SDGs

Five years after the first Global Sustainable Transport Conference was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, the critical role of transport in growth, sustainable development and securing the health of our planet has only become clearer. When…
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On 1 October 2020, four countries—Eswatini, India, Kenya and South Africa—approached the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council to seek a waiver from certain obligations on the protection and enforcement of patents, trade secrets,…
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The NITI Aayog’s recently released SDG India Index has highlighted India’s poor performance in the realm of gender equality. Even with an upgrade in the all-over implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the country did not show…
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The Berlin Declaration adopted at the end of the 8th triennial conference of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) held virtually between May 31-June 3, 2021, calls for “sustainable management of reactive nitrogen compounds across all…
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Humanity’s failure to stop nitrogen pollution could limit the safe operating margin for many other issues facing our planet earth, say scientists. This latest finding was reported by Professor Johan Rockstrom, former director of the…
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For the first time, the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the main focus of the 8th triennial conference of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI). Postponed from May last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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As the global COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to stall progress for the world’s rural populations, the newly released the World Social Report  2021 “Reconsidering Rural Development” has stressed the need for moving rural development to the…
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The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is at the centre of global development policy, and parliamentarians are now taking a lead in ensuring that national policy frameworks, and parliamentary oversight, are guided by the Sustainable…
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International organisations are now attempting to catalyze parliamentary action to fight the climate crisis by looking at legislatures with an environmental lens. In the last decade, especially after the signing of The Paris Agreement on…
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In 1903, Thomas Edison said, “The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of diseases.” A century later, Edison’s words cannot be truer.…
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