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Global risks 2012
<p><span id="itro1">The world will face water, food and energy shortages over the next 10 years & it is likely that economic growth will suffer as demand for basic resources soars warns WEF in this
<p><span id="itro1">The world will face water, food and energy shortages over the next 10 years & it is likely that economic growth will suffer as demand for basic resources soars warns WEF in this
<p><span id="itro1">India has been ranked at the 125th in terms of tackling pollution and natural resource management challenges, according to 2012 Environmental Performance Index prepared by Yale and
Recently the Web site The Politico asked Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, why she was blocking attempts to tack offshore drilling amendments onto appropriations bills. "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet,' she replied. I'm glad to hear it. But I'm still worried about the planet's prospects. ... Most criticism of John McCain's decision to follow the Bush administration's lead and embrace offshore drilling as the answer to high gas prices has focused on the accusation that it's junk economics
This volume is part of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being that offers the best and most recent work in the transdisciplinary field of ecological economics, whose focus is the study of the relationship between economic activity and environmental sustainability.
Proposals for greenhouse-gas reductions have been met with widespread skepticism in the developing world, in part because such countries find their conventional air-pollution problems more pressing. The goal of this article is to examine whether reductions in carbon emissions that are ancillary to conventional pollutant reductions from a policy to phase out small boilers in downtown Taiyuan, China are large enough to make such policies attractive carbon reducing investments to developed countries.
Global food demand is increasing rapidly, as are the environmental impacts of agricultural expansion. Here, we project global demand for crop production in 2050 and evaluate the environmental impacts of
"Contraction and Convergence' (C&C) is the science-based, global climate-policy framework, proposed to the United Nations since 1990 by the Global Commons Institute (GCI).
THE draft National Environment Policy (NEP: http://envfor.nic.in/nep/nep.pdf) released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has attracted much attention. It represents the first-ever attempt to draft a policy for the environment as a whole. At first glance, the document appears to be quite comprehensive and sophisticated.
My worst fears are coming true; and that has more to do with the politics of climate change than its reality. While concern on global warming reaches a crescendo, the world, instead of finding
<p><span id="itro1">Addressing the challenges of water management and governance in rural and urban areas, this new IDFC report deals with water politics, leakage of water in urban areas as well as the
Hong Kong has joined the international carbon trading structure with a promise to slash emissions, but analysts say the move will fail to produce any serious reductions in greenhouse gases. "It is a bit of an impotent gesture and is about four years too late," said Shane Spurway, head of carbon banking at Fortis Bank. In a low-key press release sent out just before a public holiday weekend earlier this month, the city's Environmental Protection Department said it had set up the legal framework to allow projects that could sell on their reductions in carbon emissions.
In October 2004, Down To Earth carried out a survey on people's perception of climate change. We sought replies for the following questions: • What kind of local/regional changes in climate
An environmentally friendly turbine that is powered only by the flow of water, but that can irrigate 5,000 hectares of land, could solve a pressing problem for small farmers in developing countries.
Perak is prepared to supply 100 million litres of untreated water to the Klang Valley. Mentri Besar Tan Sri Ramli Ngah Talib said yesterday the water could be channelled through a special tunnel
The Awami National Party, which recently broke off its alliance with the ruling party of Minister Nawaz Shariff, on Saturday declared open war on the Prime Minister over the controversial Kalabagh
The four state governments which stand to benefit from the Narmada dam project have been presenting their rehabilitation schemes to the Supreme Court for the past two days, in hope of getting work on
A new analysis published in Nature (May 15, 2008) revealed that a large number of physical and biological systems across the planet are being affected by global warming. The impacts range from
The g7 has decided to establish a "bioterrorism crisis centre' and provide millions of shots to the World Health Organisation's international "vaccine bank' to counter any germ weapon attack by
On March 2nd, North Korea's official news agency issued its grimmest warning about food shortages. It said the country would run out of grain by mid-March, despite cutting daily rations from 300
At a time when a sinister cloud of local and foreign greed, official lethargy and people's lack of concern hangs over the problem of conserving our biodiversity, the People's Biodiversity Registers