Island countries in the Pacific face very specific challenges when it comes to energy security. With a limited supply of domestic fossil fuels, they have historically depended on imported fuels like diesel
Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 30, 2008, 0:48 ISTIndia should aim to generate a fifth of its capacity expansion in the current plan period (2007-12) from renewable energy to avoid climate change effects, said United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Unido).
NEW DELHI: The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) said here on Thursday that climate change was likely to have a greater impact on India compared to other countries similarly positioned, on account of the unique combination of its geography, diverse population characteristics and extremely high carbon-related energy dependence.
UNIDO report puts Singapore on top NEW DELHI: India trails behind 40 other countries, including Thailand, Malta and Malaysia, in the field of industrial competitiveness, according to a report by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO).
India has signed $42 million "Country Programme India 2008-2012' with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to strengthen the competitiveness and productivity of its industrial enterprises, with a special focus on employment generation and the greening of industry.
In an effort to reduce the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) pesticides from polluting the atmosphere and harming human lives, India has initiated a National Implementation Plan. Being a signatory to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, a national plan sensitising different stakeholders about the obligations of India as a party to the convention and to develop strategies and action plans for the reduction and elimina tion of the target chemicals. The Stockholm Convention has come into force in India in 2006.
New Delhi, Apr 9 An ambitious and innovative four-year project, which aims at strengthening India's role as a leader in the world cane and bamboo industry, was launched here on Wednesday by the Union minister for the development of northeastern region, Mani Shankar Aiyar, at a function in the presence of the UNIDO director-general Kandeh Yumkella.
people in West Bengal are highly susceptible to arsenic poisoning because of their food habits, states a report of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (unido). According to it, the
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THIS UNIDO study is an useful data source on the world's pharmaceutical industry and has been used in the World Development Report, 1993. The UNIDO data files on this often secretive industry are
