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• Global energy review 2021: Assessing the effects of economic recoveries on global energy demand and CO2 emissions in 2021

  <p>Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are estimated to increase by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021 - the biggest annual rise in emissions since 2010, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). This increase to be driven by a strong rebound in demand for coal in electricity generation will reverse the gains will reverse most decline in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic</p>

  • 20/04/2021

  • International Energy Agency (IEA)
  • • Energy
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Renewable Energy
    • Electricity
    • GDP
    • India
    • Global
    • Africa

• Third Gambia economic update: accelerating financial inclusion to unleash the Gambia’s growth potential

  The Gambia’s economy continued to recover in 2022, albeit at a subdued pace in a sluggish global economic environment. Real GDP increased by 4.3 percent (1.8 percent in per capita terms) in 2022, unchanged

  • 20/07/2023

  • The World Bank
  • • Economy
    • Economic Development
    • Finance
    • GDP
    • Gambia
    • Africa

• Financing the SDGs to build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia and the Pacific

  The 2021 issue of ESCAP’s Financing for Development Series, Financing the SDGs to build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia and the Pacific, reviews a range of financing instruments, strategies

  • 12/10/2021

  • UNESCAP
  • • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    • Finance
    • Coronavirus
    • Asia
    • India

• Order of the High Court of Jharkhand regarding lack of medicines and machines to tackle COVID-19 in Jharkhand, 17/04/2021

  <p>Order of the High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs State of Jharkhand &amp; Others dated 17/04/2021.</p> <p>The matter related to non-availability of CT-Scan

  • 17/04/2021

  • • Coronavirus
    • Jharkhand
    • Drugs
    • Health Care
    • High Court
    • Health Policy

• Cloud forest assets: financing a valuable nature-based solution

  This report finds that of the 979 hydropower dams currently operating in the 25 cloud forest countries, more than half depend on water from cloud forests, representing billions of dollars of electricity

  • 13/12/2022

  • Earth Security
  • • Forests
    • Deforestation
    • Ecosystem Services
    • Hydroelectricity
    • Climate Change
    • Global
    • Carbon Sequestration

• WFP Global Update on COVID-19: November 2020- growing needs, response to date and what’s to come in 2021

  WFP estimates that 271.8 million people in countries where it operates are acutely food insecure - or directly at-risk of becoming so - due to the aggravating effect the protracted COVID-19 crisis is having

  • 20/11/2020

  • World Food Programme
  • • Food Security
    • Coronavirus
    • Health
    • India
    • Africa
    • Global

• Socio-economic impact assessment of Covid-19 in Mauritius

  This report was developed with the technical leadership and financial support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), as part of the advocacy efforts of the wider United Nations System led

  • 02/03/2021

  • UNDP
  • • Coronavirus
    • Health Effects
    • Economy
    • Unemployment
    • Mauritius

• Governing the SDGs in the COVID-era: Bringing back hierarchic styles of governance?

  Adopted in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were intended to motivate governments and the international community to address the world’s

  • 01/03/2021

  • Asian Development Bank Institute
  • • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    • Coronavirus
    • Governance
    • Denmark
    • Japan
    • Vietnam

• World report on the health of refugees and migrants

  <p>Around the world, millions of refugees and migrants in vulnerable situations, such as low-skilled migrant workers, face poorer health outcomes than their host communities, especially where living and working conditions are sub-standard, according to this report by the WHO.</p>

  • 20/07/2022

  • WHO
  • • Health
    • Refugees
    • Migration
    • Displacement
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • Mental Health
    • Child Health
    • India
    • Global
    • Africa

• Breathable Indoors

  That buildings should be well-ventilated is no rocket science.However, the current pandemic and revelation that SARS-CoV-2 can remain airborne for a considerable length of time has given this ancient awareness

  • 30/09/2021

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Buildings
    • Housing
    • Coronavirus
    • India
    • CSE

• The Least Developed Countries Report 2021: the least developed countries in the post-COVID world- learning from 50 years of experience

  The world’s poorest countries will remain on the margins of the global economy if States are unable to boost economic production, and the international community fails to provide more support, the UN Conference

  • 27/09/2021

  • UNCTAD
  • • Economic Development
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    • GDP
    • Coronavirus
    • Global

• Global multidimensional poverty index 2023: unstacking global poverty- data for high-impact action

  <p>Around 415 million people exited poverty within a span of just 15 years between 2005 to 2021 in India, according to this latest Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2023 report by the UNDP and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).</p>

  • 11/07/2023

  • UNDP
  • • Poverty
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    • Health
    • Education
    • India
    • Global
    • Africa

• The Global Girlhood Report 2020: How COVID-19 is putting progress in peril

  2020 was supposed to be a once-in-a-generation opportunity for women and girls. The year when governments, businesses, organisations, and individuals came together to develop a five-year plan to accelerate

  • 01/10/2020

  • Save the Children
  • • Children
    • Women
    • Health
    • Coronavirus
    • India
    • Global

• Adapting disaster risk management systems for health-related emergencies: early lessons from the Asia-Pacific region

  On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus (COVID). Countries around the world moved swiftly to declare states of emergency, closing ports

  • 01/10/2020

  • The World Bank
  • • Disaster Management
    • Health Effects
    • Coronavirus
    • Asia
    • India
    • Disaster Preparedness

• Global Girlhood 2020: COVID-19 and progress in peril

  <p>An estimated 500,000 more girls risk being forced into child marriage and as many as one million more are expected to become pregnant in 2020 as a result of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,

  • 30/09/2020

  • Save the Children
  • • Global
    • Women
    • Coronavirus
    • Asia
    • Africa
    • Children

• Report on mitigation and management of COVID 19

  This compendium details information about various practices and initiatives implemented by States, Districts and Cities in India for containing and managing the COVID-19 outbreak. It is important to note

  • 01/11/2020

  • NITI Aayog
  • • Coronavirus
    • Health
    • Health Care
    • India

• Addressing the associated risks of COVID-19 infections from water and wastewater services in Asia through a decentralised wastewater treatment approach

  This Issue Brief aims to: (i) facilitate discussion on the need to properly address the existing issue of poor wastewater management in many Asian countries, in order to minimise the human health risks

  • 01/11/2020

  • Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
  • • Wastewater
    • Wastewater Treatment
    • Coronavirus
    • Health Effects
    • India
    • Asia

• Energy efficiency 2022

  Energy Efficiency 2022 is the IEA’s primary annual analysis on global developments in energy efficiency markets and policy. It explores recent trends in energy intensity, demand and efficiency-related

  • 01/12/2022

  • International Energy Agency (IEA)
  • • Energy Efficiency
    • Energy Intensity
    • India
    • Global

• South Africa’s roadmap of action toward sustainable mobility

  In 2020, the Sustainable Mobility for All partnership applied its innovative approach for improved public decision making in transport to South Africa, using the set of tools it had developed—Catalogue

  • 01/12/2022

  • Sustainable Mobility for All
  • • Mobility Planning
    • Public Transport
    • South Africa
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Global Innovation Index2021: tracking innovation through the COVID-19 crisis

  Despite the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, the new technology sector continued to thrive and prosper last year, the UN’s intellectual property agency said in a new report. According to the findings

  • 20/09/2021

  • World Intellectual Property Organization
  • • Innovation
    • Economy
    • Science And Technology
    • Coronavirus
    • India
    • Global