Goal 7 specifies the international commitment to ensuring environmental sustainability, by targeting the reversing of loss of environmental resources, halving the proportion of people without sanitation and sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015, and achieving significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020. Progress towards this goal is measured by factors such as the proportion of land area covered by forests, extent of protected areas for maintaining biological diversity, energy efficiency (in terms of GDP per unit of energy use), per capita carbon dioxide emissions, and also the proportion of the population with access to improved drinking water, sanitation, and secure tenure.
30-01-2012A Tibetan NGO is helping to build women's rights on local environment issues and strengthening restoration and clean up programmes to protect Tibetan plateau's wilting habitat. more...
Image: Tibetan women working towards protecting their habitat/ Photo credit: UNDP
30-01-2012After the discovery of unsafe levels of arsenic in Nepal's groundwater more than a decade ago, government officials and aid groups are finally taking a critical look at whether their efforts have made a difference. more...
Image: Hands of an arsenicosis patient in southern Bangladesh/ Photo Credit: IRIN
09-02-2012In its latest report, the Indian government has attributed the declining forest cover in India to forest clearance by Maoist guerrillas. The statistics, however, say the contrary. more...
08-02-2012Renewable energy could effectively power India’s growth, supported by a robust IT system, say experts. more...
Image: V. Subramanian (left) launches the Cool IT leaderboard report in the presence of Shamit Aich, Executive Director, Greenpeace India/ Photo credit: Greenpeace India
Bangladesh: Research explores cheap solution to arsenic contamination 13-09-2011Scientists have come up with an innovative means of tackling the arsenic pollution problem in Bangladesh. They propose using shredded plastic bottles coated with a common amino acid to remove toxic arsenic from drinking water in a cheap and eco-friendly way.
Indian cyclone survivors need emergency aid: Red Cross 04-01-2012Tens of thousands of villagers in India’s southeastern coast need emergency aid after being hit by a cyclone, causing widespread damage which can be worse than the 2004 Tsunami.
29-12-2011Minus One Project is a CSR initiave which campaigns to reduce the font size of a document before printing for less paper consumption. more...
09-02-2012The fifth edition of the 'Cool IT Leaderboard' report, prepared by Greenpeace India, ranks 21 IT companies according to their clean energy leadership potential, willingness to embrace clean energy solutions and potential to influence energy decisions. more...
Image: Cool IT Leaderboard report/ Photo credit: Greenpeace
