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Sustainable Development
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Sustainability is not a choice, but a necessity
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Feb 12, 2014
South Asian region is most vulnerable to climate change impact, warns Thet Thet Zin, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Myanmar.
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
[Climate Change]
[Myanmar]
[India]
[Greenhouse emission]
[Bhutan]
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India has a great potential for setting up next-gen cities
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Feb 12, 2014
“We need to think on the possibilities of creating smart sustainable cities,’’said Amitabh Kant, MD, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC).
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
[DSDS 2014]
[India]
[Delhi Sustainable Development Summit]
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Pakistan kicks off strategy for sustainable development
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Aug 05, 2013
The ambitious tech-driven agenda may help the country ward off natural disasters and move to a path of sustainable growth.
[Pakistan]
[Environment]
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
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Indian government launches MP model village scheme
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Oct 13, 2014
The Indian Prime Minister said that people’s participation in development was essential in building model villages.
[Sustainable Development]
[South Asia]
[Rural India]
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Gujarat model did not benefit the poor: Jayati Ghosh
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Sep 11, 2014
Despite a high growth rate, wages in Gujarat are the second lowest in India, says renowned Indian economist, Jayati Ghosh.
[Sustainable Development]
[Gujarat]
[South Asia]
[UNCTAD]
[India Poverty]
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Chronic diseases account for 60% of deaths in India: study
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Apr 08, 2015
The cost of these diseases which occur in the form of various ailments like diabetes, strokes and hypertension is between 4% and 10% of the country’s GDP.
[India]
[Health sector]
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
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Smiling women make a beautiful society, says ace photographer
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Mar 09, 2014
Ace photographer Ashok Kochhar featured a mammoth collection of one thousand smiling female faces from all walks of life on the International Women’s Day in New Delhi. He believes that every woman has ample reason to smile everyday and not just on the Women’s Day. He tells us more about his exhibition, titled ‘A Million Smiles’.
[Indian women]
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
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Urbanisation threatens sustainable development : UN study
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Jul 03, 2013
Innovative strategies and investments are needed to promote sustainable development, including in the world's cities, said Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.
[Sustainable Development]
[UN]
[Development]
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There is a need for stricter fuel emission norms: Shri Prakash
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Jan 31, 2014
Increasing air pollution has become a great health hazard and is responsible for increase in respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, writes Shri Prakash, Distinguished Fellow, TERI.
[Sustainable Development]
[Enviornment]
[Delhi Sustainable Development Summit]
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Nagaland hosts summit on mountain development
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Sep 26, 2013
The Sustainable Mountain Development Summit is an effort by the Himalayan states of the country to chalk out a roadmap for sustainable development.
[India]
[Himalayas]
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
[Enviornment]
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Roundtable to discuss financing for sustainable farming
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Jan 07, 2014
OneWorld along with SJS is organising a roundtable conference in New Delhi to discuss ways of financing sustainable agriculture in Uttarakhand.
[Sustainable Development]
[Agriculture]
[Sustainable Agriculture]
[South Asia]
[Uttarakhand]
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Conference to bring NGOs, corporates together
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Feb 27, 2012
A three-day exhibition and conference that aims at fostering alliances and networks between Indian corporates and NGOs will have 150 NGOs and foundations to showcase their work. The event, from March 16-18, 2012, is being supported by Guidestar India, Oxfam, The National Trust and FICCI.
[South Asia]
[NGO]
[Sustainable Development]
[CSR]
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Golden Peacock Awards 2012
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Aug 01, 2012
This year’s Golden Peacock Awards (under various sectors and categories to create intra-sector competitiveness) will be presented at Lords, during the London Global Convention, being held on 10-12 October 2012 in London.
[Climate change]
[Sustainable Development]
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Sterlite firing: Young men fear arrest, torture
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Jun 04, 2018
A preliminary report of a People's Inquest provides an account on the violation of human rights of people protesting the Sterlite copper smelter plant. It notes that many people have been rounded up and beaten by police.
[Police firing]
[Human Rights]
[Sustainable Development]
[Police]
[India pollution]
[Vedanta]
[Sterlite]
[India pollution deaths]
[Human rights]
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DSDS-2015 to open the debate on development agenda
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Feb 01, 2015
Representatives from over 35 countries, 13 Heads of States (current and former), ministers and more than 100 corporate heads will attend the Summit.
[Sustainable Development]
[Development]
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The ‘art’ of sustainable development
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Aug 14, 2012
Nokia launched “Create To Inspire,” a fellowship programme with Oxfam India to engage India’s youth on sustainable consumption, initially kick-starting in the cities of Delhi and Hyderabad.
[Youth]
[International Youth Day]
[Sustainable Development]
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Minister assures support to beleaguered NGOs
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Aug 21, 2012
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni assured the Indian non profit sector of help regarding the delisting of over 4,000 NGOs by the government. Speaking at the India NGO Awards, Soni said: “I was extremely sorry to know that these NGOs were delisted. I will help you find out why they were delisted. You can also use the Right to Information (RTI) route. The RTI too was an outcome of the efforts of the civil society.”
[Human rights]
[NGO]
[India]
[Award]
[Sustainable Development]
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Institute for sustainable enterprise takes off
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Sep 02, 2012
The kick-starting of the Indian Institute of Sustainable Business in the southern city of Bangalore, India will prove to be an innovative and much-needed space which will ensure future entrepreneurs work through sustainable business models and principles.
[sustainable business practices]
[Sustainable Development]
[India]
[Sustainable technology]
[Corporate social responsibilty]
[Education]
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Budgeting for sustainability
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Feb 07, 2012
Government schemes should be re-oriented from an ecological and social justice perspective in the long run. But, as an intermediate measure, each of these agencies should budget for environmental measures, writes environmentalist Ashish Kothari.
[Environment]
[South Asia]
[India]
[Budget]
[Sustainable Development]
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Sustainable development of oceans key to fight hunger
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Apr 23, 2013
"The sustainable development of world’s maritime harvests, as well as climate change, had become “a question of survival – just like hunger,” a UN official said.
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
[Hunger]
[India]
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UN agencies make progress towards climate neutrality
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Mar 03, 2014
The fifth edition of the report ‘Moving Towards a Climate Neutral UN’ details the emissions from 64 United Nations organizations.
[India]
[Sustainable Development]
[Climate Change]
[South Asia]
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Greenpeace International rejects piracy allegations
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Sep 26, 2013
The Greenpeace International ship is currently being held outside the port city of Murmansk in Russia.
[Sustainable Development]
[Enviornment]
[Greenpeace International]
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Wetlands conservation is a prime focus of MP government:Thakkar
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Feb 18, 2014
Lokendra Thakkar, Coordinator, Environmental Planning and Coordination Organization, Madhya Pradesh spoke to OneWorld South Asia at the International Conference on Lakes and Wetlands. Excerpts:
[Sustainable Development]
[India]
[Wetlands]
[South Asia]
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Hope SDGs achieve what MDGs could not: DSDS-2014
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Feb 18, 2014
Water needs to be priced to reflect its scarcity, said, Montek Singh, Deputy Chairperson, Planning Commission of India, during his valedictory address at DSDS-2014.
[India]
[Delhi Sustainable Development Summit]
[DSDS 2014]
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
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Treat wetlands as living bodies, urge experts
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Feb 18, 2014
Governance played a crucial role in the conservation of lakes, said, Mansee Bal, Faculty, Erasmus University, Rotterdam Netherlands.
[India]
[Madhya Pradesh]
[Wetlands]
[Climate Change policy]
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
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Minimise groundwater misuse, urges Indian PM
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Dec 28, 2012
Lack of water could become the limiting factor to social and economic growth in future, says the Prime Minister of Indian, Dr Manmohan Singh.
[Sustainable Development]
[South Asia]
[India drinking water]
[Indian Prime Minister]
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India’s fuel import bill makes sense for it to develop biofuel technology: Expert
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Nov 10, 2012
Himadri B Pakrasi, Director, International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES), is director of two prestigious large-scale, multi-institutional, Systems Biology projects in the Washington University. OneWorld’s Ashok Kumar spoke to him on the role of biofuels and how these make economic sense for developing countries like India.
[Washington University]
[Biofuels]
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
[Biodiversity]
[Solar energy]
[India]
[Sustainable technology]
[Renewable Energy]
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Accessibility is key to empowerment: Disability activist Javed Abidi
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Jul 24, 2015
You cannot educate or employ the disabled people with creating accessibility for them, said noted disability rights activist Javed Abidi.
[South Asia]
[Disability]
[Sustainable Development]
[India]
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Green Federalism: Experiences and Practices
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Jul 16, 2015
The book ‘Green Federalism: Experiences and Practices’ draws from the experiences of nine federal countries of the world.
[India]
[Sustainable Development]
[South Asia]
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Rising prosperity adding to India’s chronic disease woes: James Curran
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Jun 24, 2015
Prof James Curran, Dean, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, United States, in an interview to OneWorld South Asia, tells how chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes are going to be the major cause of death in India. Excerpts from the interview:
[PHFI]
[Hypertension]
[South Asia]
[Sustainable Development]
[Health MDGs]
[Healthcare]
[India]
[Health sector]