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The UN Environment Programme's Food Waste Index Report 2024 was released recently. Discover some of the key insights below.

"There is massive pollution, in particular in northern Indian cities like Delhi that are very polluted. India is facing climate change and is more vulnerable to climate change than the United States," Mr Solheim said.

A report published in the United Nations Institute of Water, Environment, and Health has placed Pakistan and 22 other countries in the "critically water insecure" category, Dawn reported.

Last year, a report released by UN's World Meteorological Organization showed that last eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record.

The environment ministry on Thursday said a news report on Namibia seeking India's support for lifting a UN ban on trade of ivory as part of the cheetah deal "largely relies on speculation, hearsay and not on facts".

India has diligently worked to achieve the targets it had set at the UN climate conference in 2015 to fight climate change, Union Environment Bhupender Yadav said on Friday.

The UN report, released last week, called for urgent action to avert a "sand crisis," including a ban on beach extraction.

The latest edition of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, which began in Glasgow on October 31, has put the conversation around the global climate change crisis back in the spotlight. We took a look at how AI has been utilised by Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS), a New Delhi-based NGO and major tech firms incl...

India is taking ambitious actions in energy efficiency measures, biofuels, sustainable transport, e-vehicles, enhancing green cover and sustainable agriculture, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav said.

Maharashtra Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray has outlined the roadmap to achieve carbon neutrality for 43 cities under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme from the state that joined UN's "Race to Zero".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the UN climate summit in Glasgow, the environment minister said on Thursday, in a boost for efforts to agree steeper emissions cuts in the fight on global warming.

Developing countries, including India, are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said today while reiterating that the upcoming 26th UN COP26 conference should focus on climate finance.

The global community must invest much more and raise the scale and speed of its pledges to protect nature and prevent species loss, a senior UN official said on Sunday on the eve of a new round of global biodiversity talks.

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday recognised access to a clean and healthy environment as a fundamental right, formally adding its weight to the global fight against climate change and its devastating consequences.

The UN rights chief warned Monday that environmental threats from pollution and climate change were sparking and deepening conflicts worldwide, and will soon constitute the biggest challenge to human rights.

The UN Environment Programme's Food Waste Index Report 2024 was released recently. Discover some of the key insights below.

"There is massive pollution, in particular in northern Indian cities like Delhi that are very polluted. India is facing climate change and is more vulnerable to climate change than the United States," Mr Solheim said.

A report published in the United Nations Institute of Water, Environment, and Health has placed Pakistan and 22 other countries in the "critically water insecure" category, Dawn reported.

Last year, a report released by UN's World Meteorological Organization showed that last eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record.

The environment ministry on Thursday said a news report on Namibia seeking India's support for lifting a UN ban on trade of ivory as part of the cheetah deal "largely relies on speculation, hearsay and not on facts".

India has diligently worked to achieve the targets it had set at the UN climate conference in 2015 to fight climate change, Union Environment Bhupender Yadav said on Friday.

The UN report, released last week, called for urgent action to avert a "sand crisis," including a ban on beach extraction.

The latest edition of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, which began in Glasgow on October 31, has put the conversation around the global climate change crisis back in the spotlight. We took a look at how AI has been utilised by Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS), a New Delhi-based NGO and major tech firms incl...

India is taking ambitious actions in energy efficiency measures, biofuels, sustainable transport, e-vehicles, enhancing green cover and sustainable agriculture, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav said.

Maharashtra Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray has outlined the roadmap to achieve carbon neutrality for 43 cities under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme from the state that joined UN's "Race to Zero".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the UN climate summit in Glasgow, the environment minister said on Thursday, in a boost for efforts to agree steeper emissions cuts in the fight on global warming.

Developing countries, including India, are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said today while reiterating that the upcoming 26th UN COP26 conference should focus on climate finance.

The global community must invest much more and raise the scale and speed of its pledges to protect nature and prevent species loss, a senior UN official said on Sunday on the eve of a new round of global biodiversity talks.

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday recognised access to a clean and healthy environment as a fundamental right, formally adding its weight to the global fight against climate change and its devastating consequences.

The UN rights chief warned Monday that environmental threats from pollution and climate change were sparking and deepening conflicts worldwide, and will soon constitute the biggest challenge to human rights.