Jamil Ahmad

HUMANITY’S unrelenting onslaught aga­inst nature has turned catastrophic. Nat­ure is striking back with floods, heatwaves, cyclo­nes and droughts. Environmental disasters, spurred by human-induced climate change, are battering economies, and pushing millions of people into poverty. Poor countries are on the front lines of a war they did not start. Historically, the industrialised Global North was the major contributor to global ...

NOISE has become synonymous with big cities. Far from being a simple irritant, noise pollution has developed into a public health problem, affecting human health, and disturbing the daily life of millions. From New York and London to Karachi, Jakarta, Dhaka and Mumbai, the daily hustle and bustle of crowded streets and the rumbling of vehicular traffic, rail tracks and ...

GROSS Domestic Product has been used as the primary yardstick to measure economic growth, income, expenditure and output. It provides a useful overview of the performance and structure of the market economy for the formulation of fiscal and monetary policy. However, as an indicator of national development, GDP focuses only on produced capital and ignores other forms of capital such ...

THE UN Human Rights Council recogni­sed a clean environment as an independent hum­an right in October 2021. The intersection between human rights and env­i­r­o­n­­m­ental protection had long remained unackno­wledged. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 did not touch upon environmental rights because the priority then was to protect human dignity and development after the devastation of World War ...