With Navi Mumbai airport getting the green signal from ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), what has been the annual home of migratory birds (over 150 species) is bound to get ruined. Bird species including Kenyan flamingo, Siberian ducks and ruddy turnstone, godwit, heron, and spoonbill from distant Europe visit the area around the proposed…
‘It is the Nike way to pick some really big issue to work on,’ said Leslie Lane, vice president and managing director of The Nike Foundation, in Beaverton, Oregon, in a quote to The New York Times. Leslie spoke with regard to an effort known as the Girl Effect, which is a Nike Foundation –…
The Climate Instruments for the Transport Sector (CITS) study, commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), gives an assessment of the current state of affairs with regard to the impact on the transport sector in developing countries by clean development mechanism (CDM), global environment facility (GEF) and clean technology…
‘With a one-line statement, “driving SUVs in a country like India is criminal,” Jairam Ramesh ensured that he would soon own a battery of off-roaders for himself.’ “Ha, ha, ha… No wonder, he’s saving all those jungles and is after those infrastructure guys. After all, he needs some rough terrains to try those SUVs on.’…
The recently released ‘BT Sustainable Development (SD) Index – an assessment of business performance in India – 2009-10’ found Tata to be the best performer on sustainable development indicators. Conversely, according to a report titled Ethical Asia, by global research firm CLSA, the Tata group’s arm Tata Motors and ITC need to make a significant…
Standing firm despite major criticism by the industry for prescribing strict green norms, environment minister Jairam Ramesh has suggested that environment become a political issue. ‘The general mindset we have is that environment is a side issue… that is not the way to deal with it. I think we need to mainstream many of these…
The report by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on November 19 revealed that a declining trend has been witnessed in child labour in Varanasi district between 1991 and 2001 (census reports). According to the NCPCR report, there were 43,320 child labourers in Varanasi district in 1991, which reduced to 34,883 in 2001….
The first-ever report tracking global progress against pneumonia, the leading killer of children under five years of age, finds that India is witnessing the highest number of pneumonia-related child deaths in the world. The infection is killing 16 lakh children under five every year across the globe, with more than 3.7 lakh in India alone….
In an effort to encourage environment-friendly production methods, the government is working out a comprehensive accounting standard on environmental reporting. It will soon be mandatory for companies to report measures taken to prevent environmental damage. Revising the guidelines on corporate social responsibility (CSR) issued last year, the ministry of corporate affairs is adding detailed norms…
Children who should be in school and are entitled to free education under the Right to Education (RTE) act are doing hard labour across the country. A survey carried out by as many as 19,000-odd children in 882 villages in four districts of Gujarat – Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Surendranagar and Sabarkantha – has brought to the…
