Posted on January 5th, 2021
Prime Minister’s Media Unit
UNDP
Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, Mr. Robert Juhkam officially handed over
the Global Human Development Report (HDR 2020) to Prime Minister Mahinda
Rajapaksa today at his residence in Wijerama.
The
Human Development Report (HDR), is the annual flagship report published by the
Human Development Report Office of the UNDP that evaluates and measures human
progress. This year’s 30
th publication, emphasises on the
relationship between people and nature, focusing on the impact that human
activity has on the earth and stresses on the importance of improving people’s
lives while working towards an inclusive and sustainable future for all.
Bold steps required to ease planetary pressure – UNDP Report
The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world. Unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint.
The 30th anniversary edition of the Human Development Report, ‘The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene’, lays out a stark choice for world leaders – take bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world, or humanity’s progress will stall.
Pardee Center Co-Hosts Webinar on the Future of Sustainable Development
On December 14, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) co-hosted a webinar titled “The Future of Sustainable Development in
The World After Coronavirus.” The webinar, which served as the Plenary Dialogue of SDPI’s 23rd Sustainable Development Conference, built on one of the major themes from the Pardee Center’s
The World After Coronavirus (#WorldAfterCorona) video series. Bringing together four of Pardee School Dean Adil Najam‘s guests from the series, the conversation explored the future of sustainable development in a COVID-19 world.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
United Nations Development Programs goals graphic.
An experimental global index offers a new measurement of human progress that illustrates the challenge of tackling poverty and inequality while easing planetary pressure.
UNITED NATIONS, New York–December 16th, 2020–The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint.
The report lays out a stark choice for world leaders – take bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world, or humanity’s progress will stall.
United Nations Human Development Report 2020 released; What is UNHDR? What is India s position? An explainer Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 19:11 IST
The UNDP Human Development Index ranking 2020 is out. India has slipped a spot to 131. What does the UN Development Index measure? Here s an explainer. United Nations Human Development Report 2020
The 2020 Human Development Report is released. Though India slipped to 131, a step lower than the year before, the UNDP Resident Representative Shoko Noda has praised India s commitment to reduce carbon emissions and said that India can help other nations too.
The UN has highlighted the unnatural pressures on humans and governments this year due to the COVID-1 pandemic that began in Wuhan, China late last year and spread across the world.