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Cities, no doubt, are aspirational and most people want to move into them for upgrading their stands of living. However, a lot of these immigrants will be coming due to distressed conditions and hence neither they nor the city authorities will be prepared to handle them. In recent times, many urban

Biodiversity , Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Health , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/28/2022

Micro-plastics in the fish I eat

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) found out that pollutants like micro-plastics may be causing growth defects in fish, including skeletal deformities The other day, as I stepped out of my car to buy fish from a fisher folk on the bank of river Mahanadi, a waste carrier vehicle

Biodiversity , Business , Data & Reports , Economy , Environment , Food , Health , Resources , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 02/25/2022

A global plastic treaty on cards?

Plastic pollution is one of the key concerns for the entire globe at the moment. Something that started as a symbol of progress a few decades ago is out in the open as a killer that the humans find very difficult to control. It’s a menace from top to toe, from the production stage to the [&hell

Cities , Climate , Data & Reports , Energy , Governance , Human Rights , Migration , Opinions , Refugees , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Transport / 11/03/2021

Cities need net-zero commitments as climate induced internally displaced people keeps increasing

Women and girls make up over half of the world’s IDPs, 5 million IDPs are living with disabilities, an estimated 2.6 million are elderly, and over 30.5 million are children and youth. As world governments sharpen their negotiation skills to bargain for better deals for their respective countries a

Biodiversity , Cities , Climate , Energy , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Opinions , Resources , SDGs , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/28/2021

How to meet climate and SDG goals together for cities

Each city should have two plans ready within a year. One, a SDG plan and two, a climate action plan Cities are growing by leaps and bounds. Currently, almost 55 percent of the global population lives in cities. This figure is estimated to grow to 68 percent by 2050. In this decade, which is also

Data & Reports , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/08/2021

Sex for water: Humanity’s new low in Libyan refugee centres

This July, as the world was preparing to celebrate eleven years of ‘Human Right to Water’- recognized by the UN – an investigation into detention camps in Libya made some shocking revelations that would shame the civilized world. Refugees and migrants are being forced to trade sex fo

Biodiversity , Cities , Climate , COVID-19 , Education , Environment , Forests , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/23/2021

Reversing ecosystem degradation: working with city youths

Education curriculum for youth should be designed in ways that their grades are linked to conservation actions. Oxygen, an otherwise conveniently forgotten thing, has been the most talked about crisis in India in recent months. However, much of the attention stayed put on the oxygen cylinders and

Cities , Climate , Disasters , Governance , Human Rights , Migration , Refugees , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 03/17/2021

Cities need to plan for accommodating people displaced by climate change

In the next three decades, it is expected, humanity would have turned an exclusively urban species. By then almost 80 to 90 percent of people would be living in urban areas. At the moment, cities in the Global South are growing much faster than they did in industrialized countries 100 or more ye

Biodiversity , Climate , Environment , Forests , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 10/02/2020

Wetlands in our climate actions: Recommendations for Country Plans

There is a growing voice that governments take into note the importance of wetlands in achieving both the mitigation and adaptation targets to meet the Paris Climate goals Nations are in the process of submitting their updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Climate Agreem

COVID-19 , Environment , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Opinions , Refugees , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 07/27/2020

Ensuring right to water during pandemics and beyond

It is the 10th anniversary of the recognition of human rights to water and sanitation and our approaches to ensuring water and sanitation during this pandemic should therefore be based on a rights regime and people should be provided with water that is safe. It should be supplied by adhering to the

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