Warm up to kyoto
The industrialise countries have released billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but want the south to play nanny to them and clean up the mess
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National biodiversity action plan 2008
The National Biodiversity Action Plan approved in November 2008 to augment natural resource base and its sustainable utilisation. The Plan draws from the principles of National Environment Policy,incorporates suggestions made by a consultative committee and proposes to design actions based on the assessment of current and future needs of conservation and sustainable utilization. <!--br-->
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EU Biofuel Data Change Angers Environmentalists
- European biofuels could receive a boost from a change in the way the European Union calculates their impact on the environment, a document shows, angering environmentalists who think they do more harm than good. The European Council document seen by Reuters on Wednesday also annoyed European biodiesel producers who see a bias towards bioethanol.
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Sustainable development in India: stocktaking in the run up to Rio+20
<p><span id="itro1">This new <a href="../../category/thesaurus/ministry-environment-and-forests-moef" target="_parent">MoEF</a> report documents India’s evolving framework for sustainable development
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Remote tab on energy units
BHUBANESWAR: In what could give a solid boost to carbon trading from renewable energy production systems, a remote monitoring mechanism that will keep a tab on actual time of functioning of decentralised energy production units has been designed by the State-run Orissa Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA).
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Source of hope
Water supply projects undertaken in the twin cities of Hubli-Dharwad in Karnataka which face severe drinking water every year, hold a promise of more water from the Malaprabha
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Blowing in the wind
<p> Answers to why dust storms are on the rise in East Asia. Over the past two decades there has been an increase in the outbreak of dust storms over East Asia. Large quantities of dust particles
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Big cities, big water, big challenges: water in an urbanizing world
The growth of the earth’s urban population and areas continues as a major demographic trend; it is projected that 70 % of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. Urban growth today is
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The trade effects of phasing out fossil-fuel consumption subsidies
Quoting a joint analysis undertaken by the OECD and the IEA, G-20 leaders committed in September 2009 to ―rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage
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Worldrisk report 2011
The focal topic of the WorldRiskReport 2011 is governance and civil society. The report examines the natural hazards related issues at the global level and draws conclusions for future actions in assistance,
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In court
TO MINE OR NOT: The Supreme Court of India has asked the Madhya Pradesh government to explain why the mining activity in the state should not be restrained. Petitioner Ajay Dubey, secretary of Prayatna, a Bhopal-based NGO, pointed out that a number of mining leases were functioning illegally across the state. The state pollution board had also admitted that of the 5,069 mining leases across the
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It Is Smokin
Human-induced emissions are on the rise, says a new study In a recent study, the Global Carbon Project stated that carbon emissions from human activity have grown nearly four times faster than in the 1990s. The emissions grew at 3.5 per cent per year between 2000 and 2007 as against 0.9 per cent per year between 1990 and 1999.
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Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica from 1992 to 2011
We measure the grounding line retreat of glaciers draining the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica using Earth Remote Sensing (ERS-1/2) satellite radar interferometry from 1992 to 2011. Pine Island
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The Copenhagen Accord: abatement costs and carbon prices resulting from the submissions
As part of the Copenhagen Accord, individual countries have submitted greenhouse gas reduction proposals for the year 2020. This paper analyses the implications for emission reductions, the carbon price,
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Revisiting the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008
We review the sea-level and energy budgets together from 1961, using recent and updated estimates of all terms. From 1972 to 2008, the observed sea-level rise (1.8 ± 0.2 mm yr−1 from tide gauges alone
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Udayapur locals forced to walk three hours for a bucket of water
The locals in the most remote Mainamaini VDC of Udayapur have been faced by acute drinking water shortage.They are forced to walk a distance of three hours everyday to fetch a bucket of water.So far
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Pollution test must every three months
Every motor vehicle, whether conforming to the Euro II norms or not, plying in NCT of Delhi will have to be tested for pollution every three months. Union Minister of State for Home Affairs told the
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New scenarios for future emissions
When presenting its thematic strategy on air pollution three years ago, the European Commission failed to come up with proposals for specific action to reduce air pollutant emissions.
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Market-based approaches for managing the Asian environment: a review
This paper identifies inadequate effort to use market-based approaches, among others, as a reason for limited progress in arresting continuing environmental degradation in the Asia and Pacific region.
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Post-Jonglei planning in southern Sudan: combining environment with development
In 2008, the Sudanese and Egyptian governments decided to resume work on the Jonglei Canal project, which had been abandoned for 24 years. This project in southern Sudan plans to by-pass, and thus drain, part of the wetlands of the Bahr al-Jabal and Bahr az-Zaraf rivers into the White Nile.