Health

‘India accounts for 60% of new leprosy cases in world’

PATNA: Dermatologists on Sunday stressed on the need to create awareness about leprosy and disintegrate it from other public health programmes.

Publication Date: 
08/01/2018
Times Of India (Patna)
Tags:
Bihar, Leprosy, WHO, India, Brazil, Nepal, Angola, Jharkhand, Health
Climate Change

Harnessing the potential of the private sector to deliver REDD+

Partnership between the public and private sectors can offer advantages to all stakeholders in REDD+, providing finance, technology and project skills. Private sector companies may play various roles in REDD+, but there must be a business case for them to do so.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2018
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
Tags:
REDD, Private Sector, Public Sector, Green House Gases, Finance, Brazil, Colombia
Climate Change

Agriculture-driven deforestation in the tropics from 1990–2015: emissions, trends and uncertainties

Limited data exists on emissions from agriculture-driven deforestation, and available data are typically uncertain. In this paper, we provide comparable estimates of emissions from both all deforestation and agriculture-driven deforestation, with uncertainties for 91 countries across the tropics between 1990 and 2015. Uncertainties associated with input datasets (activity data and emissions factors) were used to combine the datasets, where most certain datasets contribute the most. This method utilizes all the input data, while minimizing the uncertainty of the emissions estimate.

Publication Date: 
28/12/2017
Sarah Carter, Martin Herold, Valerio Avitabile & et al
Environmental Research Letters
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Tags:
Agriculture, Land Use, Tropical Forests, Deforestation, Climate Change, Africa, South America, REDD, India, China, Brazil, Green House Gases
Health

Baccy to the future

SMOKING is a scourge. It is the leading preventable cause of cancer and kills over 7m people annually, mostly in low- and middle-income countries.

Publication Date: 
23/12/2017
Economist (London)
Tags:
Health, Smoking, Tobacco, United States Of America (US), New York, WHO, Brazil, Singapore, Thailand
Forests

Brazilian activist wins international forest champion award

A Brazilian activist who helped thousands of people in the Amazon rainforest to use their land sustainably won an international environmental award on Wednesday.

Publication Date: 
21/12/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Forests, Brazil, Environmentalists, Awards, Land, Amazon
Environment

India among deadliest countries for land, environment rights defenders: Amnesty

India is among the deadliest countries for defenders of rights related to land, territory, environment, rights NGO Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
06/12/2017
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Land, Environment, Human Rights, NGO, Brazil, Colombia, Philippines
Agriculture

Crop ecology, cultivation and uses of cactus pear

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges the world must meet today and in the future. Prolonged droughts and desertification are among the issues faced by many countries, especially in Africa and Asia, where the rural poor and smallholders are most heavily affected.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2017
P. Inglese, C. Mondragon, C Nefzaoui & et al
FAO
Tags:
Agriculture, Dryland Farming, Climate Change, Wasteland Development, Fodder, Livestock, India, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, Nutrition, Medicinal Plants
Energy

Developing Nations’ Solar Capacity Increases 54% In 2016, Finds BNEF Climatescope

Across 71 emerging markets a total of 34 GW worth of new solar capacity came online in 2016, an increase of 54% year-over-year and has more than tripled in three years, according to new figures fro

Publication Date: 
29/11/2017
Clean Technica
Tags:
Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Developing Countries, South Africa, Kenya, Chile, Vietnam, India, Uruguay, Brazil, Jordan, Mexico, Africa
Forests

Global firms accused of importing timber linked to Amazon massacre

Greenpeace alleges 12 companies continued to trade with Madeireira Cedro Arana after its founder was accused of ordering torture and murder
Illegal logging seized in Brazil.

Publication Date: 
23/11/2017
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Amazon, Illegal Trade, Brazil
Energy

Least developed countries report 2017

UNCTAD’s Least Developed Countries Report focuses on transformational energy access for the LDCs, where 62 per cent of people have no access to electricity, compared with 10 per cent across other developing countries.

Publication Date: 
22/11/2017
UNCTAD
Tags:
Energy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Power Transmission, Developing Countries, Electricity, Infrastructure Development, Household Energy, Renewable Energy, Poverty, India, China, South Africa, Brazil, Russia

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