The book offers a complete and up-to-date overview of the global standard on water footprint assessment as developed by the Water Footprint Network. More specifically it: Provides a comprehensive set of methods for water footprint assessment Shows how water footprints can be calculated for individual processes and products, as well as for consumers, nations and

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The BASIC Ministers exchanged views on the outcome of the Cancun Conference and the approach to be taken to the future work in the run-up to Durban. The Ministers appreciated the role played by Mexico as President of COP-16 in achieving the outcome and noted several positive elements of the outcome. While agreeing that the

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Highlights of local governments achievements in Cancun outcomes include, • Introducing the Mexico City Pact and carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR) as the global response of local governments to measurable, reportable, verifiable (MRV) climate action• Recognition of Local Governments (LGs): for the first time, States in Cancun recognize LGs as key governmental stakeholders in global

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Jairam Ramesh’s ambitious Rs46,000-crore 10-year afforestation plan has got the prime minister’s (PM’s) nod, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) said on Wednesday. Called ‘Green India Mission’, the project involves adding 10 million hectares to the nation’s 40-42 million hectares of good-quality forests, with the long-term target of increasing the ‘good’ forest cover from

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Integrated assessment models (IAMs) used by researchers today – where climate change data is integrated with economic data – are dangerously flawed because they are based on naïve assumptions, according to Kevin Anderson from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change at the University of Manchester, UK. Anderson told environmentalresearchweb: “The vast majority of IAMs assume

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