Reports/Findings 2024
=>The global cybercrime report, 2024: India was placed on the 80th position in a report focusing on local threats in the year 2023. The position is based on the malicious programs found directly on users’ computers or removable media connected to them (flash drives, camera memory cards, phones, external hard drives) or that initially made their way onto the computer in non-open form, including programs in complex installers or encrypted files.
=>Lancet Population Trends Report: from "data from the Global Burden of Disease Study".
Read more at: Future Population Trends
=>IQ Air Report 2024: It summarizes the data for the year 2023. India is the 3rd most polluted nation, whereas 1st is Bangladesh & 2nd is Pakistan.
Delhi is the most polluted capital city.
some other findings of the report:
Key findings from the 2023 World Air Quality Report:
- Seven countries met the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline (annual average of 5 µg/m3 or less): Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland, Mauritius, and New Zealand.
- The top five most polluted countries in 2023 were:
- Bangladesh (79.9 µg/m3) more than 15 times higher than the WHO PM2.5 annual guideline
- Pakistan (73.7 µg/m3) more than 14 times higher than the WHO PM2.5 annual guideline
- India (54.4 µg/m3) more than 10 times higher than the WHO PM2.5 annual guideline
- Tajikistan (49.0 µg/m3) more than 9 times higher than the WHO PM2.5 annual guideline
- Burkina Faso (46.6 µg/m3) more than 9 times higher than the WHO PM2.5 annual guideline
- A total of 124 (92.5%) out of 134 countries and regions exceeded the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline value of 5 µg/m3.
- Africa remains the most underrepresented continent, with a third of the population still lacking access to air quality data.
- Climate conditions and transboundary haze were major factors in Southeast Asia, where PM2.5 concentrations rose in nearly every country.
- The region of Central & South Asia was home to the top ten most polluted cities in the world.
- Begusarai, India was the most polluted metropolitan area of 2023. India was home to the four most polluted cities in the world.
- The most polluted major U.S. city was Columbus, Ohio. Beloit, Wisconsin was the most polluted city in the U.S.
- Las Vegas, Nevada was the cleanest major city in the U.S.
- For the first time in the history of this report, Canada was the most polluted country in Northern America, with the region's 13 most polluted cities located within its borders.
- 70% of the real-time air quality data in the region of Latin America & Caribbean comes from low-cost sensors.
=>India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2021(17th Report):
presented in 2021. It is the 17th biennial assessment of India’s forests by the Forest Survey of India, an organisation under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC).
About:
- It is the 17th biennial assessment of India’s forests by the Forest Survey of India,
- an organisation under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC).
- The ISFR 2021 presents the latest status of the 'Forest cover' and 'Tree cover' of the country,
- estimates of growing stock, the extent of trees outside forests, mangrove cover, bamboo resources,
- and assessment of forest carbon stock.
- In addition to the regular chapters, this time round, a special chapter on “Forest Cover assessment in
- Tiger reserves and Tiger corridor areas of the country and decadal change in Forest Cover” has also
- been included.
- Results of the two special studies namely Above Ground Biomass Estimation using Synthetic
Aperture Radar data (carried out in collaboration with ISRO) and Climate hot spots in forest areas studies (carried out in collaboration with BITS Pilani, Goa campus) are also being presented in this report.
- New initiatives taken up in the last two years by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) team are also being
- India's progress towards achieving the Nationally Determined Contribution commitments are also
Key Findings
- The Total Forest and Tree cover is 24.62% of the geographical area of the country.
- The Total Forest cover is 7,13,789 sq km which is 21.71% of the geographical area of the country.
- The Tree cover is 2.91% of the geographical area of the country.
- As compared to ISFR 2019 the current assessment shows an increase of:
- 0.28% of forest and tree cover put together, at the national level.
- Forest Cover: 0.22%
- Tree Cover: 0.76%
- Change in Recorded forest Area/Green Wash (RFA/GW) as compared to previous assessment of 2019.
- Forest Cover within the RFA/GW: A slight increase of 31 sq km.
- Forest Cover outside the RFA/GW: There is an increase of 1,509 sq km.
- The top five states in terms of increase in forest cover:
- Andhra Pradesh>Telangana>Odisha>Karnataka>Jharkhand.
- Forest cover in the hill districts is 40.17% of the total geographical area of these districts. A decrease
- The total forest cover in the tribal districts is 37.53% of the geographical area of these districts.
- Total forest cover in the North-Eastern region is 64.66% of its geographical area. The current
- Mangrove cover: The Mangrove cover in the country has increased by 0.34% as compared to the
- Total Carbon Stock: The total carbon stock in forests is estimated as 7,204.0 million tonnes an increase
- Forest Prone to Fire: The analysis reveals that 22.27% of the forest cover is prone to forest fire.
- Bamboo Forests: The total bamboo-bearing area of the country is estimated as 1,49,443 sq km. There
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