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  • Sri Lanka seeks international assistance as monsoon death toll reaches 113

    SRI LANKA, 2017/05/29 Death toll from recent landslides and floods, triggered by monsoon, in Sri Lanka has reached 113, as the island country has sought international assistance. The national-run disaster management center, while updating the death toll from an before figure of 91, said on Saturday that nearly 100 people were still missing next the worst torrential downpours since 2003 drenched the tropical Indian Ocean island country.

  • India should follow China to find a way out of the woods on saving forest people

    CHINA, 2016/07/23 There was a time at the same time as the area leading up to the village of Usku Dadjo in the national of Jharkhand, east India, was dense forest. But because residents did not have the right to manage their land, the forest was steadily degraded by outsiders. Presently, only sand and scrub remain. Last year, the community started to reclaim traditional lands using India’s groundbreaking 2006 Forest Rights Act. While the community has not from presently on received any response from the government, residents have put up signs asserting their right to the land. The struggle of communities like Usku Dadjo is linked to world efforts to conserve forests, reduce poverty and achieve development with dignity for marginalised people.

  • No Winners Or Losers: PM Modi On Paris Deal

    INDIA, 2015/12/14 World leaders on Sunday welcomed the climate transaction to limit world warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius with Prime Minister Narendra Modi terming the landmark climate change transaction reached in Paris on Saturday as the victory of "climate justice". The agreement demonstrates the collective wisdom of world leaders as there are no winners or losers in the outcome, Modi said. "Climate justice has won and we are all working towards a greener next," the Prime Minister tweeted.

  • Eco-solutions for a sustainable Asia

    JAPAN, 2015/12/02 Asia is a large family that varies across and within its regions, with a plethora of systems all bumping against one an extra. But one thing Asia’s constituents have in common is the challenge posed by the transition to green increase. That challenge as well presents enormous opportunities. Japanese farmer Tepe Suzuki holds a duck in his organic heirloom rice field in the town of Isumi, Chiba province, east of Tokyo, Japan, 15 July 2008. Since the industrial revolution, world material wealth has dramatically expanded. Though the development paradigm has brought prosperity, it has caused severe environmental consequences, inclunding climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. The existing development paradigm is not just environmentally unsustainable and infeasible, but as well appears removed from the ultimate purpose of improvment— happiness.

  • Renewables to reduce hydrocarbon use by more than 25% by 2025

    PAKISTAN, 2015/12/02 While renewables currently only generate 1-2% of the country’s energy, Pakistan is committed to using more solar and wind sources to reduce its dependence on hydrocarbons Pakistan has faced severe and repeated energy shortages that have left rural areas without power for up to 20 hours a day, and have even forced local factories to close down due to highly diminished output. This is largely because at present, 87% of the country’s energy comes from hydrocarbons such as imported coal, oil, and gas – a dependence which Pakistani energy officials hope to reduce to 60% by 2025 through the use of alternative energy sources. Although Pakistan currently generates only 1-2% of its energy from renewable energy sources, it is committed to making solar and wind energy a larger component of its future power bank. The Pakistani Federal Minister for Water and Power, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, recently affirmed that the government welcomes renewable energy projects. “Pakistan offers good opportunities for investment in renewable energy as the country is blessed with vast natural resources,” he told Sabah News. Following talks in early September with a delegation from Zorlu Energy Pvt Limited – the largest solar company in Turkey – it was announced that Zurlo would make a 200 megawatt (MW) investment in solar power and a 100MW investment in wind power.

  • COP21 Roundtable Ethiopia, Guyana & Pakistan turn climate change concerns into action

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  • Climate change sparks tension in India’s tea gardens

    INDIA, 2015/05/07 Usha Ghatowar smiles wryly when asked about the pay she earns picking leaves at a colonial-era tea garden in Assam. “Do you think Rs.3,000 are enough when your monthly expenses can be double that?” she mumbles, as she puts on her “jaapi” hat of woven bamboo and palm leaves and takes a sip of tea from a steel mug. As the women workers around Ghatowar nod in agreement the heavens open — it has started raining heavily in recent days after three largely dry months.

  • Hydropower project killing river tourism in Nepal

    NEPAL, 2014/03/11 The one-time thriving rafting business on the Marshyangdi River has greatly suffered next the construction of mid-Marshyangdi Hydropower project, local tourism entrepreneurs lamented. With the river water used for generating hydro power, hotels on the riverside, which depended on tourists enthusiastic about canoeing and rafting on the turbulent, fast-flowing waters of the river, have suffered a lot. Most of them have downed their shutters as the river presently tamed for generating hydropower has ceased to lure tourists for rafting and other water related recreational activities.

  • India evacuated half a million people as massive Cyclone Phailin

    INDIA, 2013/10/13 ndia evacuated half a million people as massive Cyclone Phailin closed in on the impoverished east coast Saturday, with winds by presently uprooting trees and tearing into flimsy homes. The storm packed gusts of up to 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour) as it churned over the Bay of Bengal, making it potentially the majority powerful cyclone to hit the area since 1999, at the same time as additional than 8,000 died, the Indian weather office said. “The very severe cyclonic storm Phailin is moving menacingly towards the coast,” appropriate relief commissioner for the national of Orissa, Pradipta Mohapatra told AFP.

  • Maldives in adapting to climate change

    MALDIVES, 2013/10/12 The World Bank has expressed the urgent need for concerted efforts to support the Maldives in adapting to climate change, due to a projected 115 centimetres of sea level rise by 2090. This, in addition to other climate impacts posing “disastrous consequences” for livelihoods and health, were noted in a recently released scientific statement that “demands bold action presently”. The World Bank’s 2012 Turn Down the Heat statement concluded a 4 degree Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) world temperature increase is expected by the end of the 21st century unless concerted action is taken instantly.
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