Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Daulat Ram Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 09/04/2025. The application has been filed by the applicant alleging that a license agreement was executed on March 2, 2015 between the Governor of Rajasthan acting on …
Chairperson of the Climate Institute, Washington, DC " This is a need for tough measures to check artifically induced climate change" • The biggest emitters must make the biggest reductions to induce others to follow suit. • Governments must take difficult decisions. They must use economic incentives (to reduce emission …
- The GEF should be at the cutting edge, being "innovative, flexible and responsive' to the needs of the recipients - Country-driven efforts: - Based on national priorities - Greater outreach with targets, better consultations with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and local communities - Promote country ownership of GEF projects - …
nobody dares to say that they do not care about the environment any longer, says Steinar Lem, head of information at Future In Our Hands, one of Scandinavia's influential ngo s. He relishes the fact that environmental issues are now firmly placed on the political agenda. The sad point is, …
the early 1990s saw the rise of non-government organisations (ngos) to the level of a political actor in the international system. This was linked to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Develop-ment (unced) at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. But with neo-liberal globalisation taking centre stage, the process initiated …
the Rio Earth summit is rapidly fading into our memories as an environmental event. The commitments made at Rio, the discussions of an Earth Charter in Rio +5 followed by the 19th United Nations General Assembly Special Session ( ungass ) for the overall review of the implementation of Agenda …
Mistrust, suspicion, North-South divide and a lack of commitment and political will on the part of the nation states to move towards a sustainable future were the key features of the second Earth Summit. Settling for the minimum possible... was the spirit of the negotiating nations. Further, entrenched economic national …
•A review of the five years since Rio, Earth Summit II showed collective irresponsibility by nation states for the earth's future •The special session of the UN General Assembly was marred by nations wrangling to settle for the minimum possible •The biggest disappointment was the decision on climate change. The …
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Britain: "The biggest responsibility falls on the countries with the biggest emmissions' Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, 'Global environment protection and sustainable development need a clearly audible voice at the UN... this could lead to a creation of a global umbrella …
The G-7, after the Denver meet (weekend before UNGASS), issued a statement that made it clear that they were not willing to accept their responsibilities, but would blame the developing world for inaction on global warming.
The Indian delegation had gone unprepared to UNGASS and found themselves at sea over India's position on the forest convention. As negotiations entered into the final phase, The Netherlands co-chair on the forest session had put forward a partisan proposal which effectively included the forest convention into the text. The …
The Indian delegation was led by the minister of environment and forests (MEF) Saifuddin Soz. That the Indians had decided to keep a low profile was apparent as the negotiations progressed. The Indian delegation decided to keep silent at the time of important discussions. For most of the times, it …
• By 2002, the formulation and elaboration of national strategies for sustainable development should be completed, and efforts by developing countries to effectively implement national strategies should be supported. • Freshwater : It identifies an urgent need to formulate and implement policies and programmes for integrated watershed management; strengthen regional …
with no clear resolution on the contentious issue of forest convention in the final meeting of intergovernmental panel of forests ( ipf ) which met in February 1997, it was clear that the Rio + 5 summit of the world leaders would have to confront this proposal, pushed by a …
Even as we move towards the 21st Century the future appears bleak. Only the Earth knows what transpired at the Denver meeting but in the light of hindsight it is becoming all too evident that the North, the Europeans and their American cousins, went in with a coordinated stand to …
In June 1997, the world will complete five years since the Rio Conference - the largest ever gathering of world leaders that was billed as the 'last chance to save the Earth'. Now, the General Assembly of the United Nations, meeting in June five years after, will find that the …
"Following the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992, there had been a worldwide interest in developing and promoting 'green technologies'. After that. the International Business Council's book, Changing Course, came up with the theory that good ecology is also good business. All this has generated much interest …
I the only one who remembers the Rio Summit? Am I the Only one who remembers all the noise that American NGOSI environmentalists and internationalists were making about George Bush dillydallying on whether or not to attend the b Sageek (though, in the end he did)? Am I the only …
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A PROGRAMME called Local Initiatives for the Environment -- LIFE -- is using novel approaches to finance and implement environmental projects. A product of Agenda 21, the international agreement drawn up during the Earth Summit (1992) in Rio de Janeiro, LIFE is "aiming to be more of an initiative catalyst …
After an initial whimper of protest, Southern governments accepted the partly reformed global environmental facility (GEF) as an interim mechanism to fund the implementation of decisions at the UN Conference on Environment and Development. But loud dissent was heard from the NGO camp when the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute recently proposed …
