The United Nations
Nations must start weighing up the cost of economic profit against damage to the environment if they are to have a chance at a sustainable future, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday.
The UN chief highlighted that the global economy increased almost fivefold in the past fifty years, but that growth was at a massive cost to the environment.
Up to now, humanity has treated nature as a free commodity. The price is climate change, pollution and mass extinction. It is high time to #MakeNatureCount , and to go beyond GDP as the only measure of economic success (video via @UNDESA). pic.twitter.com/v6e5oUdfO9
March 02, 2021
Reef fish and corals in the waters of the Seychelles archipelago. courtesy UNDP
NEW YORK Nations must start weighing up the cost of economic profit against damage to the environment if they are to have a chance at a sustainable future, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday.
The UN chief highlighted that the global economy increased almost fivefold in the past fifty years, but that growth was at a massive cost to the environment.
“Nature’s resources still do not figure in countries’ calculations of wealth. The current system is weighted towards destruction, not preservation,” he said.
Director, United Nations Statistics Division
Stefan Schweinfest was appointed Director of the Statistics Division (UNSD/DESA) in July 2014. Under his leadership, the Division compiles and disseminates global statistical information, develops standards and norms for statistical activities including the integration of geospatial, statistical and other information, and supports countries efforts to strengthen their national statistical and geospatial systems.
As the Director of the Statistics Division, Stefan Schweinfest supported the work of Statistical Commission and its Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) to develop the global indicator framework to monitor progress towards the SDGs, which was adopted by UNSC at its 48th session in March 2017 and subsequently by ECOSOC and the General Assembly. Under his leadership, the Division works on implementing this framework and ensuring countries receive capacity building support to monitor
File photo of retired Supreme Court Justice Kurian Joseph. | HT photo
Retired Supreme Court Justice Kurian Joseph on Sunday said that the independence of judiciary was under threat due to various factors, including those from inside the institution.
“A judge must have true faith and allegiance to the Constitution,” he said, while addressing a webinar. “This means that a judge’s allegiance should not be coloured by political, communal, philosophical bias, or bias of arbitrariness.”
Joseph said that currently the judiciary was divided along political and communal lines in an unprecedented manner. “I have never seen the Supreme Court of India’s Bar so politically and communally divided,” he added. “And that is the situation in several High Courts across the country also.”
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