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'Climate change has been with us for quite some time'

Ali Tauqueer Sheikh, Director Asia, Climate and Development Knowledge Network talks about the significance of having special focus development of developing nations. ...

A snapshot of what climate change talks have achieved in 25 years

One often comes across observations made by even responsible policy makers that climate change negotiations over the past 25 years have achieved nothing. ...  

Defining the Rio 20 takeaway: 'The Future We Want'

The outcome document of the Rio 20 summit, 'The Future We Want', marks an important advance in the incorporation of a human rights dimension in the UN development agenda. ...  

Only 6 Indian states likely to achieve MDG: Report

New Delhi: Only six states in the country, including Maharashtra and Kerala, are likely to achieve the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) on reducing child mortality by 2015, a report said on Wednesday. Except Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal, other parts of the country are unlikely to achieve MDG 4, which aims to reduce Under-Five Mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, unless some key issues...  

Breaking the sanitation taboo

Transforming Bharat |  Anurodh Jain

Greek philosopher Socrates once said, "It is not living that matters, but living rightly." As the clock is inching towards the 2015 deadline of the ...

Involve developing countries in MDG: Speaker to UN chief

New Delhi: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon who is on an India trip on Friday met Meira Kumar during which the Lok Sabha speaker asked him to involve developing countries in the consultation process with regard to the millennium development goals (MDG). "The developed countries should try to fulfill commitments towards developing countries, as stipulated under Goal 8 under the MDGs, so as to achieve the goals by 2015,"...