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    Reclaiming Our Future

    As ESCAP celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, we find ourselves facing our biggest shared test on the back of cascading and overlapping impacts...

    Despite Ideals, Most Americans Don’t Really Like Reducing Inequality, Study Finds

    Researchers say that study participants from advantaged groups, across all ideologies, rejected policies to reduce inequality on the false belief that they would end...

    Population and Development Commission: ‘Perfect Storm’ of Crises Take Shape

    Opening its fifty-fifth session under the theme ‘Population and sustainable development, in particular sustained and inclusive economic growth,’ marks success for a body that...

    Tackling the Pandemic of Inequality in Asia and the Pacific

    Amid continuing uncertainty over when the pandemic will finally be behind us, the one certainty for the region’s policymakers is that the benefits of...

    Do we Really Need a World Ranking to Measure Happiness?

    The idea of a ranking on happiness risks defeating the purpose of the gigantic and noble effort of better understanding how we can be...

    Open Data Advocates Urge International Energy Agency for Free and Open Access to Data

    The authors of the letter argue that open data can provide a wide range of benefits, including access to data for some of the...

    A Budget that Looks Too Far Into the Future

    Social development expenditure and the needs of the people – both prior to COVID-19 but more so during and after the second wave, have...

    Impact of Lost Earnings due to COVID-19 to last for Generations says New Report

    Although households with three or more children were the most likely to experience a loss of income, they were also most likely to receive...

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    Sri Lanka’s Elephant Corridor Plan ‘Unscientific’

    Nearly 5,000 elephants and 1,600 people have been killed in the last 15 years in clashes between elephants and humans in Sri Lanka, home to one of the largest remaining populations of Asian elephants, according to official figures.
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    New Projections Show Extreme Glacier Loss Already at 2°C

    Staying close to 1.5°C on the other hand preserves at least some glacier ice in all regions, even Scandinavia, with 20-30 per cent remaining in the four most sensitive regions; and 40-45 per cent in the Himalayas and Caucuses; stressing the growing urgency of the 1.5°C temperature goal and rapid decarbonization to achieve it.

    Government Extends Interest Relief for Farmers, Reinforces KCC and MISS as Pillars of Agricultural Credit

    Through the KCC framework, farmers benefit from revolving credit facilities for up to five years. This flexible structure allows them to draw and repay funds as per their seasonal requirements without having to reapply for loans each season.

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    Sri Lanka’s Elephant Corridor Plan ‘Unscientific’

    Nearly 5,000 elephants and 1,600 people have been killed in the last 15 years in clashes between elephants and humans in Sri Lanka, home to one of the largest remaining populations of Asian elephants, according to official figures.

    New Projections Show Extreme Glacier Loss Already at 2°C

    Staying close to 1.5°C on the other hand preserves at least some glacier ice in all regions, even Scandinavia, with 20-30 per cent remaining in the four most sensitive regions; and 40-45 per cent in the Himalayas and Caucuses; stressing the growing urgency of the 1.5°C temperature goal and rapid decarbonization to achieve it.