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Environment & Development: Making Sense of Predicament of the Developing Countries
Our only abode – the Earth — is understood to be facing a serious crisis of survival. In the process of evolution, the human race has reached a stage when,armed with the prowess of science and technology, it has considerably transformed our living environment.The mindless ‘developmental’ spree across the globe is now seriously threatening our fragile essential ecological processes. It seems the humankind is facing one of the biggest tests for striking a judicious balance between developmental needs and environmental imperatives.
Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity A retrospective analysis in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan countries
This paper looks at the progress made in the implementation of the CBD and 2010 targets in the eight countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan. The paper was commissioned by ICIMOD, an inter-governmental institution mandated for the region, as one of its activities in support of the CBD and the International Year of Biodiversity 2010. Using the national reports to the CBD as the primary source, the paper examines the progress made by the countries in implementing the Convention.
Threats to the World Eco-system: A Role for the Social Scientists
This paper seeks to identify some of the major threats to our fragile eco-system through human actions. We have sought to highlight that since these threats to our composite ecological heritage are global in nature, our responses shall have to be at the global level. We have tried to analyse a role the social scientists can exercise in response to these threats. We have merely shown possible responses within their professional disciplines. Can they play an activist’s role?
Making Sense of Post-2012 Climate Change Regulatory Process: Some Reflections
Professor Bharat Desai's presentation - Making Sense of Post-2012 Climate Change Regulatory Process: Some Reflections
Forests, International Protection
The issue of forests is related to the entire range of environmental and development issues, including the right to socio-economic development on a sustainable basis.All types of forests embody complex and unique ecological processes which are the basis for their present and potential capacity to provide resources to satisfy human needs as well as environmental values, and as such their sound management and conservation is of international concern for the protection and preservation of environment.2Forests play an important role in meeting energy requirement
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.
South Asia Conference on Environmental Justice: The Proceedings
This publication documents the proceedings of the South Asia Conference on Environmental Justice, held last 24–25 March 2012 at Bhurban, Pakistan. The conference brought together chief justices, senior members of the judiciary, and other legal stakeholders in South Asia, to highlight environmental challenges in the subregion, and devise ways to strengthen the implementation of environmental justice and ensure compliance with environmental laws.
Briefing Note on the High-Level meeting on the Rule of Law and the Environment
The High-Level Meeting on the Rule of Law and the Environment took place on 17 February 2013 at the UN Office in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting, which was held on the eve of the 27th session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC27/GMEF) of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) scheduled to convene from 18-22 February 2013, was attended by high-ranking representatives of the judicial, legal and auditing professions, among others.
The Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases: Annotation to the Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases
The effort to formulate this separate set of rules is a response to the long felt need for more specific rules that can sufficiently address the procedural concerns that are peculiar to environmental cases. Most of the provisions included here are therefore remedies that are directed to the actual difficulties encountered at present by concerned government agencies, corporations, practitioners, people’s organizations, non-governmental organizations, and public-interest groups handling environmental cases.
The EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board at Twenty-five: An Overview of the Board’s Procedures, Guiding Principles, and Record of Adjudicating Cases
This article discusses the history of EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board, explains how it operates, and summarizes its docket and adjudication results.