This step-by-step guide on the implementation of the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach is structured around the policy and programme management cycle of the approach. CSDRM aims to tackle disasters, including sudden and slow-onset disasters exacerbated by climate change, as well as poverty and adaptation through improved integration.

This report contains 56 recommendations to put sustainable development into practice and to mainstream it into economic policy as quickly as possible. It includes a call for governments and international organizations to increase the resources allocated to adaptation and disaster risk reduction and integrate resilience planning into their development budgets and strategies.

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a roadmap that outlines its goals and objectives for the enhanced control, prevention, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases. Accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases – A roadmap for implementation builds on the success of WHO’s integrated approach for controlling these devastating diseases of poverty and the steady progress achieved since 2005.

In order to feed a population of 9 billion in 2050, the world will need a New Vision for Agriculture - delivering food security, environmental sustainability and economic opportunity through agriculture. This will require producing more food with fewer resources while reinvigorating rural economies. It can only be achieved through collaboration, investment and innovation among all stakeholders. This report outlines the concrete actions that can be taken to achieve such a vision, and the tools we can use to measure progress.

The tiny fraction of freshwater not bound up in ice sheets and glaciers comprises only a very small fraction of total global water volume (about 0.79 %). Global use of that freshwater, however, has been growing at roughly twice the rate of global population for the past century. Even so, this volume of unfrozen freshwater is still more than adequate to meet all human needs. However, this essential resource, which is mostly stored as groundwater, is distributed quite unevenly around the globe.

This report analyses developments in the global renewable energy market in 2011 and makes forecasts for the year ahead. Looking back at 2011, the report found that wind, solar, biomass and energy efficiency dominated the renewables sector, striking deals worth more than US$1 billion. The report also notes that several consolidation moves in solar played a significant role in deal activity.

This Annual Report of the carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR) presented to the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, the UN Climate Secretariat and the global climate community assembled in Durban, reflects the determination of cities worldwide to pursue their climate policies and actions with transparency and accountability. Over the past year, 51 cities – diverse in geography, economies, size and structure – have voluntarily submitted a range of data that we have condensed into an easily accessible format.

India has been ranked at the 125th in terms of tackling pollution and natural resource management challenges, according to 2012 Environmental Performance Index prepared by Yale and Columbia Universities.