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🌳Fun fact!🐘 Did you know that forests are home to over 80% of land animals and plants and cover 31% of the world’s total land area? But did you also know that the world is losing 137 species of plants, animals and insects every day to deforestation?

The human greed has made us callous. We want more, we need more and we believe that we are entitled to take from this earth without giving anything back. Forests are vital for food, water and livelihoods — and they affect you, whether you know it or not.

This 3rd March 2021, to make a difference and help wildlife conservation.

Development Mirror is looking for highly self motivated design/social media interns

Eligibility: UG or PG students from Graphic design, Social Science, Statistics, Journalism background

Tenure: 3 to 6 months

Essential: Good at designing infographic creatives for social media platforms

Desirable: Aware of SDG and other development indicators

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Fertility rate down in most states, NFHS-5 finds Kerala only state to record increase in fertility rate, phase 1 of survey finds; urban women had lower fertility rate than women in rural areas in almost all states, but the gap is shrinking

SDG target 7.3 aims to double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency by 2030. Energy intensity indicates the amount of energy needed to produce one unit of GDP– where a smaller value is always desirable pointing towards greater energy efficiency. India has made significant progress in delivering energy efficiency even better than major economies namely China, USA, Russia, several European countries. It has showcased exemplary performance on this front and achieved energy intensity level of 4.1 MJ/US$ that is even lower than the global average of 5.4 MJ/US$.

Energy efficiency and increasing share of renewables are fundamental in achieving several other sustainable development goals. Without accelerated clean energy innovation and transition towards renewables, these agenda 2030 seem far-fetched. As the nation faces the grim economic impact of the pandemic, energy efficiency offers several opportunities to provide the much-needed boost to the economy in the form of employment generation and so on. Although a great deal of uncertainty exists with regard to SDG-7.

SDG target 7.2 aims to increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. Amongst the BRICS nations, Brazil has been leading the way in the share of renewable energy from its total energy mix, drawing advantage from its high potential of electricity production from wind and solar energy sources. India’s share of renewable energy in its final energy consumption stands at 32.2 per cent as of 2017, suffering a decline since the past many years. Even though India’s share of renewable energy is in comparison higher than countries like Russia, USA, China, Japan and Europe, the decline in this share must be controlled. Whereas for countries mentioned above able to sustain the share of renewables in their total energy mix, intense efforts of increasing that share must be realised too.

Compared to electricity access, larger variations can be observed in the access of clean fuel among the Indian states. Meghalaya, West Bengal, and EAG states excluding Uttarakhand still lag in providing universal access to clean cooking fuels, where every second households have no access to clean cooking fuels. A significantly low national average portrays the lack of access to clean cooking fuels posing a core developmental and health challenge. Even Kerala despite high living standards has witnessed glaringly low progress in this aspect. Also, as per NSS-76, there exists a blatant country wide rural-urban divide in the access of clean fuel.

On average, the beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) go for only 3.1 cylinder refills in a year. For the year 2019-2020, around 4.14 crore families never opted for a refill of more than three cylinders. Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan fair the worst in this regard. According to the information stated at the Rajya Sabha recently, since the beginning of the new financial year in April till August 2020, around 1.84 crore families refilled their LPG cylinders only once. This information comes in when the government claimed of providing free cylinders among the poor since the COVID-19 lockdown.

Hence, the challenge further remains to not only increase the access of cleaner fuels to households but to increase the overall consumption per household. Access to cleaner cooking fuels is rather a multi-dimensional issue both in characteristics and implications. The deficiency in access manifests in several forms such as poor health, unequal rural development, poverty, inferior opportunities and a threat to the environment. The stakeholders involved must further consider safety, fuel availability, affordability and quality.

SDG target 7.1 aims to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services by 2030. India’s journey so far has been remarkable in achieving near-universal access to electricity in the last one decade. As per the Saubhagya dashboard, 99.9% per cent of rural households in India have been electrified and less than 20,000 households lack electricity access as of March 2019, but as per NSS-76, more than 6 per cent households in rural areas and 1 per cent households in urban areas had no access to electricity till December 2018. Majority of the states have above 97 per cent access, but larger states such as Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Odisha still lag behind the national average. Rural areas of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand are most deprived with 80 and 85 per cent access to electricity respectively.

According to NFHS-4, in 2015-16, Bihar ranked at the bottom of all states with just 60 per cent of its households having access to electricity. Since then, it has made significant progress in expanding its electricity access to near-universal coverage in the last three years. But despite attaining near-universal electrification for the majority of states, securing continuous and quality supply of electricity to remote villages and poorest households still remains a mighty concern.

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Analysis | Development Mirror What COVID-19 Can Mean for SDG-11, Sustainable Cities and Communities in India by Development Mirror Development August 24, 2020 As urban vulnerabilities are amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of sustainable cities in Sustainable Development Goals needs to be revisited and put in action......

It’s here! Development Mirror been working on the Sustainable Development Goals and potential problems due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here is the first article in the series ‘India’s SDG Agenda 2030 in the wake of COVID-19’

"What COVID-19 can mean for SDG-11, sustainable cities and communities in India."

As urban vulnerabilities are amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of sustainable cities in Sustainable Development Goals needs to be revisited and put in action.

Read ahead to know more.

What COVID-19 can mean for SDG-11, sustainable cities and communities in India As urban vulnerabilities are amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of sustainable cities in Sustainable Development Goals needs to be revisited and put in action

Looking at the global trends of experiencing and declaring the transmission status, India already seems to have joined the countries that are in the community transmission stage, but there are no official announcements. Chart entails that India is at the brink of a timely declaration of community transition.