{"id":20245,"date":"2024-02-08T10:10:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T04:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20245"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:33:01","slug":"wsds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wsds\/","title":{"rendered":"World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About World Sustainable Development (WSDS) Summit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0annual flagship event of The Energy and Resources Institute\u00a0(TERI).<\/li>\n<li>Instituted in 2001, the Summit series has a legacy of over two decades of making \u2018sustainable development\u2019 a globally shared goal.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0only independently convened international summit on sustainable development and environment,\u00a0based in the Global South.<\/li>\n<li>WSDS strives to provide long-term solutions for the benefit of global communities by assembling the world\u2019s most enlightened leaders and thinkers on a single platform.<\/li>\n<li>WSDS 2024 is the\u00a023rd edition of the summit.<\/li>\n<li>WSDS 2024 will take place on the\u00a0theme \u2018Leadership for the Sustainable Development and Climate Justice\u2019.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>TERI is a leading\u00a0think tank dedicated to conducting research for sustainable development of India and the\u00a0Global South.<\/li>\n<li>It is an\u00a0independent, multi-dimensional organization, with\u00a0capabilities in research, policy, consultancy, and implementation.<\/li>\n<li>History:\n<ul>\n<li>TERI was\u00a0established in 1974 as an information centre on energy issues.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Research activities, initiated towards the end of 1982, were rooted in TERI\u2019s firm conviction that efficient utilization of energy and sustainable use of natural resources would propel the process of development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s work across sectors is\u00a0focused on\n<ul>\n<li>Promoting\u00a0efficient use of resources<\/li>\n<li>Increasing access\u00a0to and uptake\u00a0of sustainable inputs and practices<\/li>\n<li>Reducing the impact on environment and climate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0headquartered in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Sustainable Development Goals (SDG\u2019s)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The 17 SDGs are integrated\u2014they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Vice-President-Jagdeep-Dhankhar-inaugurates-World-Sustainable-Development-Summit-in-Delhi&amp;id=476768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurates World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Sustainable Development (WSDS) Summit is the annual flagship event of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}