This brochure offers decision-makers in the real estate and energy industries, as well as urban and municipal developers, a broad overview of the topics of decentralised energy generation and supply, and raises awareness of the goal of decarbonisation by 2050 at the latest. The advancing digitalization in the construction and …
The Indian delegation to CITES strongly opposed the list- ing of the African elephant in Appendix II and reopening trade in ivory, perceived as a threat to the Asian elephant. Ashok Kumar of the Wildlife Protection Society of India, who was part of the Indian delegation, says that carvers in …
Almost 80 per cent of the elephant range in Africa lies outside protected areas. Human-elephant conflicts are high, particularly in southern and central Africa where both the populations are high (see graph: Competing for resources). The conflicts are serious but more localised in areas where there are a smaller number …
Almost the same controversies surrounded the proposal from South Africa to lift the ban in exports of the Southern White Rhinoceros, which was also rejected by the cop-10. South Africa, home to the largest population of White Rhinos, wanted a zero quota initiaAy, until a trading system with appropriate controls …
THE Varanasi-based NGO, Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF), has submitted an alternative to the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) to the Centre in early May. The group has approached the Ganga Project Directorate for its plan to be included in the GAP phase II. The plan envisages the construction of a 'gravity …
BIG farmers and project officials have,- cornered most of the benefits of the watershed development programme (WDP) in Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh. Undertaken during 1995-96 in 270 micro watersheds spanning 219 villages, the WDP was to be implemented under new guidelines issued by the Central government in 1994, which …
Researchers in Gujarat have harnessed the energy of bullocks to generate electricity for 24 villages in Vadodara district. Under this innovative method, four bullocks are yoked on to a shaft, which rotates as they move around it. The shaft is connected to a gear-box which turns underground shafts, overground freewheels …
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------D RAJASEKHAR, BANGALORE The Agricultural Development and Training Society (ADATS), has been leading more than 14,000 coolies (landless labourers and poor farmers) towards sustainable development in 691 villages of Bagepalli taluk (province) in Kolar district of Karnataka since 1977. The society aims at building up a mass agricultural labourer …
SEVERAL Indian voluntary organisations held a demonstration in front of the ministry of environment and forests (MEF) on April 17, demanding that India ratify the Basel convention and stop all imports of hazardous wastes. Greenpeace activists from at least seven countries were present at the demonstration. They later met the …
A M SHARAFUDDIN BANGLADESH mohammed Zafar Mian passed his senior school certificate (ssc) examination last year and wants to be a banker after finishing his higher studies. The other members of his family are, however, illiterate. Zafar has four brothers and three sisters. Two of his brothers are rickshaw-pullers and …
too little and too late. Pushed by scathing reports from international ngos like the uk-based Environment Investigation Agency (eia) on the pathetic scenario in India's wildlife sector, the Indian Board of Wildlife (ibw) finally met on March 13 in New Delhi, after remaining invisible for nine long years. Prime Minister …
the chlorine gas leak in January this year has spurred action among various ngos in Lahore, demanding more protection for the victims. They have founded the Action Committee for the Gas Affectees of Baja Lines. The committee comprises representatives of ngos (Shirkat Gah, World Wide Fund for Nature, Aurat Foundation, …
The 144-MW Kali Gandaki :' (KGA) hydroelectricity project in Syngja, Nepal, was recently inaugurated. Various national NGOs, in collaboration with their international counterparts, have been opposing the construction of the project arguing that the KGA would cause environmental imbalance, adversely affect biodiversity and cause displacement and soil erosion.
THE proposals for a global forest treaty were strongly opposed by southern NGOs, including the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi, at the fourth meeting of the Inter-governmental Panel on Forests (IPF-4) comprising more than 70 nations, which ended in New York on February 21. The IPF was …
this book is about transnational environmental activist groups. It describes their politics and analyses the strategies they employ to bring the environment to the forefront. The focal point of the book is that the efforts of transnational environmental activist groups at lobbying with states is but one approach to environmental …
For those who choose to remain close to concerns over the environment each day of the year, the calendar designed by Bangalore-based artist-environmentalist C F John, may be the right choice. John is a founder-member of Visthar (an environmental NGO in Bangalore), and has designed and produced campaign material for …
THE emerging rule today ironically seems to be that those who make a mess, will be paid to clean it up rather than obligated to undo the harm they have caused and cease committing further damage. International aid agencies look towards the timber industry to help preserve forests; the us …
The GEF (Global Environmental Facility) operates under the framework of conventions and rules established by a governing council consisting of 32 country representatives
terming all World Bank ( wb ) projects as being basically destructive, some of India's most important non-governmental organisations ( ngo s) boycotted a wb president- ngo meet in Delhi, unequivocally demanding that wb quit India. They stated that India was capable of raising funds required for development, and there …
the ecodevelopment project that is proposed for seven protected areas in India in the pilot phase has been facing severe criticism from all quarters. This is being funded jointly by the World Bank (wb) (us $28 million in form of loans) and the Global Environment Facility (us $20 million in …
