In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global …
Elected officials and managers are both integral players in natural resource management. Politicians and technicians recognize that interdependencies exist, but finding organizational models that effectively integrate the distinct political and technical aspects of these endeavors remains a challenge. In Brazil
In low and middle-income countries, the informal sector carries out a significant proportion of recycling activity in solid waste management (SWM). For the purposes of this study, the term
Consumer demand for the premier neotropical luxury timber, big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), has driven boom-and-bust logging cycles for centuries, depleting local and regional supplies from Mexico to Bolivia. We revise the standard historic range map for mahogany in South America and estimate the extent to which commercial stocks have been …
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, …
Washington: India and China rank 123rd and 121st in pollution control respectively, reflecting the strain rapid economic growth imposes on the environment, according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). However, among the other newly industrialised nations Brazil and Russia rank 62nd and 69th, suggesting that the level of development …
New Delhi: Even as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been criticised over its claim on the melting of Himalayan glaciers, Environment Ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China came out in its support stating that
This document contains the Joint Statement issued at the conclusion of Second Meeting of Ministers of BASIC Group at New Delhi. The Ministers of the four BASIC Group countries - China, Brazil, South Africa and India - met in New Delhi on 24th January 2010 and called for an early …
While Brazil Has Cut Ethanol Blending On Short Supply, India Is Implementing The Plan Here, Raising Many Questions Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI YOUR evening drink could become more expensive thanks to the government
New Delhi: With Copenhagen Accord setting a January 31 deadline for the nations to specify 2020 emission targets and other steps, India will hold discussion with other BASIC group members comprising China, South Africa and Brazil in New Delhi to discuss their climate strategy.
With the Copenhagen Accord setting a January 31 deadline for the nations to specify 2020 emission targets and other steps, India will hold discussion with other Basic group members comprising China, South Africa and Brazil in New Delhi to discuss their climate strategy. "I have invited my counterparts in the …
For a species that is facing the gravest threat to its sole habitat we seem to be pretty casual about saving it as the recently concluded Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen demonstrated. You could forgive the dinosaurs--they didn't know that a meteorite was going to clobber the earth leading to …
Angra Dos Reis (Brazil): Rescuers pulled more bodies from an avalanche of thick mud and rock that buried a luxury Brazilian hotel filled with New Year's revellers, as the death toll from heavy rains in the south of the country rose to 63. Twenty-eight people were killed and six persons …
Ananth Krishnan Only two weeks have passed after the Copenhagen climate summit ended with a compromise agreement, but officials are already laying the groundwork for the next round of negotiations. A top Chinese official has called for a meeting of China, India, Brazil and South Africa
