Ranvir Nayar, Author at Media India Group

With several debuts, electric planes to dominate 54th Paris Air Show

June 11, 2023

The 54th edition of Paris Air Show, a bi-annual event, said to be the largest aviation event in the world, will open its doors on June 19, marking a return after a gap of four years due to a hiatus forced by the Covid-19 pandemic. And as the visitors will see, a lot has transpire...

New water pollution monitoring system set to make a splash

June 9, 2023

A team of researchers from universities in Scotland, Portugal and Germany have developed a new water pollution sensor which can be printed on 3-D machines, making it readily available everywhere at a very low cost. According to scientists at the Glasgow University, which leads th...

Climate activists launch global action week targetting Japan & G7 leaders

May 15, 2023

Global climate activist group 350.org and members of Fossil Free Japan coalition is leading a worldwide protest to demand that Japan and the rest of G7 leaders immediately stop supporting all fossil fuels. According to a press statement, the protest in Japan has been joined in by...

Tourism sector recovery could be key to Emerging Asian economy futures, says OECD

May 4, 2023

Emphasising that the top 10 developing economies in Asia, clubbed as Emerging Asia, have been resilient to the global crises, a senior official of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has called for proactive measures by the governments in the region t...

French trade unions reinforce stance despite Macron’s steamrolling reforms through Parliament

March 27, 2023

Enthused by the massive turnout for Thursday’s and Saturday’s nationwide strikes in France against the pension reforms proposed by President Emmanuel Macron, trade unions have warned that their actions will only be intensified in the days ahead and have already called for...

Bottled Water masks world’s failure to supply safe water to all, says UN

March 16, 2023

The rapidly-growing bottled water industry can undermine progress towards a key sustainable development goal, that of providing safe water for all, says a new United Nations report. Based on an analysis of literature and data from 109 countries, the report says that in just five ...

Mixed results for India in 2023 SDG4 Scorecard by UNESCO

January 27, 2023

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has released its first scorecard to measure the progress made by countries in meeting their targets for education, as under the Sustainable Development Goal 4 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ...

Cities & Climate change: Time to stop mindless urbanisation

December 6, 2022

In 1920, Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, was a small town that counted barely 20,000 people. Exactly 130 years later, in 2050, the city is expected to be the fourth largest in the world, with 35 million inhabitants, a number that will swell to over 83 milli...

COP27 agreement on Loss & Damage Fund key for poor nations

November 20, 2022

At the end, it seemed like an encore. COP27, the climate change summit at Sharm El Sheikh, the Egyptian Red Sea resort town, was supposed to end on November 18. However, right from the opening plenary, the meeting was wracked by a deep divide between the rich and the poor countri...

Breakthrough agenda at COP27 to accelerate decarbonisation

November 12, 2022

Governments of representing over half of global GDP have reached agreement on a 12-month action plan to help make clean technologies cheaper and more accessible everywhere. They launched a package of 25 new collaborative actions to be delivered by COP28 to speed up the decarbonis...

Eliminating hunger by 2030 need not be a lost cause

November 10, 2022

Findings in the latest report by Global Hunger Index on the situation of hunger worldwide should not have been a surprise most experts had been warning that hunger was becoming more widespread due to numerous factors like drop in harvests due to climate change, the Ukraine war an...

Cop-27 at Sharm El Sheikh is no guarantee for Africa

October 14, 2022

At the ongoing United Nations General Assembly’s annual sittings in New York, there are several issues that have been on the centre-stage, ranging from of course the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the energy and food crisis which is partly linked to the conflict, ...