Growth in Asia and the Pacific outperformed expectations in late 2023, reaching 5.0 percent for the year. Inflation has continued to decline, albeit at varying speeds: some economies are still seeing sustained
Insurance is an under-used way for the tourism industry to manage the risks of climate change, with existing offers ranging from a "perfect weather guarantee" by Barbados to ski resorts promising deep snow, experts say.
Helping developing nations to adapt to climate change such as floods or heatwaves can give bigger economic benefits than a focus on deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, a study indicated on Friday.
The Food and Agriculture Organi-sation (FAO) of the United Nations has put Bangladesh on a list of 31 countries that are in substantial need of food assistance in 2009. Most of the food-insecure least developed countries (LDCs) are in Africa, while five are in Asia, and one is Caribbean.
The Maldives on Wednesday said a budget crisis will keep its president from attending landmark U.N. climate talks, the results of which could have a huge effect on the future of the low-lying archipelago.
New Delhi: Though the government is still chary of pronouncing a full-scale crisis over the errant monsoon and depleted sowing, prospects of more parts of the country being declared drought affected are increasing with the Met department on Monday downgrading its rainfall forecast from 93% of long-term average to 87%.
A government plan for greenhouse gas reduction by 2020 would push down Japan's economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and raise unemployment by 0.2 percentage points in 2020, a government panel report showed on Wednesday.
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Government is actively contemplating to strengthen the Integreted Paste Management (IPM) program aiming to impose control on the indiscriminate use of pesticides and chemicals at different stages of food chain, Food and Disaster management Minister, Dr Md Abdur Razzak said on Sunday.
BJP State President and Member of Parliament Narendra Singh Tomar expressed concern over the depleting investment in agriculture and said that contribution of agriculture in national gross domestic product (GDP) was 17 per cent. Plan expenses on agriculture has come done to two to three per cent. In the year 1950 contribution of agriculture was 55 per cent which had come down to 17 per cent.
Samsung Electronics said on Monday that it would invest 5.4 trillion won ($4.30 billion) in green R&D and facilities to make the world's largest memory chipmaker a leading eco-friendly company by 2013.
