The South Asian sub-continent faces the worst brunt of climate change in years to come, scientists of the UN’s Inter-governmental panel on climate change have warned. The sub-continent faces a challenge that it can only surmount acting in cohesion. While the countries in the region — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka and India sketch their economic destinies and alleviate the endemic poverty in the subcontinent it now has to face the challenge of climate change.

AHMEDABAD: The recommendations for a cleaner and sustainable environment compiled at the Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad will be presented at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development called 'Rio +20,' which will be held in Rio de Janeiro in June. The recommendations at CEE have been developed by a team of around 80 children and youth from across the world at an event called 'Asia-Pacific UNEP TUNZA Children and Youth International Conference'.

Betwa Sharma in Durban: For 16-year-old Vineeth Udaya Kumar, from Lakshadweep, the stalemate in the UN climate talks is a sign that individuals need to come up with innovative ways to help arrest greenhouse gases so that the earth’s temperature does not rise above 2 degrees Celsius.

When the state forest department embarked on a project to make water hyacinth an economic resource, it did not know that with this weed, it was not only sowing seeds of women empowerment and clean ecology but also setting a milestone.
Seeing the successful run of Punjab’s project of converting the obnoxious weed into artistic handicraft items, compost and organic dye, the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEFSGP) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) wants to replicate it for the Yamuna river as well.

PANJIM: Minister for Environment Aleixo Sequeira Tuesday raised questions about the integrity of EIAs submitted by the mining companies and termed them as copy-paste jobs done by the companies.
The minister also claimed opposition to notification of the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger sanctuary by people from the area was making the government rethink on the issue.

A study commissioned by the Goa Government to examine the effects of open cast iron ore mining on environment in the State has revealed that the impact assessment reports filed by the mining companies were based on false data.

Sujeeth Kumar Dongre, convener of the Centre for Environment and Education (CEE), an NGO, commissioned by the State Government to carry out the study, revealed that prima

In June 2011 saw students of St.Mark's Sr.Sec.Public School,Meera Bagh take their zeal and vigour beyond the school premises.They participated in a five day event-GREEN HAAT-Knowledge Park at Dilli Haat from June 1 to June 5,2011.This event was organized by The Ministry of Environment and Forests along with United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) alongwith Centre of Environment Education(CEE).

From making slippers out of plastic water bottles to setting up small wind turbines to run computers in remote village schools, the Take Care Take Charge (TCTC) campaign has galvanized citizens across the country to devise effective green ideas that can power sustainable living.

Responding to the call for green ideas as part of Times of India-Garnier

AHMEDABAD: Kankaria and Vastrapur lakes of the city will become exemplary in an international conference to be held in Sweden.

The stories of the development of both the lakes will be told in a workshop on urban ecology there.

A team of professionals from Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept), representatives from Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Self Employed Women'

Poor menstrual hygiene, lack of life skills have affected their education
Only 30 per cent of the girl students in hostels wash their hands before eating after defecation, while only 40 per cent take bath everyday.