India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the world has much to learn from Bhutan, when it comes to achieving progress through sustainable development.
Annual climate finance of $100B a must: BASIC meet
BASIC ministers, meeting on climate change in São Paulo, Brazil, have urged developed countries to fulfill their climate finance commitments of mobilizing USD 100 billion annually by 2020 for developing countries.
Earth’s highest ever temp recorded in July 2019
According to report by Statista based on the NASA data, the average global temperature over the past month was 2.34°C above the average temperature calculated for the years from 1980 to 2015.
MoHUA workshop on sustainable sanitation
The day-long interaction among stakeholders is expected to culminate into a comprehensive roadmap for ensuring sustainable sanitation in urban areas.
BRICS resolves to fix urban environmental issues
India already has J78GW of renewable energy in place while forest cover has increased by nearly 15,000 sq. km and tree cover outside the forest is increasing rapidly, Javadekar said.
Campaign to rid India of one-time-use plastics
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar is in Sao Paulo, Brazil to attend the ministerial meetings of BRICS and BASIC countries.
India’s largest rural sanitation survey launched
The survey, being conducted by Ipsos, will cover 17,450 villages in 698 districts across India while around 2,50,000 citizens will be interviewed for their feedback.
CSR spend recommended as tax deductible
Other recommendations include developing a CSR exchange portal, allowing CSR in social benefit bonds, promoting social impact companies, and third-party assessment of major CSR projects.
41% reduction in crop stubble burning realized
More than 4,500 villages in Punjab and Haryana were declared as Zero Stubble Burning Villages during 2018 as not a single crop burning incident was reported from these villages during the year.
Tracking Swachh Bharat: 5th survey launched
Swachh Survekshan 2020, for which field surveys would be conducted in January 2020, will measure the gains made so far and also provide a roadmap to institutionalize the concept of Swachhata across cities.