2020 saw environment bounce back to its glory, even if temporarily
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Last Updated: Jan 01, 2021, 04:20 PM IST
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According to the Central Pollution Control Board, there was a significant improvement in air quality during lockdown (from March 22 to May 18) as PM2.5 in Delhi reduced by almost 50 per cent as compared to levels observed during 2019.
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The pollution level in India s five most-polluted cities - Ghaziabad, Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida and Gurgaon - came down by over 50 per cent during the first 10 days of the lockdown.
New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic battered and bruised the world in 2020, teaching the value of human life, but an evident positive impact was that it helped the environment bounce back to its glory, even if temporarily.
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Climate migration in Bangladesh could increase by up to seven-fold, displacing three million people from their homes by 2050 due to climate disasters, a new study found.
The rate of migration in the country is more than double the average migration rate of any other South Asian country.
The displacement and climate-related migration could rise to 900,000 by 2030. Under current mitigation pledges and targets demonstrating lower ambition, Bangladesh could see a seven-fold increase in displacement and distress migration by 2050, states the study, titled Costs of climate inaction: displacement and distress migration , by ActionAid and its par
The Covid-19 pandemic has, ironically, thrown into sharp focus the plight of a largely invisible constituency India’s migrant population. After the Centre hastily imposed a poorly-planned lockdown to check the march of the disease, public discourse was dominated by horror at the stories and images of the suffering of migrants who, lacking food, shelter, medicines and employment, were forced to walk great distances to reach home. Many of them died on the way in accidents or on account of exhaustion. What compounded the crisis was not only the government’s abject failure to anticipate the needs of this constituency but also its shocking indifference to the importance of maintaining a database on migrants that could have helped formulate targeted welfare interventions.