MDG7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
- Photo Credit: Rahul Kumar
Renewable energy targets: Greenpeace protests in Delhi
[Renewable Energy]
[South Asia]
[Greenpeace]
Rockefeller Foundation launches challenge to build resilience in 100 cities globally
May 14, 2013 06:55 PM Through the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, The Rockefeller Foundation is inviting cities from around the world to apply to be named one of 100 resilient cities.
New study links CO2 to Earth temperature
May 01, 2013 12:07 PM
The findings prove that if we do not move to arrest growing CO2 levels, the earth is doomed to return to a greenhouse state where no life can survive.
[Carbon emissions]
[Carbon policy]
[Environment]
[Greenhouse emission]
Chennai power plant to use garbage as its fuel
May 01, 2013 11:00 AM
The plant, which would be a public-private enterprise, is expected to generate three megawatts of power every hour.
[India]
[Renewable Energy]
[South Asia]
India helping the world build its Sun
Apr 29, 2013 12:27 PM
India will supply the largest and heaviest components to a machine three times as heavy as the Eiffel Tower and ten times as hot as the Sun—all for safe, cheap and inexhaustible power.
[South Asia]
[India]
[Renewable energy]
Slums to get solar street light in Rajshahi of Bangladesh
Apr 26, 2013 03:40 PM
Around 2,200 slum dwellers will get improved housing facilities and around two lakh poor and underprivileged population will derive solar street light amenities, officials said.
[Renewable energy]
Solar Energy: Delhi falls way behind the target
Apr 25, 2013 03:04 PM
India’s national capital, Delhi, has fallen way behind the 2 per cent target it was to have met because it has shown little will to create the infrastructure for generating renewable power, a report says.
[Delhi]
[Renewable energy]
[South Asia]
[India]
Don’t refer all green cases to tribunal, Kerala HC urged
Apr 25, 2013 11:00 AM
It has been pointed out that even for the resolution of local environmental grievances litigants have to now travel to New Delhi or Chennai, which is rarely feasible.
[South Asia]
[Environment]
[India]
Environmental hazards: Delhi lacks will to act, says official
Apr 22, 2013 04:15 PM
Despite a formidable battery of green laws and the vigilance of an army of activists, Delhi continues to gasp for fresh air and clean public spaces.
[South Asia]
[Environment]
[India]
Developed nations emit bulk of green house gases: Singh
Apr 17, 2013 12:05 PM
The goal of stabilising global temperatures at acceptable levels is nowhere in sight, rued the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh.
[Manmohan Singh]
[Environment]
[South Asia]
[Greenhouse gases]
[India]
[Green Growth]
Look forward to cooperation with India in renewables: Czech Minister
[India Renewable Energy]
[Women empowerment]
[Waste Management]
[Martin Kuba]
[Corporate social responsibilty]
[South Asia]
Sustainable development in north east India
Apr 12, 2013 10:14 AM
NERCORMP, a joint development project of IFAD and Government of India, works towards the objective of creating livelihood for vulnerable groups while contributing to environmental conservation.
[Environment]
[India]
[Northeast]
[Livelihood]
[South Asia]
Tribunal pressure to make Western Ghats report public
Apr 11, 2013 07:34 PM
India’s National Green Tribunal has urged the government to take expeditious steps to finalise the report of Gadgil Committee.
[India Western Ghats]
[Environment]
[South Asia]
Conserving indigenous agro-biodiversity in Karnataka
Apr 11, 2013 12:56 PM
The community-based Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation Programme aims to conserve agro-biodiversity, and build self-reliance and livelihood security for communities involved.
[India]
[Biodiversity]
[South Asia]
[Karnataka]
[Agriculture]
Smokeless stoves for rural homes in Karnataka
Apr 08, 2013 10:45 AM
TIDE, a Karnataka-based NGO, disseminates smokeless stoves among rural women in the state using a gender sensitive market driven approach.
[Gender Empowerment]
[Karnataka]
[Environment]
[Women]
[India]
Community Solar Power Plant Project in Uttar Pradesh
Apr 03, 2013 01:05 PM
The Community Solar Power Plant project in Jhansi district, Uttar Pradesh illustrates how the use of solar energy through participatory processes can transform rural India.
[Solar power]
[Environment]
[South Asia]
[Uttar Pradesh]
[India]
Sustainable development in northeast India
Apr 02, 2013 03:47 PM
NERCORMP, a joint development project of IFAD and Government of India, works towards the objective of creating livelihood for vulnerable groups while contributing to environmental conservation.
[Sustainable development]
[Environment]
[South Asia]
[Northeast India]
[Livelihood]
New Delhi switches off for Earth Hour 2013
Mar 25, 2013 02:00 PM
The objective behind Earth Hour is to demonstrate action against climate change, and initiate a mass movement towards more sustainable and healthy use of energy sources.
[Delhi]
[Earth Hour]
[India]
[South Asia]
Indian industries are joining the UN Water Mandate: HCC CSR official
[World Water Day]
[South Asia]
[India]
[Hindustan Construction Company]
[UN Water Mandate]
Climate change threat needs a multi-tier, multi-country effort: US official
[Robert D Hormats]
[US Under Secretary Of State]
[Climate change]
[Sustainable Development]
[DSDS 2013]
