India’s population will peak in 2nd half of the century: UN report
World population to peak within this century
World population to peak within this century
The ‘World Migration Report 2024’ by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), a UN body, said that there were 3.47 million Indians in the UAE in 2020, 2.7 million in the United States (US) and 2.5 million in Saudi Arabia,
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)’s situation report has flagged that at least 340,000 Palestinians have been displaced across the Gaza Strip.
The United Nations on Tuesday raised growing security concerns in Afghanistan while highlighting worrisome trends witnessed in recent months, particularly the continuing presence of foreign terrorist groups in the country.
A long-awaited report was released on August 31 in Geneva, minutes before Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights, was set to leave office.
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has dismissed a UN assessment claiming that conflict between armed groups in the country is escalating, claiming that Kabul is not "facing any imminent or probable threat.”
Higher prices and shortages of farming inputs including fertilizers are likely to persist in the region, negatively impacting the agricultural sector in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This will probably result in weaker harvests and exert further upward pressures on food prices in the near term, the report said.
UNEP will be exploring how further investments can be made to reduce fire risks in critical ecosystems around the world.
The findings in a new UN report call for repurposing damaging incentives to achieve more of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and realize the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration.
Each of five scenarios for the future, based on how much carbon emissions are cut, passes the more stringent of two thresholds set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
