The participants at the UN climate conference in Cancun finally reached a ‘settlement’ and decided to set up a $100 billion Green Fund to fight global warming. The Green Fund is expected to mobilize $100 billion per year by 2020 and will be given to developing countries for adaptation and mitigation purposes. India described the…
‘If the government makes it mandatory that 50 per cent of the money being spent towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) will be used for massive afforestation, then millions of hectares of land will be covered by forests. ‘At the same time the government will not have to worry about the fund… since the corporate world…
At the moment, there is something akin to a mix of the real and the mystical in general perceptions about the earth’s myriad sustainability and environment issues. There is glamour even, thanks to Kyoto, Copenhagen, Cancun, and the ‘will do, won’t do’ suspense scenarios. For most of us on the other side of governance, helplessness…
Governments should affirm the goal of a new legally binding climate change agreement, but focus for now on incremental steps that can deliver stronger action, resources and transparency even in the absence of binding commitments, says a new report by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released December 7 at the UN Climate Change…
The data on cases registered for violation of human rights, gathered by National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), shows that Uttar Pradesh and Delhi account for 67 per cent of the total violations registered across the country between December 1, 2009, and October 31, 2010. Of the total of 78,657 human rights violations, 46,917 were reported…
The increased public and political focus on global warming has diverted discussion away from world resource depletion, particularly the depletion of fossil fuel energy with its potentially disastrous impact on world food production. According to its own internal whistleblowers, the International Energy Agency (IEA) appears to have falsified information on world fossil fuel depletion –…
PVR Nest, the CSR arm of PVR Ltd, was ‘highly commended’ under the Best Green Educational Project Category (Promoting Sustainable Development Issues)’ at Global Green Award 2010 in London. Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC – Let’s Grow (UK)bagged the award in the same category. PVR Nest was appreciated for its efforts in promoting sustainable development issues…
After starting a heated debate earlier this month with his remark on use of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) being criminal, environment minister Jairam Ramesh renewed his attack on the use of diesel for luxury cars and shrugged off protests by some manufacturers of SUVs. ‘The diesel subsidy was introduced for a certain economic purpose, but…
‘We are lucky to have supportive families to have broken the glass ceiling, but the reality out there points out that we have a long way to go. I would say rural India is kinder to the girl child than the economically empowered urban India. Going by the statistics, in rural India the female:male ratio…
he idea of Imagine is embodied in something called the Empowerment Workshop. It seeks to empower women in challenging life circumstances to envision and create new possibilities for their life, family and community through participation in the workshop. The training programme, developed by David Gershon and Gail Straub, founders and co-directors of the Empowerment Institute”s…
