The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
How do we ensure good conversion of old vehicles and the prospects of getting dedicated vehicles - a presentation by Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Limited at experience sharing dialogue on “Improving quality and performance of natural gas vehicle programme in South Asia” on 20 January 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Read …
BRTA’S Activities on Natural Gas Vehicles and the Prospects of Getting Dedicated Vehicles - a presentation by Sk. Md. Mahbub-E-Rabbani, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) at experience sharing dialogue on “Improving quality and performance of natural gas vehicle programme in South Asia” on 20 January 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Read …
Safety and Regulatory regime of CNG driven vehicles: challenges - a presentation by Md. Anisur Rahman PEng, Dhaka Transport Coordination Board (DTCB) at experience sharing dialogue on “Improving quality and performance of natural gas vehicle programme in South Asia” on 20 January 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Read the presentation: http://www.cseindia.org/userfiles/safety_regulations_NGVs.pdf
According to this independent scientific study by Lou Gallagher, the safety claims made for Bt brinjal, are not supported by existing data and says that its consumption could result in adverse health effects. Plans for India’s first genetically engineered crop for human consumption have triggered a safety report that reveals …
Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and Federation of Community Forest Users’ Nepal (FECOFUN) are jointly implementing the project “Design and setting up of a governance and payment system for Nepal’s Community Forest Management under Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest …
The study from March 2011 to February 2012 in the Tanguar haor, Sunamgonj, Bangladesh found three habitat types of vegetation composition as upland, emergent and aquatic which included submerged plants (23), free floating plants (12), rooted floating plants (21), sedges and meadows (35), reed swamp (7), freshwater swamp forest (9), …
Floating gardening, a form of hydroponics using aquatic plants as the medium, is a traditional cultivation system in southern Bangladesh practiced for year-rouund seedling and vegetable production. The livelihoods of marginalized people of the wetlands in North-eastern Bangladesh are often constrained by 7-8 months water stagnation due to floods. A …
This research aims to develop a model that may be used to determine the effective adaptive measures to implement in a system affected by climate change.
Red Panda Network, Nepal (RPN) has initiated a conservation project for Red Panda in eastern Nepal along the Singhalila Range in partnership with local organizations and community-based organizations.
Bangladesh is located between the Himalayas in the north and the Bay of Bengal in the south. These two settings regulate and modify the climate of this region. Bangladesh is one of the countries which are suffering from the adverse impacts of climate change.
In many occasions severe water leakage problems are faced in shotcrete lined or unlined water tunnels that not only reduce stability of the rock mass but also result in loss of valuable water in conveying tunnel systems. Such leakage causes safety risks and increases the potential for huge economic loss …
Large-scale promotion of small scale decentralized renewable energy technologies to achieve a part of millennium development goal remained a great challenge until recently. However, a properly implementation of a public private partnership applied in biogas sector in Nepal has shown that scaling up of small scale renewable energy technologies is …
Pakistan is subjected to rapid water shortage due to different social and environmental problems. Moreoer, the drinking water is being contaminated at an alarming rate that is mostly due to the discharge of untreated domestic and industrial effluent and agricultural run-off. Therefore, this study was designed to evaluate the water …
Ungauged basins are challenges for hydrological study, the key discipline to analyse for planning and the operation of water resources projects. Several river basins have no hydrologic measurements where there is feasibility of promising water resources schemes. This study deals with the use of the Hydrologiska Byrans avdeling for Vattenbalans …
The disposal of untreated industrial effluent into receiving water courses has become a major environmental challenge being faced by most of the developing countries. In Pakistan numerous industrial units that dispose their effluent directly into receiving stream without any treatment. This study was, therefor designed to assess the wastewater characteristics …
On September 20, 1996 an overwhelming 96.5% of the members present at the Joint Session of the Nepalese Parliament hurriedly ratified the Mahakali Treaty to fulfill the requirements of the Article 126 of the 1990 Constitution of Nepal.
The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) report provides the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market. Taking into account macroeconomic trends and forecasts, the GET includes a …
The purpose of this paper is to reopen policy debates on the role of agricultural mechanisation in rural development. The paper examines very different and diverse patterns of agricultural mechanisation in some South Asian countries over the last 30 years. In Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka the process was facilitated …
