World largest clean development mechanism (CDM) Forestry Project takes off in Himachal
June 26, 2011 1 Comment
New Delhi: A silent but significant revolution is taking place in mid and high hill ranges of Himachal Pradesh where community participation in watershed management programmes is making strong headway for success of world’s largest and India’s first clean development mechanism (CDM) project registered for carbon credits by the United Nations under which the world bank will buy carbon credits [...]
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Dilip Ghosh writes: A 45,000 crore rupees huge programme to increase the country’s green cover is going to be launched soon. The 10 year long programme named Green India Mission, GIM after a preparatory phase of one year will get going from 2012. Addressing a series of functions on the occasion of the World Environment Day on 5th June this year, the [...]
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A.N. Khan writes: Forest means an extensive area so well covered with trees that they serve to modify the whole biological character of the area even the climate. If the tree cover is too irregular and open to do this, the area is popularly called a woodland; if the trees are planted mainly for their fruit – an [...]
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Kalpana Palkhiwala: Environmentally Sensitive Zones are areas with identified environmental resources having “Incomparable Values” which require special attention for their conservation. Ecological sensitivity is defined as the imminent possibility of permanent and irreparable loss of extant life forms from the world, or significant damage to the natural processes of evolution and speciation. This means loss of [...]
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Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: Aerosols influence climate indirectly by changing cloud properties and precipitation and hence can have a profound impact on the hydrological cycle. Among the various aerosol types, black carbon aerosols have greater impact because of the high absorption of solar radiation. Hence it is essential that measurements of black carbon aerosols from ground, [...]
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Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: The National Mission for a Green India is one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change. The Green India Mission recognizes that climate change phenomena will seriously affect and alter the distribution, type and quality of natural resources of the country and the associated livelihoods of the [...]
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Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: World Forestry day is celebrated in forests around the World on 21 March each year. This is the day of the autumn equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. This day commemorates the contribution and value of forests and forestry to the community. Management of Forest has been recognized in the Earth summit at [...]
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Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: Goraiya, the house-sparrow, the little sweetie in countless poetry, lyrics, songs and folk-songs and paintings, is today facing a crisis of survival. Its been several years now that we miss the familiar “chi-chi-chi” every morning and the lovely sight of Goraiyas dancing around. Following inspiration from a retired forest officer in Gujarat, a movement is on to save [...]
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Bangalore: In a meeting organised with the Karnataka Urban Development Minister Mr. Suresh Kumar on 23 February 2011 at the behest of Mr. Kodihalli Chandrashekar of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, representatives of various movements, networks and voluntary organisations opposed to water privatisation were present. A major reason for this meeting was the call made [...]
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New Delhi: Maharana Pratap sagar popularly known as Pong Dam lake , The largest man made wet land of Northern India has witnessed the arrival of around 1.30 lakhs migratory birds of about 90 species from Siberia and Central Asia during this winter . The final number of migratory birds is likely to touch record number of 1.5 lakh this year as the surface water temperature of the [...]
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Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: About 25% of the country’s geographical area is affected by desertification. The Space Application Centre in 2007 brought out the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas which shows 81.45 million hectare land in the country has turned into arid, semi-arid or dry sub humid region. Desertification results in decline in water table and [...]
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Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: Mangroves are plants that survive high salinity, tidal regimes, strong wind velocity, high temperature and muddy anaerobic soil – a combination of conditions hostile for other plants. They are found in the inter-tidal zones of sheltered shores, estuaries, creeks, backwaters, lagoons, marshes and mud-flats. Mangrove forests are regarded as the most productive [...]
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Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi carried out a comprehensive environmental assessment of prominent industrial clusters in the country. Its aim was to identify polluted industrial clusters and prioritize planning needs for intervention to improve the quality of environment in these industrial clusters and the Nation as a whole. In all 88 [...]
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Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: Biodiversity as we see today is the outcome of over 3.5 billion years of evolutionary history, shaped by natural processes and increasingly, by the influence of humanbeings. Biodiversity forms the web of life of which man is an integral part and upon which he fully depends. Biodiversity is not distributed uniformly across [...]
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