Over the past few decades, the agricultural sector of Southeast Asia has experienced robust growth and undergone a structural transformation albeit differentially across the countries in the region. The
A government plan for greenhouse gas reduction by 2020 would push down Japan's economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and raise unemployment by 0.2 percentage points in 2020, a government panel report showed on Wednesday.
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Government is actively contemplating to strengthen the Integreted Paste Management (IPM) program aiming to impose control on the indiscriminate use of pesticides and chemicals at different stages of food chain, Food and Disaster management Minister, Dr Md Abdur Razzak said on Sunday.
BJP State President and Member of Parliament Narendra Singh Tomar expressed concern over the depleting investment in agriculture and said that contribution of agriculture in national gross domestic product (GDP) was 17 per cent. Plan expenses on agriculture has come done to two to three per cent. In the year 1950 contribution of agriculture was 55 per cent which had come down to 17 per cent.
Samsung Electronics said on Monday that it would invest 5.4 trillion won ($4.30 billion) in green R&D and facilities to make the world's largest memory chipmaker a leading eco-friendly company by 2013.
G8 leaders were due to agree a goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels at a summit in Italy on Wednesday. Here are some facts about the target, previously adopted by European Union nations and due to be widened to the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada. 2 DEGREES DOESN'T SOUND MUCH?
Budgetary Support Likely To Rise Incrementally & As Share Of GDP Subhash Narayan & Rajeev Jayaswal NEW DELHI HERE are some likely Budget numbers: the exchequer
In many spheres, technologies that can affect major savings are already at hand. The Integrated Energy Policy prepared by the Planning Commission estimates that India can generate negawatts
Brazil wants historic emissions to be the basis for greenhouse gas pollution targets, slated for discussion during December climate talks in Copenhagen, Brazil's top climate negotiator said in an interview.
India is now spending over 2.6 percent of its gross domestic product to adapt to climate change, says the country's annual Economic Survey, tabled in parliament Thursday by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
