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AU, UN to extend $200 mn to Africa to boost response to climate change The African Union, the United Nations and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have said that they are providing African states with $200 million to strengthen the capacity of the continent to respond to climate change. Harsen Nyambe, director of the Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy Directorate at the African Union Commission (AUC), said in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that part of the grant will be channeled to African countries to enable them to observe weather changes so that l...
AU, UN to extend $200 mn to Africa to boost response to climate change
AU, UN to extend $200 mn to Africa to boost response to climate change
Source: IANS
9/09/2023 8:58:29 AM
PM Narendra Modi scheduled to attend United Nations General Assembly in September  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend the high-level annual meeting of the UN General Assembly in September, according to the roster of speakers released by the office of the Assembly president. The tentative roster has him speaking on September 22 between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time (12:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. in India on September 23), but it is likely to be changed to a more hospitable time for viewers in India. This will be his second visit to the UN and the US th...
PM Narendra Modi scheduled to attend United Nations General Assembly in September
PM Narendra Modi scheduled to attend United Nations General Assembly in September
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19/07/2023 10:09:02 AM
India donates $1 mn to promote Hindi at United Nations India has donated $1 million to the UN for the promotion of Hindi. Acknowledging India’s contribution Melissa Fleming, the Global Communications under-secretary-general, tweeted on Monday: "We are grateful to @IndiaUNNewYork and @ruchirakamboj for their generous investment in our @UNinHindi service to bring UN news and stories to Hindi speaking audiences in India and beyond." India's Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj, who gave her the cheque last Friday, said i...
India donates $1 mn to promote Hindi at United Nations
India donates $1 mn to promote Hindi at United Nations
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19/07/2023 10:03:42 AM
UN working on facilitation of Russian food and fertiliser exports  The world body continues to push for Russian food and fertiliser exports as a parallel agreement with the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which allows Ukrainian agricultural exports from Black Sea ports, said a UN spokesman. UN Conference on Trade and Development chief Rebeca Grynspan and her team are continuing to "work full steam" ahead to ensure the full implementation of the memorandum of understanding on Russian food and fertiliser exports, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesma...
UN working on facilitation of Russian food and fertiliser exports
UN working on facilitation of Russian food and fertiliser exports
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27/05/2023 10:27:36 AM
India to push back against 'agenda-driven' global ranking firms - Narendra Modi advisor India plans to push back against "agenda-driven", "neo-colonial" country rankings produced by global agencies on topics like governance and press freedom, a key advisor to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of Modi's Economic Advisory Council, said India has begun to raise this issue at global forums. He said the indices were being compiled by a "tiny group of think-tanks in the North Atlantic,&q...
India to push back against 'agenda-driven' global ranking firms - Narendra Modi advisor
India to push back against 'agenda-driven' global ranking firms - Narendra Modi advisor
Source: Reuters
27/05/2023 9:28:53 AM
India`s economy likely to grow by 6.7% in 2024: United Nations United Nations (UN) in its latest report has said that India’s economy is expected to grow by 6.7 per cent in the calendar year 2024, supported by resilient domestic demand. It said inflation in India is expected to decelerate to 5.5 per cent in 2023 as global commodity prices moderate and slower currency depreciation reduces imported inflation. However, it said higher interest rates and weaker external demand will continue to weigh on investment and exports in 2023. The report state...
India`s economy likely to grow by 6.7% in 2024: United Nations
India`s economy likely to grow by 6.7% in 2024: United Nations
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17/05/2023 12:31:20 PM
'With many positives', India's growth to hold at 5.8% keeping top spot: United Nations The UN said on Tuesday that "with many positives", India's economic growth this year is expected to hold at 5.8 per cent, affirming a series of international organisations' projections that the country will be the fastest-growing major economy. The Midyear Update to the UN's World Economic Situation and Prospects report projected next year's gross domestic Product (GDP) to hold at 6.7 per cent "supported by resilient domestic demand". Speaking at the ...
'With many positives', India's growth to hold at 5.8% keeping top spot: United Nations
'With many positives', India's growth to hold at 5.8% keeping top spot: United Nations
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17/05/2023 9:50:09 AM
Reducing regional divide among key priority areas for India under G20 presidency: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that reducing the regional divide is one of the key priority areas for India during its G20 presidency. Modi said this after inaugurating the new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Area office and Innovation Centre in India at a programme in Vigyan Bhawan here. The prime minister also unveiled the Bharat 6G Vision Document and launched the 6G R&D Test Bed. On the occasion, he also launched the 'Call before u Dig' App...
Reducing regional divide among key priority areas for India under G20 presidency: Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Reducing regional divide among key priority areas for India under G20 presidency: Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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22/03/2023 4:42:30 PM
Guterres calls on G20 finance ministers to find 'bold' solutions to debt crisis UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is asking the G20 finance ministers meeting in Bengaluru to take "bold" steps to reform the international development banks and find ways to solve the debt crisis facing several developing countries, according to his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. "The Secretary-General calls on the G20 finance ministers to be bold in their efforts to reform the multilateral development banks and in the effort to find solutions to pressing debt challeng...
Guterres calls on G20 finance ministers to find 'bold' solutions to debt crisis
Guterres calls on G20 finance ministers to find 'bold' solutions to debt crisis
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25/02/2023 11:06:39 AM
OP Jindal Global University announces the launch of JGU-Model United Nations 2023 O.P. Jindal Global University proudly announces the launch of the JGU-Model United Nations 2023 (JGU-MUN). The JGU-MUN seeks to hone the skills of all participating students in the art of understanding and articulating on any global issue or problem by simulating debates being held on these at the UN and its various organs. Under the expert guidance of distinguished professors and former diplomats, students will have the opportunity to live a unique, international experience where they ...
OP Jindal Global University announces the launch of JGU-Model United Nations 2023
OP Jindal Global University announces the launch of JGU-Model United Nations 2023
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24/02/2023 2:44:59 PM
India pays its 2023 dues of $30.54 mn to UN India has paid its 2023 annual contribution of $30.54 million to the UN budget, according to a UN spokesperson. India was among the 43 countries on its "honour roll" so far for having paid their assessments to the budget, Stephane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said on Monday. India's contribution was received on Friday according to the UN. India's share is assessed at 1.044 per cent of the total budget of $3.217 billion. Altho...
India pays its 2023 dues of $30.54 mn to UN
India pays its 2023 dues of $30.54 mn to UN
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14/02/2023 11:53:55 AM
India a `bright spot` in world economy currently ; United nation Hamid Rashid The Chief of the Global Economic Monitoring Branch, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, UN-Department of Economic and Social Affairs Hamid Rashid in the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2023 report has said India is a bright spot in the world economy currently and is on a strong footing, projected to grow at 6.7 per cent next year, a very high growth rate relative to other G20 member countries. He stated this is a sustainable growth rate for India. India also has a significant num...
India a `bright spot` in world economy currently ; United nation Hamid Rashid
India a `bright spot` in world economy currently ; United nation Hamid Rashid
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27/01/2023 10:04:10 AM
Global output growth to fall to 1.9% in 2023 from 3%: UN report  The world output growth is projected to decelerate from an estimated 3 per cent in 2022 to 1.9 per cent in 2023, marking one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades, a United Nation's (UN) report has said. It has listed a series of severe and mutually reinforcing shocks - the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and resulting food and energy crises, surging inflation, debt tightening, as well as the climate emergency behind the expected deceleration in global output growth ...
Global output growth to fall to 1.9% in 2023 from 3%: UN report
Global output growth to fall to 1.9% in 2023 from 3%: UN report
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27/01/2023 9:31:55 AM
General Assembly approves United Nations regular budget for 2023 The General Assembly has approved an annual regular budget for the UN of about $3.396 billion. The 2023 budget is higher than that of 2022, which stood at $3.122 billion, reports Xinhua news agency. The regular budget covers UN activities across a range of areas, including political affairs, international justice and law, regional cooperation for development, human rights and humanitarian affairs, and public information. The world body has a separate peacekeeping budget, which has a ...
General Assembly approves United Nations regular budget for 2023
General Assembly approves United Nations regular budget for 2023
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31/12/2022 2:11:34 PM
Samsung raises over $10 mn for Global Goals Samsung Electronics announced that it has reached a significant milestone to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or the Global Goals, with a contribution of more than $10 million to the UN Development Programme (UNDP). The funding, which came from the Samsung Global Goals application, will help UNDP in promoting resilience and accelerating global growth, the company said in a blogpost on Sunday. The Global Goals, which were established by the UN in 2015, provide a common b...
Samsung raises over $10 mn for Global Goals
Samsung raises over $10 mn for Global Goals
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27/12/2022 2:53:27 PM
From Mars to Metaverse, as UAE aims high, opportunities open up for India The year 2022 ends on a positive note with regard to India-UAE relations, with business and political ties between the two countries scaling new heights. The UAE is India's third largest trading partner and the bilateral trade between them surpasses $88 billion. Indians, moreover, constitute 39.9 per cent of the UAE population and their remittances to India add up to more than $17 billion, the largest for any country overseas. To tell the world what the future will be like, Dubai bu...
From Mars to Metaverse, as UAE aims high, opportunities open up for India
From Mars to Metaverse, as UAE aims high, opportunities open up for India
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25/12/2022 10:36:32 AM
Universal Health Coverage -- the Move Towards #HealthForAll Since 2017, the 12th of December has been designated as Universal Health Coverage Day to serve as a reminder that everyone, regardless of income or social standing, should have access to high-quality healthcare. Working in silos when it comes to health is no longer an option, as the epidemic forced the globe know. Thus, the clarion call for securing UHC serves as a focal point to encourage governments and nations to make wiser investments in health and to remind people around the world of the...
Universal Health Coverage -- the Move Towards #HealthForAll
Universal Health Coverage -- the Move Towards #HealthForAll
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23/12/2022 5:47:50 PM
Exports of other cereals records spike, rise 53.78% in November While uthorities are working in mission mode to increase millet production and consumption, exports data shows that exports of agricultural and food items, especially other cereals, continued to grow at a brisk pace. In November this year, an increase of only 0.62 per cent was registered in the total export of commodities as compared to November last year, but there was a double digit increase in exports of almost all the items of agriculture and food items. A growth of 53.78 percent was r...
Exports of other cereals records spike, rise 53.78% in November
Exports of other cereals records spike, rise 53.78% in November
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23/12/2022 5:21:59 PM
COP15 pact significant breakthrough for biodiversity: GEF CEO The agreement reached on Monday in Montreal is a significant breakthrough for biodiversity conservation. It reflects never-before-seen recognition from countries at all income levels that loss of biodiversity must be stopped through high-ambition changes to society's relationship with nature and the way our global economy operates. This was the reaction of CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, on the conclusion of two-week negotiations of the ...
COP15 pact significant breakthrough for biodiversity: GEF CEO
COP15 pact significant breakthrough for biodiversity: GEF CEO
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20/12/2022 11:56:43 AM
In Mexico, displaced LGBTQ+ people push for equal, safe jobs Fresh out of high school, 18-year-old Sashe left the family home where she felt unsafe, moved to a shelter in Mexico City and started looking for a job that would let her freely express herself as a transgender woman. But her goals of financial independence have been blocked by employers who turn her away for "not looking enough like a woman," said Sashe, who asked that only her first name be published for security reasons. "I constantly saw jobs advertised for women from...
In Mexico, displaced LGBTQ+ people push for equal, safe jobs
In Mexico, displaced LGBTQ+ people push for equal, safe jobs
Source: Reuters
13/12/2022 9:34:52 AM
India to stamp its legacy at G20 Occupying the Presidency of the G20 and UNSC offers India a unique chance to leave its legacy and make the voice of the Global South and developing world heard at these two august fora. By assuming the Presidency of the G20 and UNSC, for one year and one month respectively, for next one-year India gets a unique opportunity for the country to contribute to the global agenda on pressing issues of international importance. G20 is the premier forum for international economic cooperation rep...
India to stamp its legacy at G20
India to stamp its legacy at G20
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11/12/2022 9:34:04 AM
PM Narendra Modi congratulates United Nations for launch of International Year Of Millets 2023 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for the launch of the International Year of Millets 2023. During his message in the opening ceremony of International Year of Millets at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Modi said: "Once-in-a-century pandemic followed by a conflict situation has shown that food security is still a concern for the planet." He added that the "need of the hour is to make millets ...
PM Narendra Modi congratulates United Nations for launch of International Year Of Millets 2023
PM Narendra Modi congratulates United Nations for launch of International Year Of Millets 2023
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7/12/2022 10:45:25 AM
India ready to take place at global top table: Ruchira Kamboj Expressing optimism, India's permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) Ruchira Kamboj has said that India is ready to take its place at the global top table as a country that is willing to bring solutions and contribute positively to the global agenda. She also noted that in the last two years, as the world went through various crises, India has always been there as a solution provider. Referring to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kamboj said that India supplied medicines, medical equ...
India ready to take place at global top table: Ruchira Kamboj
India ready to take place at global top table: Ruchira Kamboj
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2/12/2022 3:50:02 PM
India's ambassador to US Taranjit Singh Sandhu gets one-year extension The tenure of India's Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, has been extended for a year till January 31, 2024. Earlier, he was due to retire in January 2023. A notification published in the Gazette of India on November 28 states, "The President of India is pleased to re-employ Taranjit Singh Sandhu (IFS:1988), an officer of Grade 1 of IFS, as Ambassador of India to the United States of America, for a period of 01 year with effect from 01.02.2023 to 31.01.2024 or until furt...
India's ambassador to US Taranjit Singh Sandhu gets one-year extension
India's ambassador to US Taranjit Singh Sandhu gets one-year extension
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1/12/2022 6:04:21 PM
Hyundai, SK On sign pact for EV battery partnership in US Hyundai Motor Group said on Tuesday it has signed an initial pact with car battery maker SK On to secure batteries for its dedicated electric vehicle (EV) plant in the United States. The two South Korean companies have signed a memorandum of understanding for the supply of batteries and future business opportunities in the U.S. EV market, Hyundai Motor Group said in a statement. Under the "strategic partnership," SK On plans to begin supplying its batteries for EVs to be built...
Hyundai, SK On sign pact for EV battery partnership in US
Hyundai, SK On sign pact for EV battery partnership in US
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29/11/2022 4:19:55 PM
Global shipping growth at risk from economic gloom, UNCTAD says The pace of global shipping activity is set to lose steam next year as economic turmoil, conflict in Ukraine and the impact of the pandemic weaken the outlook for trade, U.N. agency UNCTAD said on Tuesday. The world's largest investment banks expect global economic growth to slow further in 2023 following a year roiled by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and soaring inflation. The slowdown is expected to impact shipping, which transports more than 80% of global trade, although tanke...
Global shipping growth at risk from economic gloom, UNCTAD says
Global shipping growth at risk from economic gloom, UNCTAD says
Source: Reuters
29/11/2022 2:21:12 PM
9.4 mn people in South Sudan expected to require aid next year: United Nation An estimated 9.4 million people -- an increase of 500,000 -- will need assistance and protection in South Sudan next year, UN humanitarians said. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday that endemic violence, conflict, access constraints, operational interference, public health challenges, and climatic shocks such as flooding and localised drought worsen deteriorating humanitarian conditions. The OCHA reported that it appealed to the government f...
9.4 mn people in South Sudan expected to require aid next year: United Nation
9.4 mn people in South Sudan expected to require aid next year: United Nation
Source: IANS
26/11/2022 10:18:54 AM
Solar-power internet downloads opportunities for African refugees When Innocent Tshilombo arrived in Kenya's remote Kakuma refugee camp in 2009 after fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he spent the first years recovering and looking, without much success, for something to do with his life. "Refugees are not allowed to work and take employment. They don't have freedom of movement to do what they want, where they want," the 34-year-old said in an interview. But landing some low-paid logistics work with aid groups ope...
Solar-power internet downloads opportunities for African refugees
Solar-power internet downloads opportunities for African refugees
Source: Reuters
25/11/2022 4:25:39 PM
UK reaffirms support for India as permanent member in UNSC The UK has reaffirmed its support for a permanent seat for India in the UN Security Council (UNSC). It has called for an expansion of the UNSC in both permanent as well as non-permanent categories and has also supported permanent seats for Germany, Japan as well as Brazil. This was stated by the UK Ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward. She said that UK's position is well known as her country has long called for the expansion of UNSC in both the categories. "We support t...
UK reaffirms support for India as permanent member in UNSC
UK reaffirms support for India as permanent member in UNSC
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19/11/2022 10:40:48 AM
United Nations chief calls for reaching consensus on climate actions at COP27 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on countries to take climate actions instead of "finger-pointing" at the ongoing UN climate change conference. He made the remarks on Thursday during a press briefing at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is scheduled to close on Friday in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm El-Sheikh. Guterres said that COP27 will come to an end in...
United Nations chief calls for reaching consensus on climate actions at COP27
United Nations chief calls for reaching consensus on climate actions at COP27
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18/11/2022 10:52:45 AM
G20 leaders adopt PM Narendra Modi`s message to Vladimir Putin as Bali Declaration G20 leaders in Bali on Wednesday literally endorsed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, that "Today's era must not be of war". Adopted as Bali Declaration at the end of the G20 summit in the Indonesian city, it can be considered as a diplomatic success for India, as this was the message which Modi had conveyed to Putin during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in Uzbekistan in September this year. The declaration...
G20 leaders adopt PM Narendra Modi`s message to Vladimir Putin as Bali Declaration
G20 leaders adopt PM Narendra Modi`s message to Vladimir Putin as Bali Declaration
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17/11/2022 9:08:59 AM
Women to be at heart of economic growth: UN goodwill envoy In the midst of interlinked crises around the world threatening progress on women's rights and pushing women out of the paid economy, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Anne Hathaway on Monday called for women to be at the heart of economic growth and recovery. Speaking through video message at the Business 20 (B20), the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community tasked with formulating policy recommendations to the G20 Presidency, meeting here, Hathaway said: "As fu...
Women to be at heart of economic growth: UN goodwill envoy
Women to be at heart of economic growth: UN goodwill envoy
Source: IANS
15/11/2022 11:28:04 AM
COP27: India joins 57 nations in long-term strategies for net-zero pathways India on Monday joined 57 nations to have submitted long-term strategies for net-zero pathways at the on-going UN climate summit, COP27, in Egypt. This is a follow-up of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech in Glasgow where he committed to India meeting net-zero goal by 2070. The report, Long Term Low Carbon Development Strategy (LT-LEDS), was launched by Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav at the India@75 pavilion at the COP27 venue in Sharm El-Sheikh. India's approach is ...
COP27: India joins 57 nations in long-term strategies for net-zero pathways
COP27: India joins 57 nations in long-term strategies for net-zero pathways
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15/11/2022 9:56:40 AM
India submits low emission development strategy at COP27 India on Monday submitted its Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), during the ongoing 27th Conference of Parties (COP27), which is aimed at rational utilisation of national resources with due regard to energy security. It further says that the transitions from fossil fuels will be undertaken in a just, smooth, sustainable and all-inclusive manner. The strategy was launched by Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav,...
India submits low emission development strategy at COP27
India submits low emission development strategy at COP27
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15/11/2022 9:46:18 AM
Indian government lays out action plan to promote millet export India is going all out to celebrate 2023 as the International Year of Millets as declared by the United Nations General Assembly. To promote shipment of nutri-cereals, the India's Commerce and Industry Ministry, through its apex agricultural export promotion body, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), has prepared a comprehensive strategy to promote Indian millets exports across the globe, commencing December 2022. For exports of Indian mille...
Indian government lays out action plan to promote millet export
Indian government lays out action plan to promote millet export
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13/11/2022 1:41:00 PM
Global Fund accelerates coral reef resilience action at COP27 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has committed to scaling resilience action in partnership with the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR). USAID's contribution of up to $15 million will accelerate blended finance programming to support the resilience of Egyptian Red Sea communities and their reef ecosystems. On the sidelines of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly in September 2020, the Global Fund for Coral Reefs was launched by a coalition of publ...
Global Fund accelerates coral reef resilience action at COP27
Global Fund accelerates coral reef resilience action at COP27
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9/11/2022 10:01:25 AM
Can COP27 deter Africa from a 'dash for gas' in green energy transition? It may not be on the official agenda at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, but the thorny question of whether African nations should receive financial support to produce, use and export natural gas as part of a clean energy transition is on everyone's lips. Climate campaigners have pitched themselves against African governments that believe they should be allowed to use gas - which emits less climate-heating carbon dioxide than coal and oil when burned - to develop their economies and ...
Can COP27 deter Africa from a 'dash for gas' in green energy transition?
Can COP27 deter Africa from a 'dash for gas' in green energy transition?
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8/11/2022 5:08:10 PM
At COP27, climate 'loss and damage' funding makes it on the table Warned that mounting economic crises should not delay action on increasingly obvious global warming threats, climate negotiators agreed at U.N. talks on Sunday to start discussions on a funding plan to help climate-hit countries cope with surging losses. As the COP27 climate summit opened in Egypt, U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell said concrete action to tackle emissions and climate risks, delayed over decades, could no longer wait as dangerous effects worsen. "There is no one singl...
At COP27, climate 'loss and damage' funding makes it on the table
At COP27, climate 'loss and damage' funding makes it on the table
Source: Reuters
7/11/2022 10:23:53 AM
World must triple investment in renewable energy: UN report Global investments in renewable energy should be tripled by 2050, in order to put the world on the trajectory towards net zero emissions, according to the latest report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The supply of electricity from clean energy sources must be doubled within the next eight years, or global energy security could be undermined, the report was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying. According to the WMO's 2022 State of Climate Services report, ...
World must triple investment in renewable energy: UN report
World must triple investment in renewable energy: UN report
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12/10/2022 3:05:22 PM
India`s economic growth to decline to 5.7% this year: UNCTAD The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its latest report has said that India's economic growth is expected to decline to 5.7 per cent this year from 8.2 per cent in 2021, citing higher financing cost and weaker public expenditures. It further said India's GDP will further decelerate to 4.7 per cent growth in 2023. It mentioned India experienced an expansion of 8.2 per cent in 2021, the strongest among G20 countries. As supply chain disruptions eased, ris...
India`s economic growth to decline to 5.7% this year: UNCTAD
India`s economic growth to decline to 5.7% this year: UNCTAD
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4/10/2022 10:13:37 AM
G4 Ministers meet to strategise UNSC reform as world leaders express support External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his G4 counterparts met to discuss and strategise the reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC) which has been getting wide support from leaders at the high-level meeting of the General Assembly. Besides Jaishankar, the other participants at Thursday's meeting were Foreign Ministers Carlos Franca of Brazil, Annalena Baerbock of Germany, and Yoshimasa Hayashi of Japan. Known as the G4, the four countries lobby for reform of the Council and m...
G4 Ministers meet to strategise UNSC reform as world leaders express support
G4 Ministers meet to strategise UNSC reform as world leaders express support
Source: IANS
23/09/2022 12:27:22 PM
Philippine president to focus on food, energy, climate change at UN General Assembly Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos left for New York on Sunday to participate in the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, with his priority focus on food security, energy and climate change. Marcos is expected to deliver the Philippines' statement on Tuesday. "I will outline our expectations of the United Nations, the role our country will play, and our contributions in strengthening the international system," he said in his departure speech....
Philippine president to focus on food, energy, climate change at UN General Assembly
Philippine president to focus on food, energy, climate change at UN General Assembly
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18/09/2022 11:20:05 AM
In Assembly address, outgoing UNGA President praises Indian diplomat`s services Abdulla Shahid, the UN General Assembly's (UNGA) outgoing President, has praised Indian diplomat K. Nagaraj Naidu for being a "steady hand in a crisis" while he was his chief aide. In his closing address to the Assembly on Monday, he called the Indian Foreign Service officer who served as his chef de cabinet "a truly outstanding diplomat, a steady hand in crisis, committed and hardworking". In addition to deputing Naidu to be Shahid's chief aide and coordinat...
In Assembly address, outgoing UNGA President praises Indian diplomat`s services
In Assembly address, outgoing UNGA President praises Indian diplomat`s services
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13/09/2022 2:41:48 PM
Oil prices jump more than $2 ahead of OPEC+ meeting Oil prices rose more than $2 a barrel on Monday, extending gains as investors eyed possible moves by OPEC+ producers to cut output and support prices at a meeting later in the day. Brent crude futures advanced by $2.43, or 2.6%, to $95.45 a barrel by 0850 GMT after rising 0.7% on Friday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up $2.21, or 2.5%, at $89.08 after a 0.3% gain in the previous session. U.S. markets are closed for a public holiday on Monday. At their meeting later on Monday...
Oil prices jump more than $2 ahead of OPEC+ meeting
Oil prices jump more than $2 ahead of OPEC+ meeting
Source: Reuters
5/09/2022 8:57:52 AM
India, France hold consultations on United Nations Security Council  India and France held consultations on the UN Security Council and multilateral issues in Paris, with both sides briefing each other about their priorities during the countries' upcoming Presidencies of the UNSC in September and December, the Ministry of External Affairs here said on Wednesday. The two sides on Tuesday also held discussions on initiatives around the High Level Week of the upcoming 77th Session of the UN General Assembly in September, according to the Ministry. ...
India, France hold consultations on United Nations Security Council
India, France hold consultations on United Nations Security Council
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31/08/2022 2:57:59 PM
Over half a million tonnes of grain exported from Ukraine: United Nations More than half a million tonnes of grain have been exported from Ukraine across the Black Sea since the beginning of August, the UN said. Since Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the UN agreed to open the Black Sea route at the end of July, 36 passages have been approved, the UN said on Tuesday, adding that 21 ships left Ukraine for the Bosporus and 15 moved through the strait in the direction of the war-torn country. A total of 27 freighters were searched in Turkey as stipulated by the agreem...
Over half a million tonnes of grain exported from Ukraine: United Nations
Over half a million tonnes of grain exported from Ukraine: United Nations
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17/08/2022 12:29:26 PM
`India requires a right mix of public and private sectors`  India can never be fully dominated by the public or private sectors; there has to be right mix of the two and while the governments privatisation effort "is driven chiefly by the consideration of fiscal deficit", the private sector has not risen to the countrys socio-economic challenges, says Ram Kumar Mishra, Senior Professor at the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) and co-author of "Creating, Building and Sustaining an Institution" that traces its contribution o...
`India requires a right mix of public and private sectors`
`India requires a right mix of public and private sectors`
Source: IANS
16/08/2022 2:57:33 PM
Promoting sustainable development needs working with young people: UN chief  Promoting sustainable development and building a better future need working with the young people, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. The UN chief on Thursday made the remarks in a video message to the World Youth Development Forum, organised by the All-China Youth Federation and being held in Beijing from July 21 to 23 under the theme "For a Shared Future: Promoting Sustainable Development with Youth and for Youth". In the video message released by his press of...
Promoting sustainable development needs working with young people: UN chief
Promoting sustainable development needs working with young people: UN chief
Source: IANS
22/07/2022 12:18:30 PM