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Training scheme aims to 'green' UN peacekeeping operationsBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 10, 2010
As part of a concerted effort to 'green' UN peacekeeping operations, an intensive training programme for UN peacekeeping missions on environmental matters is taking place at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi. According to the 2009 UN Greenhouse Gas inventory, UN Field... Read more.. |
ASEM summit to discuss a slew of issuesBy : Preeti Aggarwal, Oct 4, 2010
Vice-President Hamid Ansari arrived here on Sunday to attend the eighth Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit, which has been termed a “policymaking laboratory” for the free and frank environment it gives world leaders to air their views. The summit, taking place a month... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology , War |
PCMC seeks more time for JNNURM projectsBy : sustainabilityo..., Jul 24, 2010
The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has sought a one year extension from the Union government for completing the Pavana dam Nigdi pipeline project and sewage treatment plant (STP) at Charholi being carried out under... Read more.. Subject Tags: The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation , War |
Shyam Saran: India's China challengeBy : sustainabilityo..., Jul 21, 2010
In fashioning an appropriate China strategy, India must recognise that the essential character of India-China relations is and will remain competitive. We represent two contrasting but long-standing civilisations. Each has its own deeply rooted cultural ethos despite the... Read more.. |
Water Dispute Raises Tension Between India and PakistanisBy : sustainabilityo..., Jul 21, 2010
In this high Himalayan valley on the Indian-controlled side of Kashmir, the latest battle line between India and Pakistan has been drawn. his time it is not the ground underfoot, which has been disputed since the bloody partition of British India in 1947, but the water... Read more.. |
Kashmir Youth Fight – to Save the EnvironmentBy : sustainabilityo..., Jul 9, 2010
Using the bigger space for community participation given the better security situation, young people in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir have been busy organising festivals and creative campaigns to drum up awareness of environmental woes. Among their causes are... Read more.. |
Analysis: Who benefits from 2-year moratorium on forest clearing?By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 8, 2010
It didn’t take long for palm oil producers to respond to Norway’s recently signed US$1 billion grant, given in exchange for a two-year moratorium on any new clearing of Indonesia’s rainforest and peatlands. Association of Palm Oil Producers secretary-general Joko Supriyono... Read more.. |
India conspires againBy : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 5, 2010
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Stepping up the ‘green' footprintBy : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 4, 2010
India will overtake the US in becoming the nation with the largest registered green building footprint in the world by 2015, according to the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). Apart from the sense of pride one feels over India's achievement, the country's prospective... Read more.. |
Island claimed by India and Bangladesh sinks below sea levelBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 25, 2010
For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island has gone. New Moore island in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, said... Read more.. |