Full Coverage: Environmental activism

20.12.2007 Located in a small hamlet in Boormajra in northern Indian state of PunjabÂ’s Ropar district, a government school was adjudged as the countryÂ’s greenest school second time in a row. A Delhi-based organisation, Centre for Science and Environment under its Green School Programme, in a ceremony held here distributed the awards to 20 schools for their best environmental practices.

20.12.2007

20.12.2007

14.12.2007 This week, the World Bank introduced a new multi-million dollar fund to remunerate developing countries for the value of their living forests at the UN climate conference in Bali.

14.12.2007 Yet again the US has chosen to go against the UN framework on climate change and instead has put forward a proposal without any binding international commitment. Greenpeace International says itÂ’s a made-in-the-USA plan for a climate catastrophe.

12.12.2007 Magsaysay awardee Rajender Singh spoke to OneWorld South Asia, on December 9, in an interview after the culmination of nine-day long march to save the groundwater resources. His satyagrah on the banks of the Yamuna in New Delhi has been going on for the past more than 100 days. Following are the excerpts:

12.12.2007 A senior US Congressman will “travel” virtually to participate in the climate conference currently going on in Indonesia. This has been made possible by OneClimate along with Cisco to save the carbon cost of flying.

11.12.2007 The United Nations 'framework convention' on climate change currently going on at Bali, Indonesia is halfway through and yet no breakthrough is in sight, says Anil Netto. The official view, however, is one of optimism that progress has been made in laying the ''building blocks'' for a future agreement.

07.12.2007 Centre for Science and Environment, an India-based organisation, rubbishes the clean development mechanism, saying that developed nations are more interested in capturing markets in developing economies than addressing the issue of clean development. No high-end technologies have been transferred from the rich to poor countries, claims its director Sunita Narain.

04.12.2007

03.12.2007 Faced with the shortage of fodder, the villagers of north Indian state Himachal Pradesh went against the government's planting of pines in favour of broadleaved species of trees, which could also be used as food for cattle.