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.
United Nations Environment Programme was established as a result of Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972.
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Bio-diversity by definition expresses the variability among the various living organisms. Many believe that bio-diversity is important
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Except for the quiet perennial flow of waters in the Rhine every ambience of the city of Bonn has undergone a change over...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
TERRE Chairman Mr Rajendra Shende invited on the France 24 channel for the panel discussion on Climate Change.
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Hsan-tsang, a scholarly Chinese monk in Vedic and Buddhism studies, crossed the...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
One year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was born, in 1951, a young French...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
AS Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on a visit to France, the first stop of his...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
The day Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, which means Common Man's Party) won...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
When US President Barack Obama alighted from his bulletproof car on Rajpath on Jan 26, he was received by...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
It was early morning. I was listening to US President Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address in my farm up...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Ecology is ingrained in Indian psyche. It is part of our scriptures, our culture, our social behavior and has been...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
May 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.
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
I was an observer from the United Nations at the jamboree that gave birth to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
A few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow, and we stood on top," stated Sir Edmund Hillary about his final climb...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Delegates taking part in Abu Dhabi Ascent should pledge to adopt plans that will keep the global temperature rise below 2°Celsius
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Erica 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.
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
It 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.
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
28th of February, 1928 has gone down in the global history of science. India's most distinguished scientists and physicist ....
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
धारीयाजींच्या संपूर्ण काम करण्याच्या विस्मयकारक वृत्तीच्या आशीर्वादामुळे वनराई बंधारयातील पाणी कधीच कमी होणार नाही. धारीयाजींच्या आणि वनराई कार्यकर्त्यांच्या दृड निश्चयाने पुरेपूर ....
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
The national stadium of Warsaw is brand new but the game being played there has now become familiar, fogyish and frustrating. ...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
A man who was not bitter about those who put him 27 years in prison is Mandela-a giant with vision and focus. ..
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
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)...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Environmental Restoration and living with nature is turning out to be the key for reversing the trends of urban migration. ...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Four 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 ...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Rajendra 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
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
The first week of month of October brought shower of thoughts about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Steve Paul Jobs...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Mathematically titled as “Rio+20”, denoting 20th Anniversary of the famous landmark in the history of the civilization-called ‘Earth Summit’...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
I am on the way to Rio to participate in an event nick named ‘Rio+20’ & seize ‘one in life time opportunity’...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
The frantic and some times even querulous French Presidential campaign ended on 6th May...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
The 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! ...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
100 years on after Titanic disaster and more than one year after the Fukushima disaster, I cannot prevent myself distancing from a thought that ...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
“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...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
Nothing like having nice authentic Japanese food sitting with some energy experts and debating on the future of nuclear energy...
Chairman TERRE
Former Director, UNEP
You are cordially invited for the first ever Environmental Film Festival is being organized in the UK in London on 12th and 13th September 2014. It is a free event aimed to improve awareness on issues connected to environment and climate change.
The two-day event is jointly hosted by London-based Sanskruti Centre and multi-location TERRE Policy Centre who is partner with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-Climate and Clean Air Coalition and United Nations Safe Planet Campaign. The Venue is Digital Theatre, MML 306 Dollis Hill Lane, and NW2 6HH.
Baroness Verma, Parliamentary Under-Secretary will render the inaugural address on 12th September for State and junior Minister for Energy and Climate Change. Eminent speakers Sally Case, Chief Executive of David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation and Rajendra Shende, former Director of United Nations
Environmental Program (UNEP) will also be speaking on the occasion. A short film on climate change will be shown thereafter.On 13th, more films ranging about 5-14 minutes each in duration and connected to the Environment and impact of Climate Change on communities, biodiversity and culture will be screened. Films include Melting of Himalayas, Leopards in the Lurch, the Silenced Witness, The Last Dance etc. by acclaimed directors like Kalpana Subrahmanian, Ashima Narain, Gurmeet Sapal and Sonya Kapoor.
Guests (on both days) must be present by 5.30 pm. Drinks/light snacks are available.
Please RSVP ragas_v@yahoo.co.in
Ragasudha Vinjamuri , Academic Tutor, University of Sunderland, Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, Director, Sanskruti Centre for Cultural Excellence
“Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon”- Paul Brandt