The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
Throughout the developing world, many water distribution systems are unreliable. As a result, it becomes necessary for each household to store its own water as a hedge against this uncertainty. Since arrivals of water are not synchronized across households, serious distributional inefficiencies arise. We develop a model describing the optimal …
In December 2009, an important United Nations climate change conference (COP15) took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. This conference resulted in the Copenhagen Accord, which forms the basis for further negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, later this year. As part of the Copenhagen Accord, industrialised countries have submitted greenhouse gas emission reduction …
THE BASIC group is veering around to the possibility that a legally binding global agreement to limit climate change was unlikely to be finalised by the Cancun conference to be held later this year. Environment ministers of the Brazil, South Africa, India and China met in Cape Town on Sunday …
MUMBAI: Maharashtra has outnumbered Britain and Mexico in receiving queries under the RTI Act, the State Information Commission has said. "In 2009, Maharashtra received 4, 40,728 queries of RTI while Britain received 90,000 and Mexico 1, 25,000 under a similar legislation," the Commission said in a recent report. The state …
UN climate talks held in Bonn, Germany over the weekend produced only modest progress in the negotiations toward a global deal to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. The sluggish pace of the weekend discussions suggests that 2010 may turn out to be a painfully slow year for the multilateral climate …
Strong aftershocks jolted cities along the border between the United States and Mexico early on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least two people in northern Mexico. Governor of Baja California Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan, Mexico, where the 7.2-magnitude quake struck on Sunday afternoon, said he had …
Narayan Lakshman Washington DC: An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter Scale rocked large tracts of the Western coast of Mexico and the United States 3:40 p.m. (local time) on Easter Sunday. The quake struck around 62 km from Mexicali, near the U.S.-Mexico border and was felt hundred of km …
In the international climate negotiations preceding Copenhagen in December 2009, nationally appropriate mitigation actions, (NAMAs) were used as the solution of many open issues and with very different interpretations of what the term actually stands for. The negotiations have so far failed to define what NAMAs actually are. Views also …
In the international climate negotiations preceding Copenhagen in December 2009, nationally appropriate mitigation actions, (NAMAs) were used as the solution of many open issues and with very different interpretations of what the term actually stands for. The negotiations have so far failed to define what NAMAs actually are. Views also …
Obesity has recently emerged as a major global health problem. According to World Health Organization estimates, ≈1.6 billion adults worldwide were overweight (body mass index [BMI] ≥25 kg/m2) and at least 400 million were obese (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) in 2005, numbers that are expected to reach 2.3 billion and 700 …
“For humans, the principal source of selenium is meat, and in Mexico it is not included in daily meals, as a consequence of poverty. Moreover, abattoir animals are deficient in this element. For this reason our research team considers that Mexican people probably suffer from a chronic Se deficiency,” said …
WITH a concerted effort to question the intensity of climate impact, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman R K Pachauri talks about the high cost of undermining the findings of science. How do you, as IPCC chief, view the Copenhagen Accord? Status of accord is not clear. There is …
Although seafood is the most highly traded food internationally, it is an often overlooked component of global food security. It provides essential local food, livelihoods, and export earnings. Although global capture fisheries production is unlikely to increase, aquaculture is growing considerably. Sustaining seafood's contributions to food security hinges on the …
This IEA paper focuses on opportunities and risks presented by second-generation biofuels technologies in eight case study countries - Brazil, Cameroon, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania and Thailand. This paper focuses on opportunities and risks presented by second-generation biofuels technologies in eight case study countries: Brazil, Cameroon, China, India, …
