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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Bangalore besieged
Respiratory problems increase with rise in air pollution in Bangalore
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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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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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Promoting agrifood sector transformation in Bangladesh: policy and investment priorities
Agriculture plays a central role in Bangladesh’s economy, especially in rural areas, and further progress in agriculture will remain important as Bangladesh’s economy continues to evolve. Bangladesh has
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Opium of the masses
Poppy and coca cultivation is destroying the ecology of central Colombia
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Global Sustainable Development Goals: The Unresolved Questions for Rio+20
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Preparations for the Rio+20 United Nations conference on sustainable development have begun, but the first round of
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Storehouse of water
although the importance of Himalaya-Karakoram as the largest storehouse of fresh water in the lower latitudes, and the important role of their snow and ice in maintaining the flows of the Indus,
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Closing the door on a convention
By asserting the sovereignty of the right to control their tropical forests, more than 40 developing countries are gearing up to counter the North's attempts to regulate deforestation
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Befitting slow pace
A slowed down ocean circulation has led to Pacific Ocean releasing less amount of carbon dioxide
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Fights for space
Once harmonious, the human-elephant relationship has taken an ugly turn. Faulty forest policies and nationwide destruction of elephant habitats are forcing the animals"otrt of the forests ahd into nearby villages, where pachyderm raids are becoming increa