Friday, June 7, 2013
"Thrilled At Greening City" | NewSpotLight Nepal News Magazine
"Thrilled At Greening City" | NewSpotLight Nepal News Magazine
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
"New Emission Standards In Offing" | NewSpotLight Nepal News Magazine
"New Emission Standards In Offing"
As Nepal is celebrating the World Environment Day on June 5, KESHAB PRASAD BHATTARAI, Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, spoke to NEW SPOTLIGHT on various issues. Excerpts:
"New Emission Standards In Offing" | NewSpotLight Nepal News MagazineWORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2013: Food Waste | NewSpotLight Nepal News Magazine
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2013: Food Waste
With the improvement in facilities like transportation, storage, packaging, and machinery as well as control of pets, Nepal has drastically reduced the post harvest loss. Experiences of Practical Action show that food loss can be minimized through gravity rope and simple packaging. As the World Environment Day 2013 aims to reduce food waste, there, however, are several challenges before Nepal in this area
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2013: Food Waste | NewSpotLight Nepal News Magazine
Thursday, May 30, 2013
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Regional consultation on “Trade, climate change and food security in South Asia”
The program is organized by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) and Oxfam Novib. About 50 experts from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are participating in the program. The discussions during the program cover issues such as the Doha climate conference and global climate negotiations; SAARC Food Bank; SAARC Seed Bank; liberalization of environmental goods; regional trade in agriculture and food products; climate change adaptation; biofuel and food security; and technology transfer, among others.
Inaugurating the program, Dr. Abdur Rahim Mikrani, Member, National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal, said the meeting was timely in the context of severe impacts of climate change on agriculture, and the need for assessing the inter-linkages between trade, climate change and food security. He lauded SAWTEE’s key role in lobbying for a regional seed bank in South Asia, an agreement on which was signed at the 17th SAARC Summit in Male. He stressed the need to work out guidelines for the effective operationalization of the SAARC Food Bank, which has not been drawn upon by any member state even five years since its establishment although several countries have been hit by natural calamities resulting in food shortages.
A two-day Regional Consultation on “Trade, Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia” began in Kathmandu on 20 December, with participants from around the region calling for policies and strategies to cope with the impacts on agriculture and food production from a highly likely increase in global temperature of more than 2 percentage points above pre-industrial levels. They also called for simplifying the operational modalities of the SAARC Food Bank and making them more pragmatic for member countries to benefit from it in times of need.
The program is organized by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) and Oxfam Novib. About 50 experts from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are participating in the program. The discussions during the program cover issues such as the Doha climate conference and global climate negotiations; SAARC Food Bank; SAARC Seed Bank; liberalization of environmental goods; regional trade in agriculture and food products; climate change adaptation; biofuel and food security; and technology transfer, among others.
Inaugurating the program, Dr. Abdur Rahim Mikrani, Member, National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal, said the meeting was timely in the context of severe impacts of climate change on agriculture, and the need for assessing the inter-linkages between trade, climate change and food security. He lauded SAWTEE’s key role in lobbying for a regional seed bank in South Asia, an agreement on which was signed at the 17th SAARC Summit in Male. He stressed the need to work out guidelines for the effective operationalization of the SAARC Food Bank, which has not been drawn upon by any member state even five years since its establishment although several countries have been hit by natural calamities resulting in food shortages.
http://spotlightnepal.com/News.aspx?ArticleID=4251
Survival Of Kyoto Protocol
By Batu Uprety
Climate change-induced disasters are increasing and have largely affected the people and their livelihood. Climate change was realized nearly three decades back, and legally-binding instruments - the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol (KP) - were adopted in 1992 and 1997 respectively. The Convention and the Protocol provision for taking necessary actions in addressing the on-going and emerging threats of climate change.
Parties to the Convention and the Protocol meet every year and decide measures for their effective implementation. Recently, Parties met at Doha, Qatar, from 26 November and to 7 December 2012, and have made many decisions to implement the Convention and the Protocol. As this author mentioned in the previous article, there were seven sessions at Doha namely: (i) 18th session of the COP (Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC); (ii) 8th meeting of the CMP (COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the KP); (iii) 37th session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI); (iv) 37th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA); (v) Ad-hoc Working (AWG) on Long-term Cooperative Action (LCA); (vi) AWG on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties to the KP; and (vii) AWG on Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP).
http://spotlightnepal.com/Opinion.aspx?ArticleID=4217&IssueID=64
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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