Full coverage: Environment

31.08.2007

30.08.2007 Greenpeace activists staged a “shame-HCL” protest at the company’s headquarters in Noida, India, demanding that the company make clear and binding commitments to green its operations.

29.08.2007 Greenpeace criticized the decision of the India power ministry to not introduce a legislation to ban the light bulb in India by 2010. Reacting to the ministry's statement that a legislation to ban the light bulb in India is premature, Greenpeace pointed out the government of Ghana for taking key measures to implement a complete ban on the light bulb in the country.

28.08.2007 Kegagalan Pemerintah untuk menghentikan semburan lumpur di Sidoarjo telah mengakibatkan makin parahnya kondisi di kota itu. Hal itu terungkap dari persidangan Gugatan Walhi terhadap Lapindo.

27.08.2007 According to the UN ChildrenÂ’s Agency (UNICEF), the rains and cyclone in Pakistan have displaced more than 377,000 people. Tens of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) are now living in makeshift shelters, or in tents provided by the aid agencies.

26.08.2007 NEW YORK, Aug 25 (OneWorld) - Huge fires burning forests, devastating floods, dark clouds of industrial smoke, traffic jams, a million cars, deadly earthquakes, melting ice on mountain tops, traffic noise, and crowded malls. That is what you see when the show starts: it's called "The 11th Hour."

24.08.2007 Local water activistsÂ’ group Forum for Water and Sanitation (NFWS), Nepal, said the lack of laws enabling equal rights to water has long been a key problem and blamed the poor water management, political neglect and the current legal framework for water scarcity.

22.08.2007 Tigers have become few and far between in IndiaÂ’s specially designated national parks and sanctuaries. A flourishing illegal trade in tiger parts mainly in China and East Asia has led to indiscriminate poaching in IndiaÂ’s protected tiger reserves.

21.08.2007 Greenpeace activists demand a law to govern e-waste management in the country and presented a reportin the Ministry of Information Technology, India, on ‘Extended Producer Responsibility in a non-OECD context’ which can be used as a basis for legislation to tackle the growing problem of e-waste .

20.08.2007 Bhutan, a country committed to environmental preservation is in dilemma as how to reconcile conservation, economic development in the era of rapid globalization. As per the law which says the country reserve 70 per cent of its land for 'green' cover, of which 60 per cent should be forests.

17.08.2007 Nepal has developed simple and cheap technologies that make the best of local resources and don't damage the environment. The new technologies have been indigenously designed, based on traditional skills and knowledge, and are cheap and easy to use and maintain.

17.08.2007 Brasilian hallituksen ilmoituksen mukaan Amazonin metsäkato on pienentynyt neljänneksellä elokuusta 2005 heinäkuuhun 2006. Hallituksen mukaan vähennys johtuu kansallisistaa toimista metsäkadon pysäyttämiseksi.

16.08.2007 Greenpeace India has released the Indian Guide to Greener electronics which ranks major Indian computer manufacturers on their green performance. The ranking shows that most Indian companies are yet to be at par with global brands.

16.08.2007 India plans to expand its oceanography research, tapping into the wealth of the little-explored Indian and Southern Oceans. Exploring these oceans could yield bounties in terms of information and resources. Both oceans play an important role in the formation of the Indian monsoon and could also harbour submerged deposits of copper, nickel, manganese and cobalt.

16.08.2007 Il 20% della popolazione mondiale, concentrata in 30 Paesi, deve fronteggiare problemi di carenza di acqua: una percentuale che entro il 2025 diventerà del 30% in 50 Paesi. Sono le cifre più significative fornite dalla Nazioni Unite sul fronte dell'emergenza acqua che è al centro della "Settimana mondiale dell'acqua" (World Water Week) in corso a Stoccolma dal 12-18 agosto. Gli esperti informano che sono 2,6 miliardi le persone nel mondo a non avere accesso a servizi sanitari adeguati e a dover fare i conti con le malattie che ne derivano come la diarrea che uccide 2 milioni di bambini ogni anno. Tra le questioni sul tappeto quella dei biocarburanti: la prospettiva è infatti che l'acqua possa essere sempre più impiegata in futuro per produrre i cereali per le bioenergie, invece che a sfamare le popolazioni.

14.08.2007 Indian organisation Kriti Film Club is inviting for the screening of two new documentaries at two different venues in New Delhi on 16 August 2007.

14.08.2007 Nobel laureate, Indian economist Amartya Sen, in his article talks about the eve of Independence Day 60 years back and the success and failures of India in the social, cultural and economic front during the period.

13.08.2007 WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (OneWorld) - The UN's recent decision to deploy a hybrid UN-African Union peacekeeping force to the war-torn region of Darfur, Sudan comes amid concerns that military might alone may not adequately address the fundamental causes of the conflict.

07.08.2007 Experts across the world will get together to debate and assess water challenges of the 21st century at the global World Water Week 2007, to be held at Stockholm from 12-18 August.

07.08.2007 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked the 62nd anniversary of the world’s first-ever atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima as a “powerful reminder” to halt nuclear proliferation and to make the world a safer place.