Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
India needs a radical rethink on its existing system of healthcare for the needy Poverty attracts two kinds of policy interventions. The first hopes to eradicate it and the second wants to keep the poor alive. In India, our prime effort has always been, right from the days of antodaya, …
If a carbon tax is to be devised at all, it should wait for the current confabulations at the multilateral level to lay down acceptable ground rules. The Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, has done well to counter the threat from the US and Europe …
In the last decade, rising and volatile energy prices coupled with increasing concern about climate change and growing support for action on energy and environmental issues has driven a surge of corporate environmental commitments. Energy efficiency has emerged as a key component of these commitments. Leading firms that give greater …
This study evaluates potentially viable strategies to reduce transportation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The study was mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act. The Act directed the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), in coordination with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and consultation with the U.S. Global Change Research …
The social cost of carbon (SCC), defined as the estimated price of the damages caused by each additional ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere, is the volume dial on government regulations affecting greenhouse gases: The higher the SCC is set, the more stringent the regulatory standards. This …
National security policymakers point to climate change as a key trend that will shape the current and future global security environment, but do not always have the scientific information they need to plan and prepare for the security challenges it may cause. This report explores the gap between the science …
This report presents 24 indicators, each describing trends related to the causes and effects of climate change. The report focuses primarily on the United States, but in some cases global trends are presented to provide context or a basis for comparison. It aims to collect data and generate analyses to: …
This report highlights the important role of the federal government in reducing the vulnerability and strengthening the resiliency of economy and natural resources in the face of these changes. In addition to managing a significant amount of land and infrastructure that will be affected by climate change, the federal government …
Siddharth Varadarajan New Delhi:Pilloried in India for crafting a nuclear liability bill that his critics say is aimed at pleasing American companies, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is now facing criticism from an unlikely source: the U.S. nuclear industry. The debate in India is over the liability limits the bill will …
President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday plans for a broad expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling in an effort to win Republican support for new proposals to fight climate change. Obama, a Democrat, said his administration would consider new areas for drilling in the mid and south Atlantic and …
Growing estimates of natural gas resources, including a new category of ?unconventional? gas, suggest that accessible supplies of this least carbon-intensive of the fossil fuels may be far more abundant than previously assumed. This unexpected development creates opportunities for deploying natural gas in a variety of sectors
The planet is a long way from dying of thirst. "It's inevitable that we'll solve our water problems," says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a nonpartisan environmental think tank. "The trick is how much pain we can avoid on that path to where we want to be." As …
Worldwide, cities and townships are facing many complex wastewater treatment issues. Although centralized sewers are seen as a preferred solution to wastewater problems, areas with centralized sewers discharding to surface waters, have been identified as source of many pollution problems. Lack of sufficient, even basic treatment is a risk to …
The agricultural sector can help to address, mitigate, and adapt to climate change. Agriculture has significant potential to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store (or sequester) carbon while at the same time reducing its GHG emissions
The draft article is the introduction to a symposium issue of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, on climate change and human rights. Global warming is expected to contribute to many human wrongs: disease, malnutrition, flooding of coastal communities. But does every human wrong violate a human right? …
