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 …
MukulSanwal[1] Global climate policy is being reframed, moving away from an exclusive focus on emissions, the symptoms, to the causes of the problem, use of energy, and new sustainable development architecture. The Co-chair’s Non-Paper, as the draft negotiating text,shows that divergent perspectives on how best to achieve the Objective of …
Compromises have to be made by all Mukul Sanwal The current impasse in the climate negotiations provides an unprecedented opportunity for the BRICS countries to re-frame a global challenge that has divided countries for the last 20 years. In an increasingly interdependent world for growing economies an agreement is more …
Moving from emission reductions to energy use as the basis for international cooperation must now shape our approach to the climate negotiations MukulSanwal[1] The Prime Ministerof India has called for a bold new vision on climate change,effectively moving from ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’, focused on burden sharing, to ‘sharing responsibility …
The Pope has said he hopes the document, entitled LautadoSii (Praised be),’On Care for Our Common Home’, will influence the UN conference on climate change in Paris this year. Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon praised the moral leadership being demonstrated by Pope Francis, also hoping that this …
The developing countries must take the lead just as they have done in the transformation to sustainable development Mukul Sanwal[1] The United Nations process has been jolted with developing countries unanimously rejecting the text that was to be the basis for negotiations. Even more unprecedented is the lack of confidence …
Mukul Sanwal[1] The Paris Agreement shifts the global concern away from the sole focus of the Climate Convention on emissions reductions, which is really the symptom of the problem, to dealing with its causes, that is, human activities inthe urban transition.The Purpose of the Agreement, or the new global climate …
The First International conference on Poverty and Sustainable Development(ICPSD) 2014 is keen to discuss and examine about widespread public concern. As the world forwarded to year 2015,every one has started to talk about how far the world achieved the Millennium development Goals which has set up in 2000 for coming …
Mineral Industry and its sustainable development is a prime mover in the growth of a nation. India is endowed with vast mineral wealth and has a strong human resource base of geologists, mining and mineral engineers and metallurgists to help convert the mineral wealth to useful metals. The development and …
The International Conference on Strengthening Climate Justice Initiatives: Livelihood Challenges at local level with a focus on Farmers, organized by the Nirma University will take place from 8th November to the 9th November 2014 at the NIRMA University in North Gujarat, India. The conference will cover areas like Climate Change …
Several critical climate change and evaluation events have been scheduled for 2014 and 2015. First, the global community will transition from achieving targets related to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are expected to prominently feature environment and climate change issues. Second, the long anticipated …
For climate change, this is time of urgency, big ideas, and hope. 2015 will be a year of decisions – in Paris at the 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and elsewhere – decisions that set the agenda for action, agreement, and accountability …
The Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network (EMAN) Asia Pacific (AP) was established in 2001 by professionals and academics working towards the development and promotion of Sustainability Management Accounting. It is closely linked with the EMAN Global Network.The EMAN Global conferences aim to provide a venue for practitioners and academics …
The Annual International Conference on Ecology, Biodiversity and Environment (CEBE) serves as a platform for academics, researchers, scientists, consultants and policy makers to interact and discuss how to improve ecology and environment in order to cope with the fast industrial development. The conference will provide an opportunity for the participants …
In the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, situated in one of the driest and most water-stressed region of the world, sustainable water provision to the various development activities has grown to be one of the most challenging tasks faced. This is due to limited available natural water resources on one …
Energy and Environment Engineering Department of Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology (QUEST), Nawabshah is organizing 3rd International Conference on “Energy and Environment: Innovation, Research & Sustainability 2015” (ICEE’15) on February 25-27, 2015.This conference will provide an opportunity for researchers, scientists, engineers and industrial professionals to present the most …
The Education, Science, and Technology for Sustainable Development 2014 International (ESTSD'14 Conference) will provide the ideal opportunity to meet experts in education, educational sciences, social sciences and engineering, public policy, environmental sciences, education economics, geography, information technology, urban and cultural studies, researchers, and practitioners. Also, the conference provides an excellent …
Most developing countries enjoyed a relatively high level of economic growth over the last three decades accompanied by rapid industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural intensification. This growth relied extensively on the country’s abundant and diverse natural resources. It has led to the degradation of land and water quality, caused the loss …
The National seminar on science led development for environment sustainablity, organized by the BdFISH Event will take place from 27th December to the 28th December 2014 at the Madurai Kamaraj University in Madurai, India. The conference will cover areas like Agricultural sciences,life sciences ,environment sciences, medical sciences,engineering sciencse.
The aim is to provide a platform for researchers, scientist, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business …
To mark the bicentenary of Don Bosco's birth in 2015, The Don Bosco Institute of Technology(DBIT), India, together with IEEE India, is hosting this International Conference on Technologies for Sustainable Development and calling for research papers in the nine streams listed here - Energy, Design, Water, Agriculture, Waste management, Transportation, …
