Poverty

Paths to 2015: MDG priorities in Asia and the Pacific

There are only five years left to reach 2015 in achieving the MDGs. World leaders are once again gathering at the United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting on the MDGs in September 2010 in New York to assess some of the likely outcomes on present trends, identify some of the weakest areas of performance, and identify priorities for accelerated action.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
UNESCAP
Tags:
Poverty, Food Security, Asia, India, Health, Infrastructure Development, Economic Development, Finance, Food Prices, Child Health, Sanitation, Malnutrition
Climate Change

Is the climate right for Pleistocene rewilding? Using species distribution models to extrapolate climatic suitability for mammals across continents

Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly used for extrapolation, or predicting suitable regions for species under new geographic or temporal scenarios. However, SDM predictions may be prone to errors if species are not at equilibrium with climatic conditions in the current range and if training samples are not representative.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Orien M. W. Richmond, Jay P. McEntee, Robert J. Hijmans & et al
PLoS ONE
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Mammals, Climate Change, Elephant, Asia, Africa, Lion, N C America, Invasive Alien Species, Climate Adaptation, Wildlife, Migration
Animal Care

Biggest plant in Asia to produce cheese from goat milk

A plant producing cheese from goat milk will start production at Khajuraho in Chhattarpur district from first week of September. This will be the first and biggest plant in Asia and the cheese produced here will be exported to European countries. Agreements to this effect have already been signed. 300 persons will get direct employment at the plant.

Publication Date: 
27/08/2010
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Tags:
Goats, Animal Care, Milk, Madhya Pradesh, Asia, Milk Products, Bundelkhand, Chhatarpur (D), Sagar (D)
Forests

The Green Trail

It is said that for a nation to be able to breathe, it must have at least 33 per cent of its area covered by forests. By that measure, India looks to be in trouble, with a total forest cover of 21.02 per cent, according to the India State of Forest Report 2009 put out by the Ministry of Environment & Forests.

Publication Date: 
22/08/2010
Pallavi Chakravorty
Business World (Kolkata)
Tags:
India, Forests, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), World Bank, China, Asia, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Manipur, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), Madhya Pradesh, Climate Change, Green House Gases
Economy

Asia's middle class will help rebalance economy: ADB

Asia

Publication Date: 
20/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asia, Consumption Patterns, Economic Development, Poverty
Economy

India's middle class drives consumption, growth: ADB

NEW DELHI: Even as innovative and cheaply priced products targeted at India's booming middle class are helping to spur domestic consumption and growth, this segment of the population remains vulnerable to economic shocks and carefully calibrated policy measures will be needed to sustain income gains in the longer-term, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said.

In a special chapter of

Publication Date: 
20/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Economy, Poverty, Consumption Patterns, Infrastructure Development, Economic Development, Asia
Air Pollution

Pollution threat in Asia

ANDREW JACOBS

Three lakh, forty thousand people in India and China die each year from cardiovascular and respiratory dis eases that can be traced to noxious emissions

Publication Date: 
12/08/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Asia, Atmospheric Brown Clouds, Environmental Health, Health Effects, Air Pollution, UN
Air Pollution

Russian fires may melt Arctic ice

Oslo: Smoke from forest fires smothering Moscow adds to health problems of

Publication Date: 
11/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Russia, Arctic, Forest Fires, Air Pollution, Atmospheric Brown Clouds, Climate Change, Health Effects, UNEP, Asia, Amazon
Climate Change

Rice yields in tropical/subtropical Asia exhibit large but opposing sensitivities to minimum and maximum temperatures

Production of rice will slow down as temperatures increase in rice-growing areas with continued climate change warns this new study published in latest edition of PNAS. Is based an analysis of 6 years of data from the major rice-growing countries in Asia.

See Also

Report: A framework for adapting Indian agriculture
www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/299905

Publication Date: 
09/08/2010
Jeffrey R. Vincent, Jarrod R. Welcha, Maximilian Auffhammer & et al
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Agriculture, Asia, Climate Change, Solar Radiation, Rice, Global Warming, India, China, Climate Impacts
Environment

Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2010

Developing Asia's rapidly expanding middle class is likely to assume the traditional role of the US and Europe as primary global consumers and help rebalance the global economy, says a report on Asia

Publication Date: 
31/07/2010
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Asia, Environment, Consumption Patterns, Poverty, Developing Countries, Education, Women, Child Health, Health Care, AIDS, Malaria, Energy, Governance, Climate Change, India

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