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 NIGERIA

In line with its deregulation of the country's downstream oil industry, Nigeria is inviting bids to build independent oil refineries. The new private refine

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
Down to Earth
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Trade, Imports, Petrochemical Industry, Private Sector, Africa, Nigeria, United States Of America (US)
Poverty

 An uphill task

Sustainability still a long way off, says Worldwatch

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
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Environment, Global Warming, Diarrhoea, Emissions Trading, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Pneumonia, Environmental Health, Poverty, NGO, South Africa, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries
Poverty

SYL: Badal to file review petition

The Punjab government has decided to file a review petition over the Supreme Court's decision on the SYL issue. Advocate General of Punjab J. S. Mattewal said the government was already preparing a

Publication Date: 
19/01/2002
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Dams, Irrigation
Poverty

Punjab in a fix over SC ruling on SYL

The Supreme Court direction to the Punjab government to complete the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal within one year failing which it will be the responsibility of the Union government has put the

Publication Date: 
19/01/2002
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Dams, Irrigation
Poverty

Reports of land cave-in close to Hirehalla dam

Some area of the land close to the Hirehalla barrage is reported to have caved in though its not even three weeks since the barrage was inaugurated. If in the coming days the reservoir were to become

Publication Date: 
17/01/2002
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
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Dams, Irrigation
Poverty

 Never to be renewed reality

The world's highest energy consuming country, the us , has done little to promote renewable energy. Being one of the major emitters of heat trapping gases like carbon dioxide, the us would be

Publication Date: 
Monday, January 14, 2002
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Green House Gases, Renewable Energy, Energy Surveys, Fossil Fuels, United States Of America (US)
Poverty

 All gas

Negotiations over the past four years have diluted the already weak Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997. The protocol requires industrialised countries to reduce emissions of heat trapping gases like

Publication Date: 
Sunday, December 30, 2001
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Canada, Carbon Dioxide, Kyoto Protocol, Emissions Trading, Japan, Australia, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
Poverty

 Habitat crunch

Marauding elephants face villagers vendetta

Publication Date: 
14/11/2001
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Poverty

 Talking green

Participants at an international conference on forest management discuss ways to curb logging

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
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Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Wildlife Trade, Poaching, Indonesia
India

 Solving poverty

Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research Institute IRRI in the Philippines. His contribution to the global food security has e

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Plant Breeding, Rice, Malnutrition, Health Effects, Poverty, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Philippines, India, Developing Countries, Food Security

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