NEWS & EVENTS

Emerging ripples in the environmental think-tank.

Did China use it for South China Islands-Plastics in Ocean.

Sep 12, 2016 | Author: Rajendra Shende

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged young people that nothing is ‘far-off any more in oceans’ when it comes to throwing plastics. And one day, all those plastics, may come back to us directly or indirectly. Newsle terre vol-9-issue-september-2016.pdf.pdf from TERRE Policy Centre

First Ever State in the World Becomes Fully Organic

Jul 25, 2016 | Author: Rajendra Shende

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In 2015, Sikkim fully implemented organic farming statewide, becoming India’s first “organic state”. The import of agrochemicals in banned. Possession of such chemicals is punished by law! 

Universal Membership of UNEA, Yes! But Universal Action?

Jun 10, 2016 | Author: Rajendra Shende

UNEP and now UNEA-what has changed? Yes,UNEA has universal membership. After all it is not only 193 governments that should act on these alarms,but 7.3 billions of us. May be UNEA needs to have 7.3 billion member-representatives? Newsle terre vol-6-issue-june-2016 from TERRE Policy Centre

Obama should have been there in person to sign the Paris climate deal. He preferred golf and the Queen

Apr 23, 2016 | Author: Rajendra Shende

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Obama preferred to play golf and be with the Queen when the world leaders gathered in his country to sign the pathbreaking climate agreement. He  should have been the first to sign the Climate Paris Agreement. Simply because the historic accord needs momentous start-up.

Murdering the Service Providers with Pesticides Guns.

Mar 01, 2016 | Author: Rajendra Shende

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$235bn and $577bn is the value of annual agricultural production assisted by pollinators like birds,butterflies,beetles and bats, says IPBES.And humans kill these animals by insecticides.

Une Nouvelle Vague de Garvitational et Changment de Climat

Feb 01, 2016 | Author: Rajendra Shende

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Le monde est déterminé à défier les théories économiques classiques pour le bénéfice de la planète.

Accueillons le Nouvel An , avec La Norme Nouvelle

Jan 02, 2016 | Author: Rajendra Shende

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Nous avons tous vu fin 2015 avec succès les négociations cli- matiques de Paris. Mais le succès dépendra de si les pays à pied ces pourparlers dans l’ère post-2015

Two C or Not Two C that is COP21 question.

Dec 02, 2015 | Author: Rajendra Shende

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Probably there is no other best-known and widely used phrase to express a dilemma and conundrum than “To be or not To be”!

Transfoming Material Greed into Moral Goals

Oct 11, 2015 | Author: Rajendra Shende

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September 2015 will go down in the history of 21st Century as a month when world leaders resolved to walk the road to the new world free of poverty and inequality. Newsle terre vol-10-issue-october-2015 from TERRE Policy Centre

Changing the History by Changing the Geography.

Sep 10, 2015 | Author: Rajendra Shende

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 He picked the spade and shovel thirty-five years back and started digging and building ‘johads’, the earthen dams,