Environment and Ecology Climate Change UN takes new measures to fight climate change The UN’s World Meteorological Organization has come up with a new Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure that aims to provide better ways of measuring planet-warming pollution and help inform policy choices. The WMO’s new platform will integrate space-based and surface-based observing systems, and seek to clarify uncertainties about where green-house gas emissions end up. It should result in much faster and sharper data on how the planet’s atmosphere is changing. Govt-welfare oriented Govt schemes India reducing dependence in healthcare, says Modi “The cashless health insurance scheme (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana] has led to the healthcare savings of nearly Rs.80,000 crore for patients. Additionally, savings of Rs.20,000 crore have been achieved through buying of generic medicines by patients from the Jan Aushadhi Kendras, “The Prime Minister added.