Tag: Environmental Sustainability

Highlights of Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2024

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Financing is crucial for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) because it enables countries to invest in the infrastructure, programs, and services necessary to achieve the goals. Without sufficient financing, countries may struggle to make progress towards the SDGs. The United Nations estimates that achieving the SDGs will require an additional $2.5 trillion in annual investment until 2030. Due to misaligned incentives, both public and private actors still invest in brown activities and have not yet fully aligned their decision-making and financing with the SDGs.

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Highlights of Human Development Report 2023/2024

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The HDI is an important, if crude, yardstick for human development. Just a few years ago well-being had never been higher, poverty never lower. Yet people around the world were reporting high levels of sadness, stress, and worry. Those self-reported measures have since risen for nearly 3 billion people. And while 9 in 10 people show unwavering support for the ideal of democracy, there has been an increase in those supporting leaders who may undermine it: today, for the first time, more than half the global population supports such leaders.

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Environmental Teachings in Islam

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Climate change and environmental degradation is a slow and cumulative process. To protect environment, the efforts also need to be cumulative and consistent. A self-centric secular worldview encourages the self-centric use of private property resources. However, even small things done collectively and consistently can have a larger effect. The two-worldly view of life in Islam encourages socially responsible behaviour as one of the prime determinants of salvage in the life hereafter. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: “If the Resurrection were established upon one of you while he has in his hand a sapling, then let him plant it.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 12491).

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Highlights of Global Waste Management Outlook 2024

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This report is intended to be a guide for policymakers, governments, industry, and international organizations, providing knowledge, insights, and actionable steps that can be taken toward a less wasteful world. It does not offer a blueprint nor a single route to the goal, since every country will have its own contextual, socioeconomic, and cultural preferences and priorities.

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Moral Reflections on Economics, Vol 4, Issue 1, 2024

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January 2024 issue of Moral Reflections on #Economics is online. It features article on UN #SDGs and #Gaza Crisis, Highlights of Multidimensional #Poverty Index Report 2023, IEP Public Poll results on Economic Boycott, book review of #Islam and Economic Security by Yousuf Qaradawi, research paper in focus on #Halal tourism by Dr. Punit and regular sections of reflections, #news, economic and financial indicators and call for papers. Download for free.

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Dealing with Climate Challenge

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Because of mere fate, a lot of people in the world, including Pakistan, have ended up in a position where they bear the torment of heat without much to do about it. They can not operate air-conditioners even when the temperature flares up and beyond the 35℃. Many do not even have one. “A man has only a certain capacity for battling with fate’, said Wodehouse. Well! this capacity is amazingly high in some people. But, there is still a long waiting period.

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Climate Crisis Mitigation – Maqasid Al-Shariah Framework in Islamic Economics

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Human behaviour, consumption and business activities have been identified as the main cause of the climate crisis the earth is facing at present, having seriously detrimental effects on the earth’s bio capacity to sustain life. These effects, referred to as anthropogenic impacts, are causing degradation of the globally shared public resource known as natural capital.

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