What to know about uncontacted Indigenous peoples and efforts to protect them (Image credits: AP) BOGOTA: From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers, a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective …
Emissions (Pic Credit: AP) “The stakes could not be higher,” a senior UN official told reporters ahead of the UN Climate Summit in New York. Heavy flooding, drought and ever longer heatwaves are just some of the extreme weather events that have battered communities over the past summer alone. Climate …
LAHORE: Pakistan has underscored the critical importance of accelerating progress towards sustainable energy goals at a meeting of a United Nations-based panel on the subject. In his closing remarks at the meeting of ‘Group of Friends for Sustainable Energy,’ Ambassador Munir Akram also said that concessional climate financing was critical …
Prior to adopting the new resolution, entitled: ‘Measures to Combat Islamophobia’, by a vote of 113 in favour to none against, with 44 abstentions, the 193-member Assembly rejected two amendments proposed by a group of European nations. India, along with most of European states, abstained on the resolution. The proposals …
The chief of the UN nuclear watchdog during his visit to Japan has stressed the importance of “full transparency” in the discharge of radioactive wastewater from the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. Speaking to the state-run NHK on Tuesday, Rafael Mariano Grossi noted that the …