<p>Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate
The Indian corporate sector has realised the dangers posed by climate change, and is slowly, but surely, amalgamating green technology with it score growth strategy
This is the Summary Report of the International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2009), organised by IGES in Hayama, Japan on 26-27 June 2009.
Over the next century, climate change will dramatically alter natural resource management. Specifically, historical reference conditions may no longer serve as benchmarks for restoration, which may foster a
THERE is justifiable relief over the fact that the growth rate of the Indian economy has not plummeted as sharply as that of most other countries in this phase of global economic slowdown. With the worst on the global crisis now deemed to be over, India is setting its eyes on a grand revival, expecting the growth rate to bounce back to 9 per cent from the current estimate of around 6 per cent.
MUMBAI: The state government has appointed The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) to study the likely impact of climate change in Maharashtra in the years to come. The study will be undertaken in the next two months and spread over two years.
THE European Union (EU) has challenged rising powers India and China to brake their soaring greenhouse gas emissions in return for Western financial support.
Best engineer award given to NIT-T Director Chidambaram WELL DONE: Director, NIT, Tiruchi, M. Chidambaram, left, receiving the Best Engineer Award from R. Kumar, right, Chairman, Institution of Engineers (India ), Tiruchi Local Centre at SASTRA University in Thanjavur.
New Delhi: The PMO is considering a concept note to create a National Climate Change Mitigation Authority that would oversee an act that sets up aspirational climate-related targets for the country to achieve by 2020. The move will help ward off the charge that India is obstructionist on climate change.
As warming of the climate gathers alarming pace posing a danger to agriculture, greenhouse cultivation is the only answer to save crops of flowers and vegetables, experts have said.
New Delhi: It pays to have a conscience. That seems to be the motto as Delhi gears up for its first-ever job fair for the green sector. The fair, part of an initiative to bring sustainable development into the mainstream, promises to offer career opportunities in a field that has till now been seen as the preserve of NGOs and bleeding-heart liberals.
