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Environment and climate change gets short shrift in India’s budget

Soumya Sarkar, Juhi Chaudhary & Sapna Gopal Allocations for renewable energy and environment in India’s federal budget have left both the clean energy sector and conservationists unhappy As the Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rose in Parliament to present the last full budget of the prese

Humans need to learn to co-exist with wildfires. Here’s how we can do it.

Kendra R Chamberlain An assessment concept called the home ignition zone (HIZ) helps homeowners determine how vulnerable their home is to wildfire by looking at factors such as building materials, vegetation and debris In 1992, the city of Wenatchee, Washington, experienced a devastating wildfire th

Indonesian ruling rings alarms over criminalization of environmental defenders

Hans Nicholas Jong A court in Indonesia has sentenced an anti-mine activist to 10 months in jail on a rarely used charge of promoting communism. The ruling is just the latest in a series of controversial prosecutions of environmental activists and protesters based on draconian or obscure laws, which

Impact Investing – International Development’s New Holy Grail?

Jindra Cekan Admitting failure, posting failure reports are awfully rare in international development, but how bad is it? There are so many things I love about the private sector such as Forbes 18 Dec Quote of the Day: “You’re going to be wrong a fair amount of times. So the issue is, how do y

Livestock vaccination campaign in South Sudan in jeopardy

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking $7.5 million to roll out a critically needed emergency livestock vaccination campaign in South Sudan. FAO aims to protect nearly 9 million animals (30 percent of the country’s livestock) – scaling up from 6 million in 2017 –

Indian Cities need to have River Pollution Abatement Plans and Task Forces

Cities need to increase treatment, recycling and reuse of wastewater to reduce the amount of untreated wastewater discharged into freshwater bodies by at least 50 per cent by 2030. Ever since the new government at centre came to power, the name of the Ministry of Water Resources was changed to give

Here come the megacities

John Vidal By 2100, the world’s population centers will have shifted to Asia and Africa with only 14 of the 101 largest cities then in Europe or the Americas.   The 1960 street map of Lagos, Nigeria, shows a small coastal city surrounded by a few semi-rural African villages. Paved roads quick

Green College: Education with a Purpose

Dasharathi Behera The Green College in Odisha is leading by example in the field of rural innovation and sustainable livelihoods. Sustainable living is at the core of the ethos that Green College seeks to promote. The students here are trained to manage and conserve natural resources and develop mea

Corporate CEO’s earn a workers lifetime salary in less than a week

Richest 1 percent bagged 82 percent of wealth created last year – poorest half of humanity got nothing Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no in

How blockchain is strengthening tuna traceability to combat illegal fishing

In a significant development for global fisheries, blockchain technology is now being used to improve tuna traceability to help stop illegal and unsustainable fishing practices in the Pacific Islands tuna industry. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Australia, Fiji and New Zealand, in partnership with

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