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Revealed: 91% of Karachi’s water unfit to drink

Zofeen T. Ebrahim Faced with leaky pipes, faulty treatment plants and illegal tapping, the government of Sindh is struggling to provide clean and safe water to Karachi’s galloping population In January, Mohammad Riaz, a chauffeur and father of five who lives in one of Karachi’s squatter colonies

What Cape Town can learn from Windhoek on surviving droughts

Dian Spear Cape Town is experiencing the worst drought in 100 years Human population growth, urbanisation, and climate change are all changing the world. To adapt, attitudes and behaviour must change and unsustainable attitudes and behaviours must shift. In addition, the social and political will to

Energy , Human Rights / 07/05/2017
Zero-Coal State Strategy and the ethical dilemma: wind power project in Canada

Mohammad Masoud Azimi In Ontario, the Ripley Wind power project ran into ethical and social confrontation with local communities Inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, the government of Canada set up its strategy for sustainable development in terms of clean energy as:

At a slow pace, G20 begins transition to low-carbon economy

G20 countries have stepped up green finance, but their investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the “well below 2 degree” warming limits set in the Paris Agreement will be missed by a wide margin, says this year’s “Brown to Green” Report from Climate Transparency. The “Br

We need more than just extra water to save the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia

Max Finlayson, Lee Baumgartner and Peter Gell After a long and contentious public debate, in 2012 Australia embarked on a significant and expensive water recovery program to restore the Murray-Darling Basin’s ecosystems. Despite general agreement that a certain amount of water should be reserve

Forests , Human Rights / 06/28/2017
India: Tribal leader dies in police custody – as tribe denounce harassment campaign

A leader of a tribe in India, which made headlines around the world when it won a David and Goliath battle against a British mining corporation, has died in police custody – following a violent police campaign of harassment and intimidation against activists. Bari Pidikaka of the Dongria Kondh tri

Cuba, the Urban Agricultural Pioneers

Cuba so drastically reformed its food system that it is best described as a revolution of organic urban agriculture. In the discourse of urban planning and management, Cuba is widely considered to be the pioneer of urban agriculture due to a unique political and social circumstance which necessitate

Aquaculture is main driver of mangrove losses

Dyna Rochmyaningsih Expanding aquaculture in South-East Asia over the last two decades has been the main driver of mangrove loss in the world, says a study published in PLOS One this month (June). The study, conducted by a team of scientists at Global Mangrove Watch (GMW), mapped the distribution

Clean energy for green environment

M Zakir Hossain Khan and Sifat E Rabb Clean energy will ensure the achievement of SDG 3 that has emphasised on ensuring healthy lives and promote well-being by reducing the public health damages caused by coal “The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we ca

Energy , Environment , Featured / 05/15/2017
Global Peatlands Initiative: Indonesia leading to Save the World’s Peat

Drained and burnt peatland is responsible for 5 per cent of anthropogenic carbon emissions Indonesia, the global peatland restoration leader, will reduce up to one gigaton of greenhouse gas emission The 2nd Global Peatlands Initiative Partner Meeting is attended by the Governments of Indonesia, Repu

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