Bond aid for the poor
Rich nations give from one hand and take away with the other. A report card
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Clean air scorecard: helping improve management of air pollution and GHG emissions
Air quality management in cities have been traditionally evaluated using the good versus bad list analysis
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For good measure
An index that also uses socio economic parameters
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Profit's the non word
About non profit organisations NPOs , also thought non governmental
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Productive sanitation and the link to food security
This factsheet provides information on the link between sanitation and agriculture as well as related implications on health, economy and environment. It shows examples of treating and using treated excreta
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Shift to public transport should conserve energy
A shift to public transport should avert the energy crisis
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Unfair price shop
Open markets to free trade, says the US. Yet it doles out sops to its farmers. Highly subsidised US produce floods global markets, bringing down prices sharply. Efficient farmers of the developing countries suffer.
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Key legal cases on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and its aftermath
This fact sheet contains major legal cases concerning Bhopal Gas Tragedy.
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What is being done regarding toxic waste at Union Carbide, Bhopal
This fact sheet contains what is being done regarding toxic waste at Union Carbide, Bhopal.
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Economics of climate adaptation (ECA) – shaping climate-resilient development: a framework for decision-making (India factsheet)
This factsheet presents expected drought losses under the high climate change scenario with possible response measures (e.g. insurance) for Maharashtra, India. It asserts that making rural communities
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Rules for fuels: biofuels and climate change impacts
As biofuel production ramps up, WRI economist Liz Marshall explains in this factsheet, why counting all the greenhouse gas impacts associated with producing these new fuels is critical to good energy and climate policy.
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The importance of population for climate change challenges and solutions
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It has been historically driven by an atmospheric build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs) generated mostly by the industrialized world. The consequences of climate change
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Chasing a paper d ream
Since the 1990s, the use of recycled paper has unfortunately reduced by half
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What's on the table for Doha?- CSE Fact Sheet on climate, 2012
The last conference of the Parties that took place in Durban in 2011 has put climate negotiations at the crossroads again. The decisions taken at Cancun in 2010 supported a bottom-up approach where countries
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Sharing the climate burden
Equity has been central to the multilateral negotiations on climate change mitigation and adaptation between the South and the North. The dispute is not with the science that establishes the need to keep
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Black carbon- CSE Fact Sheet on Climate Change 2012
Black carbon is a component of soot, released during combustion, particularly incomplete combustion of fossil fuels or biomass. It is released when carbon is only partially combusted. The main sources
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Who is emitting, 2010
As per World Resources Institute’s Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) version 7.0, USA has less than 5 per cent of the world’s population, but accounts for more than 20 per cent of the global carbon
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State has fewer people using tobacco products
In comparison to the national percentage, Tamil Nadu has fewer people using tobacco products, according to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey India 2009-2010. In Tamil Nadu, 24 per cent of men, and 8.4 per
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Rip-offsets: the failure of the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is supposed to catalyze climate-friendly projects in low-income countries by allowing developers to generate revenue by selling
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Household hazardous waste: its time to regulate this hazard
This fact sheet intends to describe some of the potential dangers associated with household hazardous wastes (HHW), as well as to provide information about how to property manage and prevent the generation of HHW.