‘Introduce Gross Environmental Product in planning and implementation activities’

Anil Joshi, founder of the Himalayan Environmental Studies & Conservation Organisation (HESCO) here, has urged the Uttarakhand Government to play the forerunner by introducing Gross Environmental Product (GEP) in its planning and implementation activities as the highly endangered health of the natural resources needed to be improved before it was too late.

The Ozone Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) conferred a honor to the Chinese government for its contribution to ozone layer protection in an event marking this year's Int

The hole in the ozone layer, the earth's protective shield against ultraviolet rays, is expected to be smaller this year over the Antarctic than last, showing how a ban on harmful substances has st

Disposal of refrigeration compressors containing chloro fluoro carbons (CFCs) and hydro chloro fluoro carbons (HCFCs) will now be brought on the radar of the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board.

The Montreal Protocol (MP) is the only climate change treaty that has been ratified by every country in the globe and is testament to the fact that nations can achieve complete unanimity in fighting climate change.

In a function held to celebrate 25 years of MP organised by the ministry of environment and forests, New York-based Dr Suely Carvalho, chief of the Montreal Protocol, pointed out that parties to the protocol have phased out 98 per cent of ozone-depleting chemicals.

Save natural resourses to next generation, suggests Suresh Heblikar

The rich natural resources available in the Western Ghats belt in the State could be preserved with the help of UNESCO heritage tag to the ghats, opined environmentalist Suresh Heblikar. Addressing media persons, in the town on Thursday after participating in an interaction programme on the environment and UNESCO tag, he said that UNESCO tag is important to preserve the rivers, water, food, minerals, timber and other natural resources in the ghat area and save it for the future generation. In the absence of the tag, the river sources would diminish and rivers would dry up.