The new UNEP report demonstrates that a transition to a green economy is possible by investing 2% of global GDP per year (currently about US 1.3 trillion) between now and 2050 in a green transformation of key sectors, including agriculture, buildings, energy, fisheries, forests, manufacturing, tourism, transport, water & waste …
The United Nations conference on climate change, now on in Bangkok, is expected to produce an agreement to cut global emissions drastically by 2050. Over the years, countries committed to cutting emissions have submitted their estimates to UNFCCC. In 2004, India estimated that it emits 1,228,540 Gigagram (Gg) or about …
The Annual Plan for Gujarat for the new fiscal year was on Tuesday pegged at Rs 21,000 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi. The Plan outlay includes an additional Central assistance component of Rs 130 crore …
Returning to Africa after a 10 year absence, Chris Reij could barely believe his eyes. On the arid margins of the Sahara in Niger, all he could see were trees. It was no mirage: after studying land use in Africa for three decades, he was witnessing the untold story of …
Climate change, growing populations and political concerns are prompting governments and investors from California to China to take a fresh look at desalination : a report. March 20, 2008
An environmental perspective is no longer the preserve of scruffy Greenpeace types, with their nature songs and banner protests. It's been appropriated by the men in suits with their calculators and PDAs who have just discovered the immense money-making possibilities involved in greening the economy. Nowhere is this more evident …
Climate change is likely to create new food insecurities by further pushing up the already rising prices and bringing down the world agriculture GDP by 16 per cent by 2020, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) report said. "Impact on developing countries will be much more severe than on …
Global economic growth during the past century has lifted many into lives of unprecedented luxury.The cost has been the degradation of vital ecosystems
We should not wait to cut back on burning fossil fuels until we have developed greener technology to supply our energy needs, despite what many economists are advising their respective governments. Such a waiting game may have deadly consequences. Feb 27, 2008
George Monbiot Britain's official approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are, the more yours is worth This is a column about how good intentions can run amok. It tells the story of how an honourable, intelligent man set out to avert environmental …
Four Standard XI students will compete for the international title For Agastya Muthanna, it's the sight of bleached corals while scuba diving off the Andaman Islands that sparks off his concern over global warming. Quite apart from wildlife, Ann Raymond is shocked by what she has learnt of the human …
This study deals with a range of selected issues in the areas of natural resource accounting in land and forest sectors namely physical accounting and valuation issues which are imperative in conversion of physical accounts into monetary accounts and for the integration of the latter into the ‘green’ national/state income …
All selected papers will be published in a Handbook on the Economics, Energy, Environment and Agricultural Sciences with ISBN by Pak Publishing Group. Conference proceeding will be submitted to ISI Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and Google Scholar.
The conference will work in a multidisciplinary way across the various fields and perspectives through which we can address the fundamental and related questions of sustainability. This interdisciplinary forum is for scholars, teachers, and practitioners from any professional discipline who share an interest in—and concern for— sustainability in an holistic …
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd International Conference on Energy & Environment: bringing together Engineering and Economics, ICEE, in Guimarães, Portugal, June 18-19, 2015.The conference is organized by the School of Engineering, University of Minho and the School of Economics and Management, University of Porto.ICEE …
