Sustainable Development

Obama hasn't done a lot on climate change: NYT columnist Thomas L Friedman

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is in Delhi to attend a Sustainable Development Summit. ...

Governance challenges in water management and water use efficiency

An effective governance mechanism is of paramount importance for water management and water use efficiency. The issue of governance is multidimensional, encompassing social, economic, political, and legal institutions, and supported by a responsive policy framework to ensure sustainability and water use efficiency. ...  

Global trends in sustainable sourcing of edible oilseed

The demand for edible oils in India has shown a compounded growth of 4.5 per cent over the last 10 years. ...  

'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. ...

World leaders gather for Sustainable Development Summit

World leaders will gather in Delhi for the Sustainable Development Summit that is being organised by global think tank The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). It will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. The gathering is said to influence the global discourse on sustainability issues. ...  

High Speed Railways in India: imperative for current times

The introduction of HSR is opposed on the grounds that they are expensive, and they can wait for some more years till the paying capacity of the people increases considerably to afford it. ...  

Sustainable development and a new knowledge economy

India provides a classic example of an apparently highly technically evolved huge potential workforce that still is categorised to be of low employability. ...  

The challenge of achieving sustainable mobility

Providing adequate and quality mobility options to the urban population is one of the key challenges that our cities face today. The trends that we are witnessing in terms of explosive motorisation are leading to major threats to environment, health and social well-being. ...  

Chalking a resource-efficient path for Africa

Amongst the fastest growing economies over the last decade, Africa has been creating its own set of concerns centred around resource consumption and production. ...  

Indian cities must act now on city climate resilience plans

Cities across the world, due to their rapid population growth and large-scale developmental and economic investments, are at high risk from the impacts of climate change. ...  

What DSDS 2013 seeks to achieve: RK Pachauri

Global resources of various kinds are becoming scarce even as the demand for them is increasing rapidly as a result of population growth and significant increases in income. ...  

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. ...  

Link between women's rights and earth's future is often forgotten: former Finnish President

Lack of access to resources and energy is another key area of concern and another major impediment to success on the road to sustainable development, says Tarja Halonen, former President of Finland. ...  

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. ...  

Farooq Abdullah to attend World Future Energy Summit

Union New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah is among the leaders and government officials from key renewable energy markets scheduled to attend the sixth World Future Energy Summit (WFES), to be held in Abu Dhabi from January 15-17. WFES is a leading platform for renewable energy innovation and investment and is part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. ...  

'Need for integrating climate change in development policies'

RK Pachauri AGE: 71 Position: Director-General of The Energy and Resources Institute; chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 Contribution: Has led cutting edge research into the cause and effects of climate change which are presented in the form of IPCC Assessment Reports The commonly used definition of sustainable development embraces development that meets the needs of the present without compromising...  

'US model against very canon of sustainability'

Addressing the Finnish parliament in Helsinki on 'Sustainable Prosperity', Jairam Ramesh, currently minister of Rural Development, had strong words for the USA, "the maximum advocacy and championing is required in the USA which, even while being the locomotive for the world economy, is an exemplar of a way of life that goes against the very canons of sustainability." Talking of the multiple challenges posed by massive migrations of people, he...  

India needs green muscle at Rio 20

Rio de Janeiro in Brazil will have a different kind of carnival this year. From June 20 to 22, the city will host the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which is expected to bring together heads of states, ministers, senior officials, representatives from international organisations, civil society leaders and environmentalists. Since the conference is a 20th year follow-up of the most famous environmental meeting held in the recent decades"the...  

Schwarzenegger congratulates Abhishek on Twitter

New Delhi: Hollywood superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger failed to turn up at an event to present Abhishek Bachchan an award for helping create a greener environment, but has congratulated him for the honour. "Congrats on the Green Globe, @juniorbachchan. More celebrities should be pumping up green progress. I'll be back, and we should get together," Schwarzenegger wrote on his Twitter page Friday morning. The 64-year-old, former governor of California, was here...