 2023, 02.48 PM IST
UN Secretary General "strong advocate" for UNSC permanent seat for IndiaUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed support for India's inclusion in the permanent seat of the UN Security Council. Guterre...
07 Sep, 2023, 03.38 PM IST
UK's Boris Johnson warns world leaders as climate summit beginsJohnson likened the Earth's position to that of fictional secret agent James Bond — strapped to a bomb that will destroy the planet and try...
01 Nov, 2021, 06.37 PM IST
- World leaders meet in Paris to save Earth
A key UN climate change summit that will be attended by nearly 150 world leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicks off tomorrow ...
30 Nov, 2015, 02.28 AM IST
UN adopts ambitious post-2015 Sustainable Development GoalsThe General Assembly adopted the new framework, "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", composed of 17 goals...
25 Sep, 2015, 10.44 PM IST
Green groups worried as Rio+20 pact is dilutedThe draft deal put forward by the summit hosts "is a more streamlined text, more likely to be agreed, less likely to deliver sustainable de...
19 Jun, 2012, 02.58 PM IST
- Carnival city gets ready for Rio+20
“What do you feel about the UN Earth Summit returning to Rio after 20 years,” I ask of a 20-something Brazilian seated next to me on the fl...
15 Jun, 2012, 03.29 AM IST
Rio+20: UN environment summit opens, but prospects grimRousseff, president of host nation Brazil, called on "all countries of the world to commit" to reaching an accord that addresses the most p...
14 Jun, 2012, 05.45 AM IST
Slow progress since Earth Summit 20 years agoTwenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio pledged to save the environment, observers and policy makers agree swifter action is required to...
12 Jun, 2012, 11.33 PM IST
Rio Summit: Consumption driving 'unprecedented' environment damage, says UNPopulation growth and unsustainable consumption are driving Earth towards "unprecedented" environmental destruction, the UN said in a repor...
08 Jun, 2012, 03.43 PM IST
Earth Summit: UN leader Ban Ki-moon seeks to head off Rio summit tragedyThe summit will touch on just about every social and environmental problem facing the world ranging from food security, global health, liva...
08 Jun, 2012, 03.37 PM IST
Earth Summit: China stresses economic needs ahead of UN environment summitThe comments added to signs that the June 20-22 meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, might face political obstacles to any significant agreem...
08 Jun, 2012, 03.16 PM IST
Rio+20 summit to get maximum security: State officialThe Rio+20 gathering, the fourth major summit on sustainable development since 1972, is to be attended by 115 global leaders and 50,000 par...
08 Jun, 2012, 02.58 PM IST
Earth Summit: Critics say biggest UN summit heading toward failureThe likely absence of top-tier leaders suggests that many governments have already written the conference off.
08 Jun, 2012, 02.26 PM IST
- Losing wild species at rapid pace, warns UN
The world is failing to stop the alarming loss of the Earth's species and habitat, a UN summit was warned on Wednesday amid multinational b...
24 Sep, 2010, 04.48 AM IST
- Bolivia to Create Mother Earth Ministry
Bolivia will create the Mother Earth Ministry, in accordance with Cochabamba's Declaration, which was adopted by the World People's Confere...
26 Apr, 2010, 07.18 PM IST