United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) : What has changed?
1st June 2016United Nations Environment Programme was established as a result of Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972.
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- Plant adoption at Urban forestry site, Warje
- Connecting the dots
- TERRE will be a part of COP24, Katowice
- TERRE is now partner with Earth Champion
- Review in Year 2018
Waseda University Meets TERRE Policy Centre
The 5th edition of 'Prakashache Bet'
The 5th edition of 'Prakashache Bet'
TERRE Policy Centre conducted a workshop on environmental awareness among children through entertainment at Kalaghoda Festival.
Paying back for Nature’s Services: Our way
1st March 2016Bio-diversity by definition expresses the variability among the various living organisms. Many believe that bio-diversity is important
Yoga can help deal with climate change
21st June 2015Except for the quiet perennial flow of waters in the Rhine every ambience of the city of Bonn has undergone a change over...
Mr. Rajendra Shende invited on the France 24 channel
20th May 2015TERRE Chairman Mr Rajendra Shende invited on the France 24 channel for the panel discussion on Climate Change.
Beyond borders: India, China must show climate stewardship
09th April 2015Hsan-tsang, a scholarly Chinese monk in Vedic and Buddhism studies, crossed the...
French rural tourism concept could help Modi’s inclusive development
09th April 2015One year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was born, in 1951, a young French...
An opportunity for 'nouveau' chapter in India-France collaboration
09th April 2015AS Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on a visit to France, the first stop of his...
Coughing Kejriwal: Scary Mandate and Scary Pollution
21st Feb 2015The day Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, which means Common Man's Party) won...
Was Modi-Obama's bullet proof summit climate-proof too?
05 Feb 2015When US President Barack Obama alighted from his bulletproof car on Rajpath on Jan 26, he was received by...
Obama and Modi can change global climate of inaction (Comment: Special to IANS)
24 January 2015It was early morning. I was listening to US President Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address in my farm up...
India's Ecologica Challenges Dangers of forgetting the past
20 July 2014Ecology is ingrained in Indian psyche. It is part of our scriptures, our culture, our social behavior and has been...
Will South Asian countries swear-in by Green Growth?
10 June 2014May 26, 2014 could prove to be the day of ‘turning a page’ in the history of the relation between India and its South Asian neighbours.
It Does Little for Poorer Countries
29 May, 2014I was an observer from the United Nations at the jamboree that gave birth to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997...
Climate apartheid: Sherpas fall victims in Himalayan black snow
29 May, 2014A few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow, and we stood on top," stated Sir Edmund Hillary about his final climb...
An opportunity to abolish climate-apartheid
04 May, 2014Delegates taking part in Abu Dhabi Ascent should pledge to adopt plans that will keep the global temperature rise below 2°Celsius
Diaspora & sustainability
25 March 2014Erica Sita is a young enthusiast from a small island called Reunion near Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. She is a management graduate in finance and works with passion on CSR.
The Developing World Must Act Too
Tue, 1 April 2014It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change, it has been said of the theory of natural selection.
Greetings on the National Science Day
Fri, 28 Feb 201428th of February, 1928 has gone down in the global history of science. India's most distinguished scientists and physicist ....
न आटणारा वनराई बंधारा
Mon, 17 Feb 2014धारीयाजींच्या संपूर्ण काम करण्याच्या विस्मयकारक वृत्तीच्या आशीर्वादामुळे वनराई बंधारयातील पाणी कधीच कमी होणार नाही. धारीयाजींच्या आणि वनराई कार्यकर्त्यांच्या दृड निश्चयाने पुरेपूर ....
Climate game played in stadium without any goals
Mon, 25 Nov. 2013The national stadium of Warsaw is brand new but the game being played there has now become familiar, fogyish and frustrating. ...
Mandela Madiba : 95th Birthday Leader of the Centuries to Come
Thus, 18 Jul. 2013A man who was not bitter about those who put him 27 years in prison is Mandela-a giant with vision and focus. ..
General Motors and Rajubhagarwalla
Wed, 12 Dec.Raju is 'bhangarwalla' (one who goes house to house and collects all kinds of solid waste by paying to scrap-provider and makes money by selling it to recyclers)...
Back to Nature...
Thus, 08 Jan. 2013Environmental Restoration and living with nature is turning out to be the key for reversing the trends of urban migration. ...
Troubled Talks, Gapping Gulf and Courageous Qatar
Thus, 22 Nov. 2012Four years ago, at this time of the year, I was in Doha, capital city of Qatar, for the 20th Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to ...
Ozone Treaty or climate Treaty ?
2012Rajendra Shende, who retired from UNEP as Head of OzonAction of DTIE at the level of Director, is better known as ‘man in hurry with action-agenda
Mahatma Gandhi and Steve Jobs
2011The first week of month of October brought shower of thoughts about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Steve Paul Jobs...
Rio + 20 Summit or Gambit?
2012Mathematically titled as “Rio+20”, denoting 20th Anniversary of the famous landmark in the history of the civilization-called ‘Earth Summit’...
From Rhine Land to Amazon Forest Can we see the Forest for the Trees ?
2014I am on the way to Rio to participate in an event nick named ‘Rio+20’ & seize ‘one in life time opportunity’...
Finally, I see some Green shades after French election, …………… but not really !
2014The frantic and some times even querulous French Presidential campaign ended on 6th May...
iCloud : up in the sky!
2014The world of today can best be described as a “virtual-world”! We engage in almost every thing virtual. Virtual-conferences, virtual-exhibitions and even virtual-universities! ...
Technological Arrogance & Nature’s Might
2014100 years on after Titanic disaster and more than one year after the Fukushima disaster, I cannot prevent myself distancing from a thought that ...
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
2014“If not us, who? If not now, when?” These words reverberated at the round table in The White House, Washington DC. Temptation to hazard a guess on who said it is overwhelming...
Lunch in Fukushima and Nuclear Renaissance
2014Nothing like having nice authentic Japanese food sitting with some energy experts and debating on the future of nuclear energy...
