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The 8th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit

The 8th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit held in Goa recently, a fair share of focus was laid upon issues relating to energy and environment. The last couple of weeks have highlighted India’s commitment towards addressing global environmental concerns. First, it ratified the Paris climate change agreement; second, it signed the Kigali agreement to amend the Montreal Protocol (in order to cut down its hydrofluorocarbons by 85% of the values in 2024-26 by the year 2047); and now it has agreed to cooperate on a whole lot of sustainability issues through the Goa Declaration.

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Here is the excerpt from the Goa Declaration adopted by the BRICS member nations:

We, the Leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa, met on 15-16 October 2016 in Goa, India, at the Eighth BRICS Summit.

Recalling all our previous declarations, we emphasize the importance of further strengthening BRICS solidarity and cooperation based on our common interests and key priorities to further strengthen our strategic partnership in the spirit of openness, solidarity, equality, mutual understanding, inclusiveness and mutually beneficial cooperation. We agree that emerging challenges to global peace and security and to sustainable development require further enhancing of our collective efforts.

24th to 25th April 2013, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

This conference will feature keynote presentations by prominent researchers in the field. Further, it is an opportunity for researchers to explore, discuss and present their research papers and also network with the best minds in the field.

Ecobuild India 2013 - an international sustainability conference and exhibition programme at the Bombay Exhibition Centre from April 16-18, 2013,

Ecobuild India 2013 is an event for sustainable design and construction in the built environment. It will bring together a wealth of top sustainability experts to debate and share their unique perspective on the agenda for India's sustainable future and the hot issues in the built environment.

1st International Conference on Bioenergy, Environment and Sustainable Technologies - BEST2013, January 27-30

The recent and continuing advances in life sciences have come up with a prediction that this will be the century of Biotechnology.

International Conference 2013 on "Enhancing Health, Wellbeing and Sustainability - Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions" will be an International Forum for those who wish to present their projects and innovations, having also the opportunity to discuss the main aspects and the latest results in the field of Education and Research.

TERI’s Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS), organized annually since 2001, is an international platform for exchange of knowledge on all nuances of sustainable development. Over the past twelve years, it has emerged as one of the most leading forums on issues of global sustainability.

PM to inaugurate Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, being organised by The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), on February 2. Finnish President Tarja Halonen, President of Seychelles James Alix Michel and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will attend the conference, TERI officials said. Nobel laureates Prof Paul J Crutzen and Dr Elinor Ostrom will also address the conference, organisers said. "Protecting The Global Commons: 20 Years Post Rio" is the theme for this year's DSDS to be attended by decision makers from governments, corporates, NGOs, bilateral organisations, academia and research institutions.

Global warming and a consciousness to preserve the eco system have made ‘Sustainable Development’ a key focus area for governments and companies. Carbon emissions per capita are lower for India compared to many other countries but in absolute numbers, we are among the largest carbon emitters in the world. Economic growth will further increase these numbers and there will be tremendous pressure on us in the future to reduce our carbon footprint.

The Bombay Stock Exchange, in Mumbai, is Asia'...

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"There is little interest in sustainable investment in India's rapidly growing mutual fund and life insurance market at the current time." -- International Finance Corporation.

The Bombay Stock Exchange is the 8th largest in the world, with an equity market capitalization of USD 1.63 trillion as of December 2010. But less than a thousandth of that -- about USD 1 billion -- represents "total stock of investment in Indian equities

Nitin Pai: Time to broaden strategic ties.

One of India’s principal challenges in east Asia is that New Delhi’s strategy can only be effective if it builds sustainable geoeconomic relationships with countries with whom it shares geopolitical interests.

India often miss the geoeconomic dimension. For instance, in discussions about energy security or arms supplies, it goes unnoticed that we generally buy fuel and weapons from countries that are not among our top trading partners.

As part of the centennial celebrations of IBM, the company on Tuesday said it is collaborating with Bangalore-based non- profit organisation Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) to prepare an Environment Report Card (ERC) for the city. The survey will showcase citizens’ perceptions of environmental issues and a factual picture of the city’s environmental condition measured across key parameters.

“This is a global initiative by IBM as part of our centennial celebration.

We internally discussed with our employees for two days and we decided to use skills of the employees to do something for the welfare of the society.

The CSD has done these kind of initiatives earlier also and we decided to work together,” Mamtha Sharma, Manager — Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, IBM India said

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HYDERABAD: India's microfinance model is not sustainable due to its overdependence on the government, the huge subsidy given by the state and the lack of a regulatory framework to check the exploitation of the poor, sectoral practitioners from Bangladesh say.

They are of the opinion that the Bangladeshi model is more sustainable as it is run professionally and is yet pro-poor, with civil society and NGOs playing an active role at the grassroots level and the government acting only as a facilitator.

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and ICICI Bank on Wednesday signed a ‘soft loan agreement' to promote research and development in the areas of nano-biotechnology, energy efficient technology, micro enterprise systems and other vital areas of sustainable development.

The agreement was signed between TERI Director-General R. K Pachauri and ICICI Bank Managing Director and CEO Chanda Kochhar here.

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NEW DELHI: In an effort to promote judicious use of water, the government is planning to offer incentives, such as tax breaks , to big industrial users if they are able to reduce wastage of water.

The incentives may feature in the new National Water Policy , which is being prepared by the water resources ministry and the Planning Commission. The policy is likely to be introduced next year.

"Currently, all industrial permissions are given conditional upon industries' being able to recycle water," Union water resources minister Salman Khurshid told ET. "Right now we are using disincentives, but ultimately we can use incentives as well."

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The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved to establish the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) as a Category I Institute of UNESCO at New Delhi.

The proposal to set up the Institute was recommended by the UNESCO Executive Board, at its 182nd session held in September, 2009 and approved by the 35th Session of General Conference of UNESCO in October, 2009.

It will put India into the category of select countries with a Category I Institute of UNESCO. Currently there are eleven Category I Institutes of UNESCO in the world, of which 9 are located in the developed countries while the remaining two are located in developing countries namely, Ethiopia and Venezuela.

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The outcome of a longstanding cooperation between the The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) of Delhi and two French institutions, the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the French Development Agency (AFD), the 2011 issue of the annual work on sustainable development, A Planet for Life, is being officially released during the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit .

VARANASI: Nanotechnology has the potential to ensure sustainable rural development in the country, but unfortunately it is not being used on a larger scale, said Alain Reocreux, an agriculture expert from France, on the penultimate day of the three-day international conference on 'managing sustainable development of rural economy and agri-business', at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Saturday.

Reocreux also said that nanotechnology is being widely used in foreign countries for sustainable development in agriculture sector.

17th ASEAN Summit promotes sustainable development

The 17th ASEAN Summit and other related meetings from October 28-30 is highly significant for the on-going process of building an ASEAN community by 2015.

The three-day event will see 11 major meetings, including the 17^th ASEAN Summit, the regular ASEAN+1 Summit with partners, such as including China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and India, as well as with Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the United Nations; the ASEAN+3 Summit (with China, Japan and the Republic of Korea), and the fifth East Asia Summit.

The summit will be attended by 18 leaders of ASEAN member countries and the bloc's partners plus the United Nations Secretary General. For the first time, the Russian Foreign Minister and the US Secretary of State will also attend the East Asia Summit as special guests.
At these summits, ASEAN and its partners will discuss ways of developing each country and for the sake of peace and stability in the region and the world.
ASEAN 17- the last ASEAN summit in 2010, will build on previous achievements and the theme of 'Toward an ASEAN community – from vision to action'.
ASEAN leaders will discuss measures to accelerate the creation of an ASEAN community, strengthen regional connections and implement the ASEAN Charter.
The summit will discuss how to cement ties between ASEAN and its partners. It will also discuss and work out measures to raise the bloc's capacity to cope with emerging challenges such as post-economic crisis recovery, sustainable development, climate change, natural disasters, epidemics, and environmental degradation.
At other related meetings, they will mull over practical measures to maintain the ASEAN+1, ASEAN+3 and the East Asia Summit (EAS) in which ASEAN plays a central role. Especially, at the EAS summit as ASEAN leaders will officially invite Russia and the US to take part from 2011. >>>