A draft United Nations report obtained by AFP News contains grim news regarding the future of our planet, positing that the climate crisis “will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.” The leaked report, as AFP News reported last week, involved the contributions of […]
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Environmental degradation contributed to COVID-19 origins, UNEP India says
The COVID-19 pandemic’s origins can be traced to degradation of environmental space, species’ loss and exploitation, according to a leading United Nations Environment Programme official for India. As investigations into the origins of COVID-19 continue, United Nations Environment Programme India Country Office Head, Atul Bagai, highlighted the interconnected balance between environmental degradation and public health, […]
Reducing levels of poverty could help ease India’s energy demands
Households with access to clean fuels, safe water, basic education and adequate food can use as little as half the energy of the national average in their country, according to a study published in Environmental Research Letters. The results of the study examining the link between energy consumption, inequalities and links to well-being in Nepal, […]
Vaccine stockpiling flagged by group
An anti-poverty advocacy group has flagged COVID-19 vaccine stockpiling by high-income countries in a new report. An analysis by the ONE Campaign, a movement which seeks to end poverty and preventable disease by 2030, said a cohort of wealthy nations had stockpiled more than a billion COVID-19 vaccine doses than required. The report examined contracts […]
India’s biggest spenders emit seven times more traceable emissions than the poor
![A thermal powerplant situated @ 20 kms away of raichur [own work, CC license]. Energy infrastructure example.](https://www.healthissuesindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/800px-Raichur_Thermal_Power_Station-150x150.jpg "Energy infrastructure: Why we need to rethink it")
The top twenty percent of high-spending households in India are responsible for seven times as much emissions as the poor, according to a recent study published in Global Environmental Change. Those households that had the top twenty percent of high-expenditure were found to have a carbon footprint with seven times more traceable emissions than those […]
Poverty: The scourge of the hour
During the COVID-19 pandemic, those living in poverty are among the most vulnerable. In India, where “the proportion of employed population below $1.90 purchasing power parity a day in 2019 is 10.7 percent” according to the Asian Development Bank, it is an issue that must be addressed. Earlier this month, the World Bank warned that […]
Abhijit Banerjee made Nobel laureate for his fight against poverty
Indian-born economist Abhijit Banerjee has been jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, together with French-American economist Esther Duflo and American economist Michael Kremer. Abhijit Banerjee is the second Indian-born recipient of the accolade, after Amartya Sen. “The research conducted by this year’s Laureates has considerably […]
Homelessness: An Indian crisis
Homelessness is a crisis in India where, despite decades of development positioning the country as one of the world’s largest economies, wealth inequality is present in staggering proportions. In fact, India is the second most unequal country in the world. Its high rate of homelessness stands as a testament to this grim reality. Approximately four […]
The mosque giving free healthcare to Hyderabad’s poor
In a remarkable first, a mosque has transformed itself into a community health centre for the area’s poor. The Masjid-e-Ishaq – a mosque in the Nawab Saheb Kunta district of Hyderabad – is opening up a thousand square feet of space on its ground floor to offer medical treatment to an estimated 1.5 lakh people. […]
India’s first nutrition atlas goes online
India’s first ever nutritional atlas goes live online, thanks to Telangana’s National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). An essential tool In an exclusive interview with Health Issues India, Dr M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao of the NIN says he hopes that the atlas will useful to “policy makers, programme managers, researchers, media, students and other stakeholders.” Given the […]