This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
THE Colombian elite, like their counterparts in India, are proud of the special relationship their government has forged with the United States. When most other countries in the region are railing against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S., the Colombian government is looking forward to its ratification. It …
India has approached the world trade organization (WTO) to settle a dispute with the European Union (EU). In the past year, the EU seized 16 Indian drug consignments in transit to Peru, Brazil, Columbia and Nigeria at Frankfurt and Amsterdam ports.
When Peter Kaestner is not holding visa interviews at the US Embassy in Delhi, he prefers nurturing his ambition of spotting all the 10,000 known bird species. He has spotted 8,200 so far. He has also discovered a new bird in Colombia which is named after him. Arnab Pratim Dutta …
The links between human rights and biodiversity and natural resource conservation are many and complex. The conservation community is being challenged to take stronger measures to respect human rights and is taking opportunities to further their realisation.
The Amazon River accounts for one-fifth of the world's freshwater flow, and its floodplain is home to 60% of the world's remaining tropical rainforests. The basin's diverse ecosystems support an unparalleled array of biodiversity, and provide home to tens of thousands of indigenous people. Yet the Brazilian government sees the …
The Italian restaurant backed by celebrities Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich is one of several shunning bottled water, along with the city of San Francisco and New York state. "The argument for local water is compelling and obvious," said Bastianich, who is phasing out bottled water across his restaurant empire, …
FOR more than 20 years Carmen Lasso has scrabbled a living of sorts for herself and her eight children by scavenging at a rubbish dump in Cali, Colombia
Facing a lake covered by low-lying clouds, spiritual leader Arwa Viku burns leaves hoping that the smoke will carry his message, his voice mixing with the sound of waves lapping the grass-lined shore. Here in mountainous central Colombia, Viku's Arhuaca Indian tribe is concerned that the country's water supply is …
The International Fuel Quality Center recently released a ranking of the top 100 countries based on the lowest benzene limits in gasoline. Colombia was at the top of the ranking with the lowest limit, followed by Canada and Luxembourg.
The largest extant snakes live in the tropics of South America and southeastAsia where high temperatures facilitate the evolution of large body sizes among air-breathing animals whose body temperatures are dependant on ambient environmental temperatures (poikilothermy. Very little is known about ancient tropical terrestrial ecosystems, limiting our understanding of the …
The discovery in Colombia of a giant species of fossil snake is news in itself. But a wider, more controversial inference to be drawn is that tropical climate in the past was not buffered from global warming.
Sandra Laville Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the U.K., a conference of senior police officers was told on Tuesday. Francisco Santos Calderon, the Vice-President of Colombia, appealed to British users of the drug to consider the impact on the environment. He …
Eight bodies have been recovered from the wreckage left by a mudslide that swept away part of an upscale neighbourhood in the Colombian city of Medellin, authorities said on Monday. Four other victims have not been recovered, emergency officials said. The mudslide in El Poblado, Medellin's most affluent district, swept …
A 12-year-old boy was killed and 15 people were missing and feared dead after a mudslide destroyed part of an upscale neighbourhood in the Colombian city of Medellin on Sunday, local authorities said. The northern industrial city, like much of the rest of Colombia, has been hit by seasonal rains …
This paper explores two propositions regarding international river basins: cooperative development of international rivers offers unique economic advantages over unilateral development; and benefit sharing is a necessary condition for facilitating this cooperation. Despite the intuitive appeal of benefit sharing, clear benchmarks and good practices in structuring agreeable benefit sharing arrangements …
New Delhi Signs Pact With Bogota To Facilitate ONGC, OIL, Gail & RIL To Acquire Oil & Gas Assets Our Bureau NEW DELHI INDIA has strengthened its ties with the fifth-largest oil-producing country, Colombia, by signing an agreement that would facilitate public sector ONGC and Oil India (OIL) to acquire …
