State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
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The little green data book 2009
The Little Green Data Book 2009 points to the world
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Equitable economic growth challenge for Asian countries
Ensuring equitable economic growth and protecting the environment will be the most crucial challenges facing the Asian countries in the coming years, acclaimed academics said at a symposium yesterday. Policymakers must come up with strategies from a new angle, unlike the traditional approach to growth which is not sustainable, they said at a symposium titled "Imagining Another Future for Asia:
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South Asia: A Trash Can?
It's time South Asian countries took Iaction to tackle the POP menace. To begin with, they should tell the West that South Asia is not a dirty clumpyard where they can get rid of their toxic wastes
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Caught vulnerable
Turkmenistan is trying to cash in on Russia's and Ukraine's need for its gas during the severe winter. It has stopped gas supplies to the two countries, saying it wants to negotiate a new price. "The
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UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations (UN), in association with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has granted an aid of US $153.7 million out of the total US $461.2 million cost of 14 environmental projects in
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Russian bonanza for Japan
China recently lost a crucial energy battle to Japan. The Russian government announced the construction of a "system of pipelines' from its Siberian oilfields to the Pacific Ocean opposite Japan.
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No kind payment
The Russia-Turkmenistan row over natural gas price has been resolved. For over three months, Turkmenistan negotiated for a nearly 30 per cent hike in the price of the gas sold to Russia, which
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Govt steps on Phulbari open-pit mine after finalisation of coal policy
Special assistant to the chief adviser, M Tamim, on Thursday said that the government would take
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Fuelling exclusion?: the biofuels boom and poor peoples access to land
What are the impacts of the increasing spread of biofuels on access to land in producer countries, particularly for poorer rural people? Biofuels could revitalise rural agriculture and livelihoods
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Access to energy for the poor: an Asia-Pacific regional initiative
In support of its poverty alleviation mandate, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to increasing access to clean and affordable energy for people throughout the Asia and Pacific region, particularly the poor.