Metrobus in Mexico City Wins Harvard University Award for Sustainable Transit Project.

Mexico City’s Metrobus project received the 2009 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership from Harvard University. Metrobus is a sustainable transit project in one of the world’s most populated and congested cities. “Metrobus, which focuses on massive transport systems and better vehicle fuel efficiency, has shown to be a viable and economically efficient way to [...]

Report on Food Security and Agricultural Mitigation in Developing Countries

At the Barcelona Climate Change Talks The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) releases the Report on Food Security and Agricultural Mitigation in Developing Countries. The report  highlights the mitigation potential from agriculture of improvements in cropland and grazing land management and soil restoration. It explores potential synergies between food security, adaptation and climate change mitigation [...]

Barcelona Climate Change Talks.

The Climate Change Talks are being held from 2-6 November 2009, in Barcelona, Spain. UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer opened the Barcelona Climate Change and highlighted the significant advances in the negotiations on adaptation, technology transfer, capacity-building and reducing emissions from deforestation (REDD) The Barcelona meeting is unlikely to resolve the big issues on finance [...]

Eco-labels

There have been several proposed programs for eco-labeling seafood products in an effort to provide incentives to fisheries managers to create sustainable fisheries. The purpose of these initiatives is to provide a market-based incentive for sustainable fisheries management                                               According to the UNFAO, about 70 per cent of our global fisheries are now being fished [...]

Developing solutions for countries suffering water scarcity

Advances in technology and knowledge need to be encouraged in developing countries which are challenged with the problem of water scarcity.

Global Environmental Diplomacy

Mostafa Tolba describes six instruments whose negotiations are representatives of an international environmental agenda that has evolved since the Stockholm Conference in 1972. The author was close associated with every step of the negotiations and the problems that set upon their establishment. Some lessons learned in earlier negotiations have been useful for the performance of [...]