The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The fifth high-level ministerial meeting of the United Nation's Forum on Forests (UNFF-5), which ended in New York on May 27, 2005, failed to agree to a set of reforms to accelerate the ailing process of promoting conservation and sustainable development of forests. UNFF-5 couldn't agree on even a declaration. …
The purpose of this article is to describe and evaluate the ecotourism project at the Periyar Tiger Reserve (Thekkady), in Kerala, India. The Ministry of Environment has undertaken to promote local community participation in forest management, through the
With each mega event held, it appears the collective will of the international community to address sustainable development issues is waning. The recent International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (sids) is a case in point. The …
Watching the iridescent roller bird flash in the sun and take off, one might wonder where it is going. What would it encounter on its leisurely journey as it sweeps across ridges of rugged mountains, dips down into fields of paddy, past village ponds and thatched huts, resuming through inaccessible …
Another serious administrative crisis has come to the fore in Afghanistan with the resignation of the country's planning minister Ramazan Bashardoost on December 13, 2004, after the government refused to wrap up 2,000 national and international aid agencies working in the country. A week ago, Bashardoost had declared that 80 …
India's economic growth is mainly based on energy from fossil fuels like coal and therefore has considerable potential in reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well in CDM participation. CDM projects starting after January 1, 2000, are eligible to earn certified emission reductions (CERs). However the modalities and procedures …
Vedanta aims to develop and manage a diverse portfolio of mining and metals businesses to provide attractive returns to the shareholders whilst carrying out the activities in a socially and environmentally responsible manner and creating value for the communities. This report attempts to highlights the contribution to sustainable development by …
www.first8.org At this year's UN Commission of Sustainable Development's meet in New York (April 19 to 30), progress on millennium development goals (MDGs) related to clean drinking water, human settlements and sanitation was reviewed. The world was nowhere in sight of attaining the goals, the evaluation showed. Meeting the MDGs …
In Moscow, a celebration. One date symbolically sutured the two Russian cities: June 27. On that day, in 1954, the world’s first nuclear power station hummed into life in Obninsk, producing electricity till 2002. On that day 50 years later, 500 scientists and policy makers from 32 countries attended the …
India's nuclear power programme is also entering a crucial phase. Every challenge for the next 50 years the conference debated, India has to face and sort out before running the nuclear path. It needs to do that fast because it is just beginning to take its nuclear power programme seriously. …
Would it be cynical to interpret the conference's call to revive the nuclear power sector as hardsell? No. The present is as opportune a moment as can be. And for two sets of reasons. For one, 70 per cent of the world's 442 nuclear reactors will have turned utterly geriatric …
Four problems bedevil the nuclear energy sector: proliferation, political coyness over technology options that discourage proliferation, radioactive waste, and
The Common Minimum Programme of the United Progressive Alliance lets go of the opportunity to present a bold new vision to conserve the environment through sustainable development. GIVEN the excitement generated by the way in which the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power in May, one could be …
How is the world faring in terms of water and sanitation? As per figures, Asia is not doing badly. The real crisis is in Africa and in rural Latin America. According to statistics, developing countries such as India are also doing well. But we should never forget that there is …
The project of "sustainable consumption' encompasses broader concerns about how individual well-being and quality of life have been superceded by the quest for sustained economic growth. In 1999, the currentUK Labour government revised their sustainable development approach, conceptually placing "people at the centre' and arguing for holistic strategies, thereby suggesting …
• Quite a few countries will attain targets of developing integrated water resources management by 2005 but many require further assistance • Many countries are on track to halve the population without access to safe drinking water by 2015 but progress is uneven and many countries may fail to meet …
On the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on human settlements Human settlement is not getting as much as attention as water and sanitation. But we cannot provide water and sanitation to people who lack shelter. Today, about one billion people live in slums and if present trends continue, 1.5 billion people …
