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30/03/23 07:39 AM IST

State of India’s Environment report

In News
  • The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) recently released the State of India's Environment Report 2023.
Major Findings
  • The report covers an extensive gamut of subject assessments, ranging from climate change, agriculture and industry to water, plastics, forests and biodiversity.
  • Over 30,000 waterbodies have been encroached on in the country and India is generating 150,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste every day — more than half of which is either dumped in landfills or remains unattended.
  • Four years and 11 months is the average duration of life lost to air pollution in India.
  • Rural India is losing more years due to air pollution-related health issues than the urban belt. In fact, rural India needs 35 per cent more community health centres.
  • The environmental crimes continue unabated — courts need to decide on 245 cases every day to clear the backlog.
  • Between January and October 2022 (304 days), India witnessed extreme weather events on 271 days.
  • These extreme weather events claimed over 2,900 lives. India’s overall global rank in meeting the United Nations-mandated sustainable development goals (SDGs) has also slipped by nine places.
  • Cities are becoming waste-wise, learning to segregate at source, minimise plastics and reuse reprocess waste into wealth.
Recommendations
  • We need to have a common minimum programme that brings all countries together on the only issues that matter for humanity: how to avert the existential crisis we face today and how to build a just and inclusive world order.
  • In fact, the pandemic treaty is a welcome development in this direction.
Source- DTE

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