UNITED NATIONS
Poor environmental conditions would increase human health risks, warns a study jointly conducted by the World Resource Institute (WRI), the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Bank. The WRI 1998-99 report, titled 'Environmental Change and Human Health', says that despite vast improvements in human health and longer life spans, premature deaths due to environmental causes are occurring in high numbers in developing countries. An estimated one in five children in the developing world will not survive for more than five years primarily because of environment related diseases and ailments.
The governing council has directed the United Nations Environment Programme to cut its administrative costs and divert the savings accruing from it and other available funds to environment programmes in developing countries. The council also called upon to build linkages with regional offices for finalising the core programmes to be more responsive to the needs of the people in the region. An India delegation that met the Commission on Sustainable Development, drew attention to declining resources for development and stressed the need to honour commitments relating to transfer of technology and provision of enough financial resources to developing countries without delay.
Related Content
- Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding construction of a housing project without environment clearance, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 23/04/2024
- Status report of Punjab Pollution Control Board regarding pollution of Buddha nallah, Ludhiana, Punjab, 22/04/2024
- State of world population 2024: interwoven lives, threads of hope- ending inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights
- Report filed by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) regarding violation of Noise Pollution Rules, 2000 by some of the restaurants, bars in Hauz Khas village, Delhi, 16/04/2024
- Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
- Financing for sustainable development report 2024