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 …
This new UN report presents challenges of unregulated wastewater discharged into rivers and seas. Calls for transforming wastewater into clean and economically attractive resource & details strategies that focus on sustainable water management. The world is facing a global water quality crisis. Continuing population growth and urbanisation, rapid industralisation, and …
In the face of persistent rural poverty, an incomplete agrarian transition, the predominance of small and marginal farms and a growing feminisation of agriculture, this paper argues for a new institutional approach to poverty reduction, agricultural revival and social empowerment. It makes a strong case for a group approach to …
About 120 km southeast of Imphal, on the India-Myanmar border, the first steps are being taken towards giving shape to the Indian part of a grand Asian dream
South Asian nations including India would not be able to eradicate poverty and ensure minimum education for all by 2015, according to a new poverty index to be released next week in Delhi. The Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) 2009 has found that South Asia will get 80 points on the …
Micro health insurance schemes in Bangladesh face a number of challenges. They include financial and institutional sustainability. Apart from challenges the authors assess the importance, evolution and models of micro health insurance in the country.
This paper focuses on the economic impact of the global crisis on South Asia and the policy measures pursued.It analyzes the effectiveness of these policies and raises the critical longerterm issues, which to date have largely been ignored. It argues that the global crisis has to be analyzed against the …
Smog digest is a news service on vehicular pollution based on news clippings selected from leading Indian newspapers and newsmagazine. It also highlights the key developments from South Asian countries. The month witnessed lots of action and developments on the vehicular pollution front in India.
New Delhi, Jan. 20: Air pollution from eastern and southern Asia, possibly from China and India, may be causing spikes in atmospheric ozone levels over North America, a study has suggested. The study by a team of international scientists has shown for the first time that tropospheric ozone, 3km to …
The elevation of the Tibetan plateau is thought to cause its surface to serve as a heat source that drives the South Asian summer monsoon, potentially coupling uplift of the plateau to climate changes on geologic timescales. Here, however, an atmospheric model is used to show that flattening of the …
Received wisdom about the main driver of the South Asian monsoon comes into question with a report that tests the idea that the Himalayas, not the Tibetan plateau, are the essential topographic ingredient.
Ahmedabad: Its yet another milestone for BRTS-Ahmedabad. Its being adjudged the best sustainable transport system in the world. This is the first time that Sustainable Transport Award is given to a city in South Asia. Ahmedabad BRTS happened to be the only mass transit system from India that was nominated …
We have more roads and flyovers than ever before to address our transportation worries. But, unfortunately, roads in cities like Delhi are chock-a-block with bumper-to-bumper traffic, due to the huge ratio of cars as compared to buses. It is time to set new terms of action. Make the city more …
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Indus River basin in South Asia. The Indus Basin covers 3 countries, rises in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in China. Irrigated agriculture in the Basin is extensive with …
Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth explores both the short- and medium-term impacts of the financial crisis on developing countries. Although global growth has resumed, the recovery is fragile, and unless business and consumer demand strengthen, the world economy could slow down again. Even if, as appears likely, …
This report includes 14 case studies from different countries around the world. They provide compelling evidence of the roles that ecosystems play in climate change adaptation through protecting the natural resource base, providing alternative livelihood options, and maintaining resilience to future climate change. BirdLife International
More than one billion people in the world are employed in agriculture, and most work in extremely precarious conditions. They cannot guarantee the food security of their families. Improvements will come only if these workers are better organised and better able to engage in collective bargaining. The IUF is working …
This report presents an overview of recent developments in the consumption and production of bioenergy. Examines main issues, the possible economic implications of these developments and assesses their potential impact on land use and environment, especially with respect to forests. The report examines both solid biomass and liquid biofuels, identifying …
This book examines the emerging environmental stresses on coastal areas of the Indian Ocean and the resulting challenges confronting coastal planners and decision makers in a warming world. It assesses the prospective risks to coastal ecosystems and infrastructure, evaluate the opportunities and obstacles for technological innovations and adaptation strategies, and …
