Investment and price assurance for farmers will yield the results that have eluded our policymakers so far. India has been striving to achieve 4% growth rate in farm output since the beginning of Ninth Five-Year Plan. However, actual growth rate has remained invariably lower than the targeted growth rate. Further, agriculture witnessed a sharp slowdown during mid-1990s to the middle of the first decade of 21st century. Annual growth rate in farm GDP declined to 2.4% a year during 1995-96 to 2004-05 from more than 3% in the previous decade.

China’s painstaking development of a low-cost, efficient energy solution for its commuters holds a lesson for India.

Observed changes in rainfall patterns and increased temperatures, particularly in the North-Eastern region, are the major projections on which Indian agriculture scientists are pegging their “mitigation and adaptation” plans in the farm sector in the absence of definitive long-term and area-specific data on climate change.

Madhya Pradesh Forest department has been bestowed with the international Green Globe Foundation Award for outstanding achievement in environment sector by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Vizcraft International. The award was given away during Delhi Sustainable Development Summit-2012 at New Delhi. The award was received by Chief Conservator of Forests Anil Upadhyay posted in Delhi. In total, awards in eight categories were given away at the function.

Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities.

Many are suspicious of environmental initiatives. Ed Elswick, a county supervisor, voiced criticism at last month's meeting.

India and France should collaborate to evolve acceptable solutions for the emission reduction regime to be adopted in 2015
am participating in the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) following the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban for pursuing the work that had enabled the adoption of a key agreement in December 2011. This agreement on climate change is first and foremost an extremely encouraging sign aiming at an effective multilateral regime for reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We cannot but rejoice at having reached such a compromise.