World Soil Day 2022: World Soil Day (WSD) is observed every year on December 5, to highlight the value of healthy soil and to promote the sustainable management of soil resources UN designated December 5 2014, as the first official soil day It is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems. It […]
Category: Important Reports
Social Hostilities Index
Social Hostilities Index: India tops the index on social hostilities relating to religion. The report was released by the Washington-based think tank Pew Research Centre The SHI measures acts of religious hostility by private individuals, organizations or groups. The index comprises 13 metrics, including religion-related armed conflict or terrorism and mob or sectarian violence. At […]
Report On Forced Displacement: UNDP
Report On Forced Displacement: UNDP According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report “Turning the tide on internal displacement: A development approach to solutions”, for the first time ever, more than 100 million people were forcibly displaced in 2022, most of them within their own countries. Findings of the Report: At the end of […]
Global Report On Health Equity For Disables
Global Report On Health Equity For Disables: Ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3rd December), the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report titled- Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities. Findings of the Report: Currently, some 1.3 billion people, or one in six, worldwide suffer from major disabilities. […]
Food And Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Report
Food And Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Report: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) new report, The Future of Food and Agriculture — Drivers and triggers for transformation, the world will witness persistent food insecurity if agrifood systems remain the same. This report aims at inspiring strategic thinking and actions to transform agrifood systems towards […]
New Energy Outlook Report 2022
New Energy Outlook Report 2022: According to the 2022 New Energy Outlook report (by BloombergNEF), it is still possible to keep the temperature increase to 1.77 degrees Celsius with determined action. Limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius will not be easy to achieve. Hence, the report analysed Net Zero scenarios or routes that, […]
Second Edition Of The State Of Finance For Nature Report
Second Edition Of The State Of Finance For Nature Report: The second edition of the State of Finance for Nature report was released. The report was released jointly by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) along with the Economics of Land Degradation initiative of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany, the […]
Bulletin On Maternal Mortality Ratio
Bulletin On Maternal Mortality Ratio: The Registrar General of India released a special bulletin on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR). It revealed that India achieved a significant milestone by reaching the National health policy (NHP) target for MMR. The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is the number of maternal deaths during a specific time period per 100,000 […]
Global Water Resources Report 2021: WMO
Global Water Resources Report 2021: WMO WMO (World Meteorological Organization) has released its first annual State of Global Water Resources Report 2021. The aim of this annual report is to support monitoring and management of global freshwater resources in an era of growing demand and limited supplies. The report focuses on three major areas: Streamflow, […]
Tribal Development Report 2022
Tribal Development Report 2022: India’s tribal communities form 8.6 percent of the country’s population according to the 2011 Census. The Tribal Development Report 2022, launched by the Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation (BRLF) in two volumes, claims to be the first of its kind since 1947. The report stated that indigenous communities of India have been […]
