Full Coverage: Environment

28.06.2006 Oil wars, water wars, land wars, atmospheric wars: this is the real face of economic globalisation, whose appetite for resources is exceeding the limits of sustainability and justice, writes Vandana Shiva, an author and international campaigner for women and the environment.

26.06.2006 Almost a year after the unprecedented deluge of July 26, 2005, the Maharashtra government is yet to introduce ‘disaster management’ as a subject of study in schools at the secondary level, even though it had planned to do so from the current academic year.

23.06.2006 A working group of APC members aims to bring environment higher on the ICT policy priorities of global civil society. Information and communication technologies are a powerful tool for civil society protecting environment. But more is needed to streamline ICT work of different groups and communities, and offer them access to the ICTs they need to secure environmental sustainability, a BlueLink/APC survey shows.

23.06.2006 ADB today signed an agreement to establish a knowledge hub on clean energy at India's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

23.06.2006 Community leaders from Mehdiganj in north India began a hunger strike to demand the closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. The leaders have accused the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mehdiganj of creating severe water shortages affecting over twenty villages, polluting agricultural land and groundwater, illegally occupying land, evading taxes and treating workers unfairly.

22.06.2006 La novedad de los envases plásticos es que sus migraciones no son inocuas ni enaltecedoras del producto, como podría ser la migración de la vasija de roble para el vino tinto. Todo lo contrario: aquí estamos hablando de migraciones cancerígenas.

22.06.2006 The Macedonian Green Centre (MGC), in cooperation with six environmental NGOS – Eko-Svest, Proaktiva and Eko.net from Skopje, Biosfera from Bitola, IO Krste Jon/Zelen Centar from Struga, and Green Power from Veles – started the “Vote Nature!” Campaign.

22.06.2006 A new book has been recently launched that shows the way forward on
integrated water resources management (IWRM) with suggestions for the key organisational and managerial changes required at the macro and micro levels. The book Charting a New Course: A Strategy for Sustainable Management of India's Water Resources in the 21st Century by GN Kathpalia and Rakesh Kapoor goes beyond the acerbic debate on water resources between the 'pro-environment' groups and NGOs on the one hand and the 'pro-development' engineers, contractors and government officials on the other. Priced at Rs 75, (US $7) the book is Crown size and 64 pages.

21.06.2006 IUCN - The World Conservation Union, through its Species Survival Commission (SSC) has for more than four decades been assessing the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties and even selected subpopulations on a global scale in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and therefore promote their conservation.

16.06.2006 The Regional Education and Information Centre for Sustainable Development (REIC), Sarajevo announces Summer School ‘Environmental Integration in Territorial Management and Planning’ from August 28 – September 10, 2006 in partnership with UNESCO – BRESCE and the Centre for Central and Eastern Europe Studies at the University of Bologna.

16.06.2006 One quarter of the global disease burden in adults is related to environmental risk factors that could be modified with existing interventions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a new report.

16.06.2006 Eight thousand families in northern Pakistan left destitute by last OctoberÂ’s devastating earthquake that killed around 80,000 will receive financial and technical support to rebuild their houses and buy livestock through a new project supported by a $26.4 million loan from the UnitedNations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

16.06.2006 Flood preparation, including adequate provisioning of emergency supplies, their fair distribution and management of the entire relief efforts, all assume critical importance in decreasing human sufferings in flooded areas and help in their recovery from floods.

16.06.2006 FAO has created a discussion forum on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) for participants to share experiences and resources, seek advice and test ideas with colleagues working on similar issues.

16.06.2006 In the coming weeks, the Ramsar Regional Center for Training and Research on Wetlands in the Western Hemisphere (CREHO) will launch an electronic newsletter, INFOWETLAND.

15.06.2006 A general diagram is provided that describes the data analysis questions that you can ask when analysing biodiversity based on the methodologies that are provided in this manual.

15.06.2006 Reliable information on water depletion for agricultural production is much needed when freshwater resources are getting scarcer. This is the case in the irrigated Indus basin.

15.06.2006 A global campaign for disaster reduction education will be launched on 15 June at UNESCO (6 p.m., Room II), by the Inter-Agency Secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), UNESCO and the French National Committee for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

15.06.2006 "Sustainable development must be seen as an opportunity for progress, not as an obstacle", said EPP-ED spokesman Anders Wijkman leading today's debate with Commission and Council in the EP on the Sustainable Development Strategy.

15.06.2006 from Ecologist:
You can watch the football and also behave in an ecologically sound manner, thanks to a new website called ‘Who should I cheer for?’
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