Environment

Global goals and the environment: progress and prospects

This report provides a comprehensive overview of progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7, Ensuring Environmental Sustainability, based on official indicators and data.

Publication Date: 
27/05/2015
Laszlo Pinter, Dora Almassy, Kate Offerdahl, Sarah Czunyi
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Tags:
Environment, Sustainable Development, Carbon Dioxide, Ozone Layer, Water Resources, Biodiversity, Marine Ecosystems, Drinking Water, Sanitation, India, Global, Slums, Economic Development
Sanitation

Living in slum: Where money can’t get you enough drinking water

Bhashantek slum residents are paying five times higher than the other Dhaka city dwellers pay for getting minimum facilities of sanitation and waste management.

Publication Date: 
26/05/2015
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Sanitation, Water Supply, Drinking Water, Bangladesh, Slums, Toilets, Waste Disposal, Solid Waste, South Asia
Energy

Australian solar company lights India's slums with portable lamps

CANBERRA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- An Australian company lighting India's slums with solar energy is providing a solution to the problem of deadly air pollution in India's poorest areas.

Publication Date: 
26/05/2015
Shanghai Daily (China)
Tags:
Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, India, Slums, Air Pollution, Kerosene, Indoor Air Pollution
Habitat And Urbanisation

State to create Aadhaar-based database of all slum rehab beneficiaries

Move aimed at ensuring no beneficiary can avail of free or concessional housing more than once.

Publication Date: 
25/05/2015
Manasi Phadke
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Slums, Rehabilitation, Housing, Habitat And Urbanisation
Natural Disasters

Disaster management plan for Chennai to be ready soon

Will have a list of low-lying areas, dilapidated buildings, ham radios

Publication Date: 
18/05/2015
Aloysius Xavier Lopez
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Tamil Nadu, Disaster Management, Chennai (T), Buildings, Slums, Natural Disasters
Climate Change

Dhaka slum dwellers among most vulnerable to climate change

The government should formulate a policy for bettering water and sanitation services in slums and coordinating relevant non-government organisations' activities, speakers told a workshop yesterday.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2015
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Slums, Water Supply, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Health, Diarrhoea, Cholera, Floods
Climate Change

Climate change and health vulnerability in informal urban settlements in the Ethiopian Rift Valley

Climate change in Ethiopia is occurring against a backdrop of rapid population growth and urbanization, entrenched poverty and a heavy burden of disease, and there is little information on specific health risks with which to approach adaptation planning and strengthen adaptive capacity.

Publication Date: 
17/05/2015
Hilary Bambrick, Stefano Moncada, Marie Briguglio
Environmental Research Letters
1-13
Tags:
Climate Change, Health Effects, Ethiopia, Slums, Urbanisation, Urban Habitat, Poverty, Urban Sanitation, Open Defecation, Toilets, Waterborne diseases, Malnutrition, Climate Adaptation, Africa
Solid Waste

Slum kids show the way to garbage disposal

Children and youth have come together to install tri-colour community dustbins in slums of Berhampur of Odisha for proper segregation and disposal of solid wastes.

Publication Date: 
12/05/2015
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Waste Disposal, Slums, Municipal Corporation, Sanitation, Solid Waste
Habitat And Urbanisation

Govt rules against displacing slum dwellers

Asks DUSIB To Focus On In Situ Rehabilitation; To Be Tried First In 15 Slums In Sultanpuri And Hari Nagar

Publication Date: 
11/05/2015
Ambika Pandit
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Rehabilitation, Slums, Displacement, Land, Housing, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Habitat And Urbanisation
Sanitation

Railways asked to identify sites for mobile toilets near slums

The National Green Tribunal has directed Railways and Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) to identify precise locations for installation of mobile toilets near slum clusters adjoining rai

Publication Date: 
01/05/2015
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Slums, Toilets, Waste Disposal, Rail Transport, Sanitation

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