The Indian government has repeatedly talked of the need for ‘sustainable development’, in which environmental and human development concerns are integrated. Does the draft 12th Plan Approach Paper move India closer to this goal?...
For sustainable development, looting of natural resources must stop, H. Sudarshan, Director of Karuna Trust and Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra (VGKK), Bangalore, has said.
A boom in solar panel installations. A sizeable cash injection to fund renewable forms of heating. A “carbon budget” that binds the UK to some of the toughest greenhouse gas emissions targets in the...
In New York this week, WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) co-hosted a series of presentations on the crucial links between livestock production and the green economy. The event also provided a...
This is the first formal EU Environment Council during the Polish Presidency, led by the Minister Andrzej Kraszewski.
Over 1,400 young people descended on Indonesia last week in the biggest youth gathering on the Race to Rio yet. Coming from 118 different countries, it was also the most global gathering. With the...
Zaragoza, 5 October 2011–Successful water projects around the world that already demonstrate that there are effective and economically viable solutions to address the world’s water problems were the focus of a three-day conference organised...
In his widely read and much appreciated think piece on global environmental governance, Konrad Otto-Zimmermann engages with the question of how the governance framework needs to be designed for genuinely sustainable development to be...
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will take place in 2012, marking two decades of official international action on sustainable development. In the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the international community...
Top United Nations officials stressed the importance of tourism in reducing poverty and linking countries through tolerance and solidarity as they marked World Tourism Day.
