Interviews
“We are looking to make wildlife and livestock more compatible by dealing with diseases, by dealing with human/wildlife conflict, and at the same time seeking economic opportunity in both of these arenas.” Steve Osofsky, director of wildlife health policy for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), developed the Animal & Human Health for the Environment And Development (AHEAD) program at WCS and served as the first wildlife veterinary officer for the Botswana Department of Wildlife and National Parks. In an interview with Worldwatch Research Fellow Molly Theobald, Dr. Osofsky discusses how farmers can both help and benefit from wildlife conservation.
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Monday,11 October, 2010 | Hits: 1051
Nabhan is working with U.S. farming and ranching groups to provide incentives for maintaining ecological services such as pollination, watershed health, and soil erosion control, an effort he calls “The Next Frontier.”
Guest author Fred Bahnson interviewed Gary Paul Nabhan, a lecturer, food and farming advocate, folklorist, and conservationist who lives and farms in the U.S. Southwest. Nabhan discusses his new book, the future of agriculture, and how 1,400-year-old Lebanese farming techniques influence his land ethic.
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Friday,17 September, 2010 | Hits: 224
Wipro chairman Azim Premji believes that just as the past few decades have been the "Information Age," the next few decades will be the "Ecological Age." And just as he transformed Wipro from a small oil and soap business into a US$6 billion IT and FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) powerhouse, Premji is now betting on ecology as the next big business opportunity for the group.
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Wednesday,16 June, 2010 | Hits: 308
Kirit Parikh, former member of India's Planning Commission, chairs a 26-member expert group tasked with developing a low-carbon growth strategy for India.
There was a time, not long ago, when the idea of a national low-carbon growth strategy for India would have been hard to imagine. "Low carbon" was seen to be at loggerheads with India's ambitious economic development agenda and was too controversial a concept to find voice in domestic politics. Yet in January 2010, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted a 26-member expert group to help develop a low-carbon growth strategy for India. The group, which hosts a formidable array of government, industry, academia, and civil society members, is being chaired by Dr. Kirit Parikh, former member of India's Planning Commission.
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Tuesday,09 March, 2010 | Hits: 334
What is this ‘new humanism’ that you want to bring into UNESCO’s approach? Many countries, like India, are showing dynamism in their economic progress. But they are struggling to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, empowering women, reducing child mortality, combating diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability etc. ‘New Humanism’ seeks to put these in focus. It stresses an inclusive humanism, which takes within it the environment, nature, and strives to build new values. It is ‘new’ because it is different from the 18th century concept of individual-based good.
{xtypo_quote}Last year, 56-year-old Irina Bokova of Bulgaria was elected the director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). She is the first woman to hold this post. After working in Bulgarian governments, both before and after the fall of communist rule, Bokova has been a diplomat and special representative to the UN. On her first visit to India after becoming the director general, she spoke to Subodh Varma on her vision for UNESCO: {/xtypo_quote}
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Sunday,24 January, 2010 | Hits: 336
Q&A: Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests
In this concluding part of his extended interview to Business Standard, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh talks of his agenda for greening Indian industry: new energy efficiency norms for industry, applying a new environment index at industrial clusters, and the like. Excerpts
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Sunday,17 January, 2010 | Hits: 288
Q&A: The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, R K Pachauri, tells Kalpana Jain that the glacier melting report was a mistake but that does not detract from the fact that glaciers are melting
How big do you consider the goof-up on dates (of glaciers melting) and will it change the ongoing climate change talks?
We realised it was a mistake and stated that very clearly in a statement. I don’t want to minimise the mistake itself. But in no way does it detract from reality — that there is widespread mass loss of glaciers.
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Saturday,23 January, 2010 | Hits: 308
With the row on glaciers, the heat is on R.K. Pachauri, TERI chief and IPCC chairman. In this Idea Exchange moderated by Special Correspondent Amitabh Sinha, Pachauri speaks of Copenhagen and answers questions on whether the controversy has dented IPCC's image
AMITABH SINHA: IPCC's claims on glacier melt, and specifically, that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035, have been found to lack concrete scientific evidence. What does this mean for the credibility of IPCC?
In this one instance, the well-laid down procedures of verifying scientific evidence were not properly followed and we regret that. But this cannot be the basis of questioning the credibility of IPCC. IPCC's credibility remains as intact as ever. The broader point that the glaciers have been receding is unchallenged.
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Saturday,23 January, 2010 | Hits: 313
Is the government working on declaring some targets on climate change apart from what we have heard on the National Action Plan on Climate Change?
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Tuesday,01 December, 2009 | Hits: 258
You are perceived to be close to RIL.
They have done beautiful work from project management to technology. A person who is meritorious gets extra attention in a class. I am impressed by their management… others should learn from it.
The battle between the two Ambani brothers over gas supplies from the Krishna-Godavari basin off the Andhra Pradesh coast has spilled over into the petroleum ministry, with the Director General Hydrocarbons (DGH) V K Sibal coming under direct attack for allegedly favouring Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL). In a free-wheeling interview with Jyoti Mukul, Sibal makes a case for his innocence and blames the media campaign by the Anil Ambani group for the current controversy. Excerpts:
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Wednesday,14 October, 2009 | Hits: 276
