Jaipur: State’s health department is among five in South-East Asia region of WHO to receive award for its accomplishment in the area of tobacco control. It is the only government body in the country which will be awarded for its tobacco free initiatives (TFIs) on the World Tobacco Day (May …
A researcher from Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics has identified the virus that causes the sterility mosaic disease in pigeonpea (commonly known as tur dal). The finding is significant, as the disease leads to an annual loss of US $300 million in India and Nepal, which account …
Wangari Maathai, Kenya's popular environmental activist who is also the country's deputy environment minister, has won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting poverty by trying to save Africa's shrinking forests. She is the first African woman to be honoured thus. This is also the first Nobel prize given to an …
My initiation into environmental advocacy began in the mid-1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal was involved in a fight against the Karnataka government's proposal to give forest land to Harihar Polyfibres - the Birla-owned pulp mill based in the state - to grow its raw material. The matter was in the …
function graph1() { var popurl="files/images/20041015/32-graph1.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=700,height=270,scrollbars=yes") } Green Rating helps to benchmark performance and when we return to each sector, the most interesting task is to track how the sector has changed
The Indian pulp and paper industry stands indicted for the wide-scale decimation of forests in the country. Till the mid-1980s industry got wood at throwaway prices from vast forest lands owned by the government. As forests were denuded in their vicinity, their footprint increased; companies went far and further to …
function graph() { var popurl="files/images/20041015/38-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=700,height=400,scrollbars=yes") } Water is the Achilles heel of the Indian pulp and paper industry. Most of its challenges end up with its inefficient use of water. There is no doubt that the world over, this industry is the largest industrial user of water. But globally, …
As yet, people living near paper mills have not been at peace with their polluting neighbour. Not only are there conflicts, but clearly the local community in many cases has been able to assert its demand for the industry to clean up or close down. It would not be wrong …
The pulp and paper industry is an environmentalist' nightmare. It can easily eat away a nation's forest. It uses huge amounts of equally precious water to
GRP is not a mere rating. It is a tool to push for improvement. A way to leverage change. Thus the rating must reflect the current state of the industrial sector, and point to improvements. So it is that in each rating, the project reviews the entire sector
GRP has a time series data of 8 years for the Indian pulp and paper sector. It is a powerful indicator of visible changes, not just in companies which have improved but also in those that have slipped. The database also allows GRP to tellingly forecast what the management has …
active involvement of local people in promoting eco-tourism has won international acclaim for Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve in Uttaranchal's Chamoli district. The project has bagged the second runners up position in the destination category of the Cond
Panda Nominations Five films from India have reached the final nomination list of the Panda Awards, "the world's most prestigious accolade for films on the natural world'. The awards will be given at the Wildscreen Festival, uk, in October 2004.
www.seedawards.org The Seed Awards are meant to foster the idea that partnerships benefit communities. The bi-ennial awards (five to ten) will be given for innovative proposals. Winners will be supported to transform the proposal into an initiative. In this way, the awards hope to promote sustainable practices. The first set …
A comprehensive Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approach for assessing the environmental performance of pulp and paper industry in various phases of the life cycle ranging from raw material sourcing to pollution generation and control.
Vatavaran 2003, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi On November 20, 2003 the curtain fell on Vatavaran 2003, a festival of films devoted exclusively to environmental issues. Organised by New Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies (cms) and supported by the Union ministry of environment and forests, the 3-day jumboree saw 154 …
