Report On Weather Disasters: WMO: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), has released a report, which stated that weather disasters killed 2 million in the last 50 years. WMO has published ‘Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes, from 1970 to 2019’. WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations. […]
Category: Important Reports
ILO Report on Social Protection During The COVID-19 Crisis
International Labour Organization (ILO) Report: Despite the unprecedented worldwide expansion of social protection during the COVID-19 crisis, more than 4 billion people around the world remain entirely unprotected, a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report says. Social protection includes access to health care and income security, particularly in relation to old age, unemployment, sickness, disability, […]
World Social Protection Report 2021: ILO
World Social Protection Report: ILO International Labour Organization report titled ‘World Social Protection Report 2020–22’ has revealed that, globally 4.1 billion people are living without any social safety net of any kind. The report highlighted that the pandemic response was uneven and insufficient. Thereby, Covid-19 has further underscored the critical importance of achieving universal social […]
Confederation Of Indian Industry (CII): Survey
Confederation Of Indian Industry (CII): Survey: A recent poll survey result conducted by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) involving the CEO of companies Observations made through this survey: Growth expected by the government and RBI: The central bank has recently downgraded its GDP growth projection for the year to 9.5% from 10.5% earlier, while the […]
North Eastern Region District SDG Index And Dashboard 2021–22
North Eastern Region District SDG Index And Dashboard 2021–22: NITI Aayog Releases North Eastern Region District SDG Index and Dashboard 2021–22. The NER District SDG Index& Dashboard, a collaborative effort by NITI Aayog and Ministry of DoNER, with technical support from UNDP. The Index measures the performance of the districts of the eight States of […]
Children’s Climate Risk Index 2021: UNICEF
Children’s Climate Risk Index: UNICEF: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with Fridays for Future launched a report named ‘The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index’. It is the first comprehensive analysis of climate risk from a child’s perspective. Earlier an analysis, based on Notre Dame […]
Key Indicators For Asia And The Pacific 2021 – Asian Development Bank
Key Indicators For Asia And The Pacific 2021: Asian Development Bank (ADB) released a report titled as the Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021. The report demonstrated that the region made substantial progress in the last two decades with respect to several development targets. It presents comprehensive economic, financial, social and environmental statistics […]
Global Manufacturing Risk Index 2021
Global Manufacturing Risk Index: India has overtaken the United States (US) to become the second-most sought-after manufacturing destination globally, driven mainly by cost competitiveness in the Global Manufacturing Risk Index 2021. China remains at number one position In last year’s report, the US was at second position while India ranked third. About the Global Manufacturing […]
[Impacts of Climate Change] Latin America And The Caribbean 2020: WMO
State Of The Climate On Latin America And The Caribbean 2020: WMO: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released a report on the impacts of climate change and extreme weather in Latin America and the Caribbean. 2020 was a year of unprecedented heatwaves, droughts, forest fires, cyclones and food insecurity for the region. The […]
India’s Water Crisis & Women
India’s Water Crisis & Women: India is water-stressed due to changing weather patterns and repeated droughts. And the worst sufferers of this crisis are mostly women. Water scarcity in India is expected to worsen as the overall population is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2050. Although India has 16% of the […]
