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  • Mar 31, 2023
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State Of India’s Environment Report 2023

News: The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and DTE released the State of India’s Environment Report 2023. (Down to Earth)

 

Report highlights include:

 

The nation has seen the encroachment of over 30,000 water bodies, and India generates 150,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) each day, more than half of which is either dumped in landfills or goes unattended.

In India, the typical life lost to air pollution lasts four years, eleven months.

Health problems brought on by air pollution cause more years to be lost in rural India than in the metropolitan core.

35% more community health centres are required in rural India.

Environmental crimes are still being committed, and in order to clear the backlog, judges must make decisions on 245 cases each day.

 

271 days between January and October 2022 saw severe weather in India.

Over 2,900 people died as a result of these severe weather disasters.

India has fallen nine places in the last five years in the worldwide standing for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN, placing 121 in 2022. India comes in last place behind Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal in South Asia.

In agriculture, there is mounting proof of the effectiveness of traditional and regenerative agricultural practises.