Context:-   Earth Over Shoot Day 2022 If the citizens of the world lived like those of the United States, the resources of more than five full planets would be needed to satisfy the global need for resources every year.This data is highlighted annually by the NGO Global Footprint Network, which also publicizes the date on which all humans on Earth have collectively used up more natural resources than mother nature can reproduce in a year.The so-called Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 28 this year - one day earlier than in 2021 and 2019.In 2020, the date of Earth Overshoot [...]

Context:- Last month, India protested against its ranking on the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) of 2022, prepared by researchers at the Yale and Columbia Universities in the U.S. The report measures 40 performance indicators across 11 categories to measure the “state of sustainability [...]

The “official” definition of sustainable development was developed for the first time in the Brundtland Report in 1987. Sustainable development is the idea that human societies must live and meet their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable development is the idea [...]