Environment

15.01.2008

OneWorld South Asia’s Seventh Annual Regional Meeting on February 8-9, 2008, at New Delhi, focused on Southern voices and perspectives on the Climate Change debate. More...

24.10.2007 The World Sustainable Development Forum is organizing Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi on 7-9 February 2008 to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Noble laureate R.K. Pachauri says in his message that the summit assumes unusual importance because it will deal with the theme of sustainable development and climate change.

21.09.2007 Personal hygiene may be taken seriously by the people; yet toilet waste is finding its way into water bodies. Public indifference and a lack of action are creating a serious health hazard in the city of Colombo and rural areas.

14.09.2007

Credit:Blackstone Group

Rapidly industrialising India and China have claimed four of the top 10 most polluted places on the planet for the first time, according to a report by U.S. and European environmental groups

02.07.2007 India’s water man and Magsaysay Award winner Rajinder Singh is busy rallying people on the banks of river Yamuna, that flows through Agra - the city of the Taj Mahal, to stand up for their water rights by protecting river Yamuna from pollution and “from being handed over” to the MNCs.

11.05.2007 South Korean steel company POSCO’s $12 billion investment in Orissa has run into trouble. The proposed steel plant will displace thousands of farmers and lead to environmental problems.

09.05.2007 Environmentalists and public health groups across nations expressed their concern over the future role of ADB in Japan's 3R Initiative - reduce, reuse, recycle. The 3R waste management policy fails to hold the generators responsible for their wastes.

08.05.2007 Toxics Link, an Indian organisation working for environmental justice and freedom from toxics, is conducting a workshop on e-waste management on 17 May 2007 at Quality Inn Aruna, 144, Sterling Road, Chennai, India. The workshop aims to facilitate discussions and information exchange among various stakeholders on e-waste management practices in the state.

07.05.2007 The Gowda community in the southern Indian state of Kerala was persuaded to voluntarily shift from the Tirunelli-Kudrakote, a human - elephant conflict-ridden area. In a significant move the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) with support from the UK-based World Land Trust and the IUCN Netherlands Committee have provided alternate houses, cultivativable land, drinking water, and other civic amenities to the people who opted to relocate.

29.03.2007 Greenpeace activists beamed huge slides on to the cooling tower of the National Thermal Power Corporation's (NTPC) power plant, that supplies electricity to Indian capital New Delhi, to brand the culprits of climate change. The message Stop Climate Change – Energy (r)evolution now! is for the Indian government to rethink its energy strategy before climate change starts affecting economic development of the country.