Climate Change

UN climate panel agrees to reforms, Pachauri stays

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN

Publication Date: 
15/10/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, R K Pachauri, IPCC, South Korea, India
Fisheries

Horrific conditions on trawlers

When environmental campaigners began tracking a hi-tech South Korean trawler off the coast of West Africa, they were looking for proof of illegal fishing of dwindling African stocks.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Fisheries, South Korea, Workers, Marine Fisheries, Human Rights
Climate Change

South Korea To Push Firms To Meet Greenhouse Gas Cut Goals

South Korea said on Tuesday it planned to require 374 local companies to meet energy-saving and greenhouse gas reduction targets set by the government.

The government will set the goals for 2012 in discussions with the companies by September 2011, officials of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said by telephone.

The 374 companies including Samsung Electronics Co Ltd produced 361 million metr

Publication Date: 
29/09/2010
Cheon Jong-Woo
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
South Korea, Green House Gases, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change
Climate Change

IPCC in for change of climate

Big changes are expected as the global body acts on review committee

Publication Date: 
15/09/2010
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
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Tags:
IPCC, Climate Change, South Korea, Himalaya, Glaciers, Glacial Melt
Land

Posco relief package announced, but protesters defiant

The Orissa government

Publication Date: 
09/07/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, POSCO, People, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Iron And Steel Industry, South Korea, Orissa (Odisha), Jagatsinghpur (D), Indian Express (New Delhi)
Economy

Asia Economic Monitor 2010

ADB has upgraded its 2010 growth forecast for the 14 economies of
emerging East Asia to an aggregate 8.1 percent from the 7.7 percent
projected in the former Asian Development Outlook 2010, published in
April.

Publication Date: 
30/06/2010
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Asia, India, Economy, Trade, Imports, Exports, China, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, Economic Development
Air Pollution

Air quality index (AQI): methodology & applications for public awareness in cities

The air quality index (AQI) is an "index" determined by calculating the degree of pollution in the city (as an average) or at the monitoring point and includes five main pollutants

Publication Date: 
30/06/2010
Sarath Guttikunda
Simple Interactive Models for Better Air Quality
Tags:
Urban Air Quality, Air Pollution, Air Quality Monitoring, Ozone, Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx), Carbon Monoxide, China, France, Finland, South Korea
Peace And Disarmament

India, South Korea to begin negotiations on nuclear deal

IN A move that will increase the country

Publication Date: 
19/06/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power Plants, Nuclear Trade, Peace And Disarmament, Nuclear Proliferation, South Korea, India, Economic Times (New Delhi)
Land

Films on Poverty & Environment

Publication Date: 
15/06/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, POSCO, Iron And Steel Industry, South Korea, Orissa (Odisha), Jagatsinghpur (D), New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Fisheries

Conservation loses to trade interests at CITES meeting

Defying predictions for a drawn-out battle, parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species rejected a bid to ban cross-border trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, the Rolls Royce of the species, early at their meeting in Doha during the last two weeks of March.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2010
Bridges
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Tags:
CITES, Fisheries, Marine Fisheries, Trade, Endangered Species, Imports, China, Japan, South Korea, United States Of America (US), European Union (EU)

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