In 2020, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) joined forces with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Economics for Nature (E4N) team to launch
We should not wait to cut back on burning fossil fuels until we have developed greener technology to supply our energy needs, despite what many economists are advising their respective governments. Such a waiting game may have deadly consequences. Feb 27, 2008
George Monbiot Britain's official approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are, the more yours is worth
Four Standard XI students will compete for the international title For Agastya Muthanna, it's the sight of bleached corals while scuba diving off the Andaman Islands that sparks off his concern over global warming. Quite apart from wildlife, Ann Raymond is shocked by what she has learnt of the human costs of climate change. For K.N. Shruti and Archana Jayaram, one man's efforts have awakened them to the global crisis: "Al Gore,' they chorus together. The four Standard XI students, along with Jaswanth Madhavan (who was unable to be present) were selected as the southern region's Indian Climate Champions 2008 by the British Council on Friday. Later this month, they will compete with 15 youngsters from other parts of the country to be selected as International Climate Champions, who will attend an awareness and training camp in London and then represent youth interests at the meeting of Environment Ministers from the G8+5 countries in Japan. In spite of those global prospects, the four students have planted their own climate change solutions squarely in the realm of individual and corporate action, rather than international diplomacy. "There are too many top-down government approaches which are not effective. We need to push for CSR [corporate social responsibility],' says Agastya, a student of Aditi International School in Bangalore, who is convinced enough of the importance of environmental economics that he intends to study it. "It's important to mobilise youngsters. And everyone talks about the cities, how about village youth? At the end of the day, it's the farming communities who are worst affected, and they have the least awareness,' says Archana of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School in Chennai. Her schoolmate Shruti chimes in: "We need to take more initiative and be responsible for our actions.' Solutions suggested Switching from incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent lamps, planting trees and conducting energy audits in their schools and homes, car-pooling and using eco-friendly fuels are among their suggestions for solutions that Indian youth can actually put into practice. "After all, little drops of water make mighty oceans,' says Ann, a student of Bhavan's Vidya Mandir in Kochi. Whether they make it to London or not, the students will have a chance to spread their ideas. "We plan to create opportunities for them to engage through youth programmes, meetings with Ministers and the media,' said Anu Thampi, British Council programme coordinator.
The challenge in working with environmental improvements is to select the action offering the most substantial progress. However, not all actions are open to all actors in a product chain. This study demonstrates how life cycle assessment (LCA) may be used with an actor perspective in the Swedish postfarm milk chain.
Industrial symbiosis (IS) has been used to describe the physical exchange and shared management of input and output materials by geographically proximate firms. Firms that engage in IS are said to belong to an industrial ecosystem.
Wetland management may be improved by evaluating nonlinear relationships of economic value and ecological services.
The forest biome of Amazonia is one of Earth's greatest biological treasures and a major component of the Earth system. This century, it faces the dual threats of deforestation and stress from climate change. In this article, the authors summarize some of the latest findings and thinking on these threats, explore the consequences for the forest ecosystem and its human residents, and outline options for the future of Amazonia.
China's economic growth in the past three decades has been the fastest among major nations, with an almost 10% annual increase in gross domestic product. However, its environmental degradation has also accelerated, and its environmental sustainability index is near the bottom among the countries of the world.
Recycling
The study deals with a range of selected issues in the areas of natural resource accounting in land and forest sectors namely physical accounting and valuation issues which are imperative in conversion of physical accounts into monetary accounts and for the integration of the latter into the
