Legal Current Affairs for 31 October 2025

Introduces specific provisions for packages containing medical devices, aligning the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011 with the Medical Devices Rules, 2017.
It provides that while requirement to make mandatory declarations remains, the specific font size and dimensional standards prescribed under Medical Devices Rules shall apply instead of those under Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules.
It aims to ensure regulatory harmony, reduce compliance ambiguity, and enhance consumer protection in the healthcare sector.

Disproportionate Emissions from Wealth Ownership: Top 1% contributes 15% of global consumption-based emissions but 41% of emissions arising from private capital ownership.
Extreme Emission Inequality: Per capita emissions of the top 1% are 75 times higher than those of the bottom 50% by consumption.
Concentration of Industrial Emissions: Around 100 companies are responsible for 71% of industrial GHG emissions.

Finance Gap: Developing nations face an adaptation shortfall of $310–365 billion/year by the mid-2030s.
Current Funding: Global adaptation finance is only $26 billion, far below needs.
Implementation Lag: Most nations have plans, but execution and quality remain weak.
Urgent Action: Calls for a major scale-up in finance, innovative tools, and stronger resilience planning.
India’s Scenario: India has advanced its National Adaptation Fund and State Action Plans, but remains highly vulnerable to heat stress, erratic monsoons, and coastal flooding.