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Looking for indicators of progress beyond GDP-Kirthi V Rao and Vidya Krishnan

-Live Mint The OECD forum is discussing how to make the aspirations of the common man relevant to policymaking New Delhi: In the face of a deepening economic crisis and social resistance to austerity measures, world leaders are considering a collective experiment to include parameters such as well-being and happiness in national and international statistics. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) World Forum on Measuring Well-being for Development Policy Making being...

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Include the poor in Biodiversity conservation -Lise Grande

-The Hindu Intelligent management of ecosystems can help to turn local economies around and give destitute households a chance to increase their incomes Protecting Biodiversity is humanity’s insurance policy against the unprecedented Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation which has occurred in recent decades, undermining the very foundations of life on earth. This is why this week’s 11th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Hyderabad, which India is hosting, is...

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COP-11 calls for funds to achieve targets -K Venkateshwarlu

-The Hindu Ecosystem restoration and relationship between Biodiversity and climate change to be discussed The difficult task of mobilising financial resources for achieving Biodiversity targets expeditiously became the running theme at the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), represented by over 170 countries, which began here on Monday. Union Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan, who assumed charge as president of COP-11 for...

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Poor awareness about Biodiversity Act among forest officials -B Chandrashekhar

-The Hindu Several unique species of flora-fauna fast approaching the state of extinction At a time when the representatives of 193 countries have gathered here for mulling over the conservation of Biodiversity for better future of the humanity and for symbiosis of all living creatures on planet earth, lack of awareness about the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 among the Forest Department officials is resulting in the indiscriminate poaching of the Biodiversity wealth...

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Long-term impacts of Genetically Modified Organisms need close study -G Ananthakrishnan

-The Hindu But they are likely to affect higher-level species such as birds, says ornithologist The long-term environmental impacts of Genetically Modified Organisms need intensive study, but they are very likely to have impacts on higher-level species such as birds. Dr. P.A. Azeez, director of the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), Coimbatore, made that observation here in reply to a question on the potential impact of GMOs on bird...

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