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7.5 million new cases of TB in 2022: WHO Global Report

    • World Health Organisation recently released the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report.
  • Key Highlights of the report
  • 7.5 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2022
  • India, Indonesia and the Philippines collectively accounts for nearly 60% of the reduction in the number of people newly diagnosed with TB in 2020 and 2021.
  • TB caused an estimated 1.30 million deaths in 2022

Production Gap Report 2023

  • The Production Gap Report 2023 was jointly released by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Climate Analytics, E3G, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) recently
  • The report states that many countries are planning to produce twice as much fossil fuels in 2030 which is more consistent with limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius than limiting it to 1.5 degrees Celsius

About Production Gap Report 2023

  • Launch – 2019
  • It tracks the discrepancy between countries’ planned fossil fuel production and global production levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C
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