Bleak Prospects for Durban Summit By Dr Arvind Kumar In a recent media interview, Achim Steiner, the chief of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has plainly expressed his fears of failure at ‘a very ...

World Oceans Day By Dr Arvind Kumar 8th June is observed as World Oceans Day (WOD) every year, since the delegates at Rio Earth Summit in 1992 decided to mark June 8 every year as World Oceans Day (WO ...

Cluster Approach to Food Security By Dr Arvind Kumar According to a recent news report released by IRIN, a 2010 evaluation of the "cluster approach" conducted by the Global Public Policy Institute (GP ...

Nuclear Power Plants and People By Dr Arvind Kumar Nuclear catastrophe wrought by nuclear power plants recently in Japan’s Fukushima has brought into focus the location of these nuclear plants in prox ...

World Environment Day 5th June is observed as Environment Day throughout the globe annually. World Environment Day was first celebrated on 5th June in 1972, and has since become an important vehicle t ...

Asia’s Water Problems By Dr Arvind Kumar Recent reports indicate that much of central China along the Yangtze River has been in the grip of a five-month drought that has dried up rivers, reducing hydr ...

Donors for Africa According to data released recently by the World Bank’s DATA Report 2011, for the past five years, the DATA Report has monitored the historic commitments to sub-Saharan Africa that t ...

Setbacks To World Peace By Dr Arvind Kumar According to the latest edition of the Global Peace Index, an annual ranking of 153 countries, the world became slightly less peaceful in 2010, punctuated by ...

Transparency in Aid Policy By Dr Arvind Kumar According to just-published research by New York University Economics Prof William Easterly and Claudia Williamson, as reported by IRIN, Norway, Sweden, F ...

Wither Green Missions! By Dr Arvind Kumar Recent media reports about Prime Minister’s Office in India having found that some of the missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) ar ...