The 14th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be held
December 1-12, 2008, at Poznan in Poland, is a little different from all the CoPs held so far in the 21st century. For the first time since the December 1997 CoP held in Japan, the world is moving to a negotiating mode.
Revised guidelines by Ministry of Mines for states on submission of mineral concession proposals. States can now recommend cases for areas not prospected if they are satisfied about the establishment of existence of mineralization.
The current Sarkozy-Fillon Government, acting presidency of the European Union's Council of Ministers, has chosen to massively promote nuclear power even to newcomer countries like Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.
Dow Chemicals admits in its 2008 annual report that present and future liabilities associated with asbestos cases against Union Carbide are expected at $2.2 billion. It takes on the burden of the Union Carbide liability on its books, even as it refuses to accept the same in the case of Union Carbide in India.
This study aimed to create a complete GIS base database for the entire sanctuary using ancillary data of the sanctuary as well as using recent technology i.e. Remote Sensing and GIS, habitat characterization pattern of Barnadi WLS, create a decision support system (DSS) of Barnadi WLS using geo-informatics and analyze the change detection of habitat pattern in Barnadi WLS.
