Compared to developed nations, India is much more vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to their low capacity to adapt and their disproportionate dependency on natural resources for welfare, writes Dr Antony Gnanamuthu.
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With its huge energy paucity, renewable energy is the way to go for India. But despite multiple attempts, the Indian government need to be step up efforts to encourage renewables in a big way says Sumedha Basu from the Climate Parliament. She talks of powering angadwadis as a good way of powering rural India.
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An ordinance creating a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, passed by Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav on March 14 this year was prepared without consulting victims or human rights institutions. The edifice was necessitated by the 2006 peace accords. But addressing the legacy of the civil conflict that plagued Nepal between 1996 and 2006 pose complex challenges. Janak Raut, Chairperson of the Conflict Victims' Society For Justice, Nepal, expresses his reservations on a process that he feels is illegitimate.
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Conflict-related sexual violence has been used as a tactic of warfare in many armed conflicts around the globe, said Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. Excerpts from the interview.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council of the US is one of the nation's most effective environmental action groups, that brings together 1.4 million members, online activists as well as professionals like lawyers, scientists and other professionals. Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, who was in India recently, tells OneWorld that it is extremely challenging to tackle the use of dirty forms of energy.
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Wim Van Den Berg, Director of the Netherlands-based company, Van Amerongen CA Technology, said that Indian farmers would need to have better contacts with the market to raise their profits.
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