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of people and groups working for human rights and sustainable
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Goal 7 specifies the international commitment to ensuring environmental sustainability, by targeting the reversing of loss of environmental resources, halving the proportion of people without sanitation and sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015, and achieving significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020. Progress towards this goal is measured by factors such as the proportion of land area covered by forests, extent of protected areas for maintaining biological diversity, energy efficiency (in terms of GDP per unit of energy use), per capita carbon dioxide emissions, and also the proportion of the population with access to improved drinking water, sanitation, and secure tenure.
31-12-2008
The year 2008 has been one of the most devastating ever in terms of both human and economic loss. According to a German insurance company, climate change has boosted the destructive power of natural disasters, causing Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, earthquakes in Pakistan and floods in India.
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Image: Nature's fury / Photo credit: AFP
30-12-2008
A team of researchers from China and the US has observed that change in the Asian monsoon cycle could be the result of human-induced climate change. They reached this conclusion after the analysis of cave deposits found at Wanxiang Cave in West China.
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Image: Cave deposits can yield clues to climate change and monsoon strength/ Photo credit: Flickr
18-12-2008
Twenty-four years after a toxic gas leak killed thousands in Bhopal, Reuters correspondent Alistair Scrutton walks through the plant site. Talking to many survivors he learns about their painful experiences and finds that the place continues to pose health hazards for the people.
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Image: Alistair Scrutton is chief correspondent in India for Reuters/ Photo credit: Reuters
08-12-2008
While India makes a mark on the world stage with an impressive nuclear energy programme, there is also a tagging concern relating to a not-so-comfortable by-product – radioactive waste. The issue of management of such waste was highlighted at a workshop in the capital recently.
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Incredibly clean and green village
26-12-2008
In southern India, Madepally is the cleanest, safest and the most eco-friendly village. This transformation has come about owing to stupendous efforts of a group of women, who have taken upon themselves the role of peacemakers as well as executors of several other programmes related to village development.
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Cyclone-hit Myanmar monasteries need repair
21-11-2008
Cyclone Nargis had destroyed hundreds of monasteries that played an important social, cultural, educational and religious role in Myanmar. Many of them are in urgent need of repair to enable resumption of work.
02-01-2009
The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch a satellite to study the tropical atmosphere and its energy and hydrological cycles at the end of 2009. Jointly engineered by the French space agency CNES, the satellite data on weather modulates will be shared by the two countries.
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Image: Megha Tropiques satellite/ Photo credit: CNES website
31-12-2008
Conservation of biodiversity is crucial to human sustenance. TERI's latest publication A comprehensive handbook on biodiversity is a useful guide to explore the concept, its value, and linkages with ethnic communities.
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Image: Cover page of the book / Photo credit: TERI
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