This paper presents a status report of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) on two crucial development parameters—inequality and poverty—that have a significant bearing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; especially SDG-1 and SDG-10). The paper tracks the origins and movements of absolute and relative poverty, …
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV The Russian space agency will invite Nasa, the European Space Agency, the Chinese space agency and others to join the project once it is finalised ussia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with earth, …
In the race to grab their share of the emerging nuclear market of India, Russia and France have established a substantial lead over the US. Ironical, isn
As scientists worry about the prospect of a catastrophic flood from Lake Sarez in the Pamir Mountains, agricultural communities on the plains below face a very different problem. This arid region in Central Asia has inherited a set of resource blunders made decades ago by the Soviet Union. And since …
India and Russia signed key agreements on the civilian use of nuclear power and military and technical cooperation here on Monday, marking a strong consolidation of traditional ties between the two countries. Russia put its weight behind India
This paper explores possible future trends of GHG emissions of Russia which are helpful for formulating a future mitigation commitment of the country. For this, the paper provides a rough forecast of national CO2 emissions associated with fuel combustion in 2010 - 2020. The main argument of the paper is …
This paper explores possible future trends of GHG emissions of Russia which are helpful for formulating a future mitigation commitment of the country. For this, the paper provides a rough forecast of national CO2 emissions associated with fuel combustion in 2010 - 2020. The main argument of the paper is …
For hundreds of thousands of people in south-east Europe, the true meaning of energy security was brought home at the beginning of the year, during Russia
This report provides background information that is relevant to assessing the ambition levels of the major countries involved in the current international climate negotiations. The EU
This report presents an analysis of, and discussion on, the environmental, financial and negotiation consequences of various strategies of dealing with surplus emission allowances or assigned amount units (AAUs), often known as
Vladimir Radyuhin MOSCOW: As weather modifying becomes increasingly fashionable, Moscow is joining Beijing in trying to tamper with snowfalls. Two weeks after Beijing successfully tested the technique of causing tonnes of snow to fall on the drought-hit city by bombarding clouds with silver iodine, Moscow authorities are embarking on a …
Unsatisfied with merely halting environmental destruction, some conservationists are trying to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. Emma Marris travels back in time with the rewilders.
India balances competing interests in awarding nuclear projects When India broke out of the 34-year nuclear winter in 2008, everybody knew that New Delhi would be intensely wooed by countries that sought to gain from the opening up of the country's civilian nuclear trade. Though India had set a modest …
Paris: If being locked up in a cramped capsule for 17 months with five strangers is your idea of a good time, the European Space Agency (ESA) may have a job for you. ESA is looking for a few good men and women
A rising population will make it harder for the United States to make 2050 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions than for Russia and some other rich nations with shrinking populations, a Reuters survey showed. Leaders of the Group of Eight agreed in July to cut developed nations' emissions by 80 …
BHUBANESWAR: While uncertainty looms large over the Rs 1,150-crore titanium project, an Indo-Russian joint venture, after the Russian partners threatened to quit the project, the Government is making all-out efforts to bring the warring factions to a negotiating table. The proposed titanium project came under cloud when the Russian partners …
If you thought climate change affects all the nations in the world, you are mistaken. Finland, Russia and others are benefitting from climate change as the climate becomes warmer. This was one issue which came up during the discussion following a lecture by Prof Mike Hulme, professor of Climate Change, …
