The overall goal of this report is to help water resources and environment professionals within the Bank and client countries use strategic environmental assessment (SEA) to effectively implement the principles of integrated water resources management (IWRM).
Key points of the chair s summary
Shankar Sharma, vice-chairman of National Planning Commission (NPC) of Nepal, recently admitted that the country would be unable to achieve the Millennium Development Goals if the Maoist activity
<p>With release of genetically modified Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation Bangladesh is first country in the South Asia to cultivate any genetically modified food crop. Read more in this March 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bangladesh.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
<p>The overall maternal mortality rate dropped by 34.3 per cent over a 20-year period -- from 339 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2000 to 223 maternal deaths in 2020, according to this report by the World Health Organization and other UN agencies.</p>
<p><span id="itro1">This new report on the state of food insecurity in urban India by MSSRF shows that the period of economic reforms and high GDP growth has not seen an unambiguous improvement in urban food security across all States.</span></p>
www.first8.org At this year's UN Commission of Sustainable Development's meet in New York (April 19 to 30), progress on millennium development goals (MDGs) related to clean drinking water,
ANNA KAJUMULO TIBAIJUKA, executive director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme speaks to NIDHI JAMWAL
Priorities, post WSSD
The World Bank has invited 23 countries to join the Education For All Fast Track aimed at helping developing countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of providing every child with primary
The rich countries need to provide an additional aid to the tune of $40-60 billion in order to achieve the objectives set by Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for human development, in the
Rejects key clauses on debt, trade, climate change
The Stockholm Water Week brought together a wealth of ideas
The 13th session of the un Commission for Sustainable Development (csd), which steers the development agenda agreed upon at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992, was a damp squib. The 11-day meet
World Bank and IMF oppose increasing debt relief to Africa
The Millennium City’s woes include depleting groundwater table, pollution and poor waste management Gurugram, or the Millennium City as it often called, may soon become “a living hell” if it doesn’t
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has called for efforts by both developing and developed nations to intensify efforts for developing a low carbon economy in the backdrop of the Copenhagen climate change summit. Developing countries such as India have a responsibility to their citizens to grow rapidly to meet and exceed the UN Millennium goals.
<p>Brick makers in Bangladesh using conventional methods blamed for polluting the air, now seek two more years to be ready for conversion into environment-friendly technologies though they have already enjoyed around three years for this. Read more in this first Monthly Bangladesh State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. September 2013 Edition is out! Download, Read and Share. Happy reading!</p>
<p>Large-scale promotion of small scale decentralized renewable energy technologies to achieve a part of millennium development goal remained a great challenge until recently.
The UN millennium development goal of achieving the 15% poverty rate by 2015 has already been realised, a former World Bank official has claimed even as the bank pointed out that the world was a long
