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“Households Waste At Least One Billion Meals A Day”, Reveals UN Report
28Mar By adminNo Comments
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“Households Waste At Least One Billion Meals A Day”, Reveals UN Report

[ad_1] The United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Food Waste Index Report 2024 was released recently. It revealed that the world wasted one-fifth of the total food available in 2022. This amounts to 1.05 billion tonnes (or 19 per cent) of food available to consumers "at the retail, food service, and household level." At the same time, 783 million people around the world suffer chronic hunger and a third of the world's population faces food insecurity. The report showed that households are the key culprit when it comes to overall food wastage.Also Read: Colombia Introduces World's First 'Junk Food Law' To Prevent Lifestyle Diseases: Reports"The equivalent of at least one billion meals of edible food is being wasted in households worldwide every single day, using a very conservative...
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Social impact at scale with thoughtful APIs groomed with good design
14Mar By adminNo Comments
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Social impact at scale with thoughtful APIs groomed with good design

[ad_1] Navanwita Bora Sachdev is a freelance contributor and the Editor of The Tech Panda.The consequences of using Application Programming Interfaces (API) are undoubtedly far reaching, something that could be heaven sent for dispersing information and services on a large scale. Groomed with good design, thoughtful APIs for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) could transform a society into a well-informed entity. APIs are often called the unsung heroes a user doesn't know about. Few users know just how many APIs are serving their needs in even the simplest of digital contractions, whether it's hailing an Uber, making a peer-to-peer payment, or communicating with a company via WhatsApp. APIs even drive streaming services like Netflix. In each of these, the customer-facing compa...
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World-Wide, People Waste 1 Billion Tonnes Of Food Each Year: Report
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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World-Wide, People Waste 1 Billion Tonnes Of Food Each Year: Report

[ad_1] "Don't waste your food". This is one common statement we have grown up hearing (from our elders). Ever wondered why? It is because wasting food is ethically a bad practice and also wastes natural resources. But you should know that it also bad for environment and global climate. It was shocking to find out that the world wastes around one billion tonnes of food every single year! This means, around one-third of the food, which is produced globally, gets wasted. The finding was a part of 'Food Waste Index Report 2021' released by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). "The evidence is becoming too hard to ignore. Food systems reform is critical to tackling the planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and pollution and waste," the report reads.The repor...
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UN Chief In Pakistan To Boost Flood Aid For Millions Affected
9Sep By adminNo Comments
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UN Chief In Pakistan To Boost Flood Aid For Millions Affected

[ad_1] Pakistan officials say it will cost at least $10 billion to rebuild and repair damaged infrastructure.Islamabad: United Nations chief Antonio Guterres began a two-day visit to flood-hit Pakistan Friday that officials hope will boost global support for a humanitarian crisis affecting millions.A third of the country is under water - an area the size of the United Kingdom - following record rains brought by what Guterres has described as "a monsoon on steroids".Pakistan officials say it will cost at least $10 billion to rebuild and repair damaged infrastructure -- an impossible sum for the deeply indebted nation -- but the priority, for now, is food and shelter for millions made homeless."Everything is drowned, everything washed away," said Ayaz Ali, suffering from fever as he reluct...
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Pandemic Set Human Development Back By 5 Years Globally: UN Report
8Sep By adminNo Comments
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Pandemic Set Human Development Back By 5 Years Globally: UN Report

[ad_1] It means we die earlier, we are less well educated, our incomes are going down. (Representational)United Nations: A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them COVID-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.The UN Development Program (UNDP) announced that for the first time since it was created over 30 years ago, the Human Development Index -- a measure of countries' life expectancies, education levels, and standards of living -- has declined for two years straight, in 2020 and 2021."It means we die earlier, we are less well educated, our incomes are going down," UNDP chief Achim Steiner told AFP in an interview."Just under three parameters, you can get a sense of why so many pe...
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Full Gender Equality Still 300 Years Away At Current Rate: UN Report
7Sep By adminNo Comments
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Full Gender Equality Still 300 Years Away At Current Rate: UN Report

[ad_1] There were 44 million women and girls who had been forcibly displaced by 2021. (Representational)United Nations: Full gender equality will take almost 300 years to achieve at the current rate of progress, the United Nations warned in a report released Wednesday, saying multiple current crises have aggravated disparities."At the current rate of progress, the report estimates that it will take up to 286 years to close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory laws, 140 years for women to be represented equally in positions of power and leadership in the workplace, and at least 40 years to achieve equal representation in national parliaments," said UN Women, which compiled the study.That is very far from the goal of reaching gender equality by 2030, as set out in the UN Sust...
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Need To Address Challenges Encountered By Peace Operations: India At UN
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Need To Address Challenges Encountered By Peace Operations: India At UN

[ad_1] Ruchira Kamboj voiced India's readiness to contribute furtherUnited Nations: Underlining that UN peacekeeping has become increasingly challenging in face of growing violence across conflict hotspots, India has called for reassessing the Security Council's approach towards peacekeeping and to address operational and other challenges faced by these operations."Today, UN peacekeeping is becoming increasingly challenging in the face of growing violence across conflict theaters, with a diminishing focus on the political process," India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj said while addressing the UNSC briefing on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations on Tuesday.She said that it is critical to reassess the Council's approach towards peacekeeping as well as to...
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India Plays Important Role At United Nations, Says UN General Assembly President
29Aug By adminNo Comments
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India Plays Important Role At United Nations, Says UN General Assembly President

[ad_1] New Delhi: President of the United Nations General Assembly Abdulla Shahid acknowledged on Monday the important role played by India at the global body, while describing the country as a "source of pride" for not only South Asia, but for all peace-loving democracies.Acknowledging the pivotal role the country played during the COVID-19 recovery phase, Shahid, who is the foreign minister of the Maldives, underscored that India had proven to be the "pharmacy of the world" and assisted several countries in the remotest parts of the globe.On a visit to India, Shahid held talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday, covering a range of key issues, including cooperation at the UN.The UNGA president also called on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, who congratulated him for ...
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UN Not Sure When Report On China’s Xinjiang Will Be Published
25Aug By adminNo Comments
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UN Not Sure When Report On China’s Xinjiang Will Be Published

[ad_1] The report has been repeatedly delayed, to the growing outrage of rights groups.Geneva: The UN human rights chief said Thursday that it remained unclear whether a long-delayed report on China's Xinjiang region will be published before she steps down next week."I had fully intended for it to be released before the end of my mandate, and we ... have received substantial input from the government that we will need to carefully review," Michelle Bachelet told reporters.Bachelet said nearly a year ago that her office was finalising a report on the rights situation in the Xinjiang region, where Beijing stands accused of detaining more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities -- charges it vehemently denies.But the report has been repeatedly delayed, to the growing outrage of...
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