Investing an additional $40 billion annually in the forestry sector can halve deforestation rates by 2030, increase rates of tree planting by about 140 per cent by the year 2050, and catalyse the creation of millions of new jobs, according to a report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Backed by the right kind of enabling policies, such an investment

It was 6am and the people were up to keep their tryst with the environment. Scores of people from all walks of life had gathered at India Gate on Sunday to participate in the walkathon organized by the ministry of environment on World Environment Day. Participants from as far afield as China had come to attend the walk.

Making a case for an economic growth that

With the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) having, for the first time, named India as the global host of World Environment Day 2011 (WED) on June 5, the thrust has been on how soon the country can transit towards a green economy.

A first step towards this was taken with an exhibition of non-timber products being held at the Dilli Haat here.

Two days ahead of World Environment Day, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh planted a number of saplings over a vast area of nearly 48 acres at Jaunapur which is fast emerging as the 41st city forest in the Capital.

The forest in the Aravallis in South Delhi is being developed as per the United Nations Environment Programme specifications.

Global consumption of natural resources could almost triple to 140 billion tons a year by 2050 unless nations take drastic steps, the United Nations warned on May 12. A UN environment panel said the world cannot sustain the tearaway rate of use of minerals, ores and fossil and plant fuels.

Thiruvananthapuram It is an issue that has got the usually fractious polity in Kerala on one platform. Cutting across party lines, the state

bio-invasion:The exotic seaweed seen on Krusadai Island.
CHENNAI: Coral colonies in the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve are facing serious threat from an invasive seaweed, which is spreading rapidly, say marine researchers, who are worried about the phenomenon.

The bio-invasion by the sea weed, Kappaphycus alvarezii, was spread over only 10 square metres in 2008 in three islands

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