Bangalore besieged
Respiratory problems increase with rise in air pollution in Bangalore
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US, equity and the elephants in the room
<p>Indian top negotiator, R R Rashmi said yesterday at a <a href="http://cseindia.org/content/doha" target="_blank">side event</a> we had organized on equity in climate negotiations that they could not
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UK faces higher risk of flooding and droughts as water crisis looms
The risk of flooding and water shortage in 2013 has increased because the Government is too slow in changing the way we manage our water, environmental leaders warn. The authors of the Blueprint for Water
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Energy politics (part 1): BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: will it force change?
<p>As I watched President Barack Obama speak on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico many thoughts crossed my mind. <br />
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World resources report: creating a sustainable food future- a menu of solutions to feed nearly 10 Billion people by 2050
<p>Ensuring healthy diets for an expected global population of nearly 10 billion people in 2050, while at the same time improving the world those people live in, will require sweeping changes to farming and how we produce food, according to the World Resources Report 2019.</p>
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Transport in China: energy consumption and emissions of different transport modes
Transport volumes and structures in China change drastically as a result of economic and social development in the country. These changes are associated with increasing energy consumption and negative impacts on the environment, e.g. emissions of greenhouse gases and toxic air pollutants affecting not only the micro and macro climate but also health.
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BUFING syndrome for Obama
<p>Obama will grace COP15. And that is the biggest story out here. The story is so big that negotiators are forced to take this fact into their negotiating account. Why? It is because Obama cannot afford to lose a game. It does not really matter if the atmosphere or the planet goes to hell. Bottom line is that Obama must be able to claim a victory. <!--[endif]--><o p=""></o></p>
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The global energy architecture performance index report 2013
<p>This Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) developed by World Economic Forum in collaboration with Accenture benchmarks and ranks 105 countries globally on how well their energy system delivers economic growth and development, environmental sustainability and energy security and access.</p>
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Cancun, Climate negotiations and the national interest
<p>The time has come to develop a national consensus, define the national position and determine red lines for future negotiations, otherwise we risk endangering our future growth prospects.<br />
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Environmental Negotiations
Environmental negotiations have slowly turned into petty business transactions, not the establishment of fair and just global environmental governance systems
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Opium of the masses
Poppy and coca cultivation is destroying the ecology of central Colombia
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Shadowy presence
A haze of pollutants, the size of the US, covers a part of the Indian Ocean sky creating fears of acid rain, low rainfall and a change in environmental politics
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The laboratory of development
How will vast regions of India, where highly unreliable rainfall makes the difference between famine and sustenance, cope with climate change? Over 85 per cent of the cultivated area in this country
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"............ what was the question?"
<p>“…………… what was the question?”</p> <p>If you ask someone living in one of our medium or large cities to name the most serious civic problem faced by his city, he will more likely than not say it is the growing problem of traffic.</p>
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Anthropogenic activities affect marine biodiversity
ALAPPUZHA: Many of the anthropogenic activities adversely affect marine biodiversity, and the globalwarming which brings about change in the temperature and wind pattern makes ocean difficult for animals to survive, said F G Benno Pereira, coordinator, Conservation Research Group, department of Aquaculture and Biochemistry, St Alberts College.
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Ethics dumped
The world over, the pockets where the poor live are used as environmental dumps. PAUL WAPNER debates the environmental ethics of International politics
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Information economy report 2011: ICTs as an enabler for private sector development
The report shows that the potential of leveraging information and communication technologies (ICTs) to develop the private sector is far from fully exploited. It finds that many national and donor strategies
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EU greenmail
The European Union has campaigned for five years for the launch of a world trade round. Changes in the global political and economic climate since last month's US terrorist attacks have brought that
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A little "war" between the North and South
The public debate between Dutch environment minister Hans Alders and Sunita Narain of the Centre for Science and Environment, covering a whole variety of global environmental issues, including the forest convention and the climate convention, turned into
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Draft Puducherry industrial policy 2012
In order to provide a sustainable industrial growth, a draft industrial policy, 2012 has been formulated. The goals set forth in the policy are intended to create a pollution free, less water intensive