News on Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development
May 16, 2012
| www.magazin-deutschland.de, German Embassy New Delhi
Twenty years after the Rio Earth Summit, the international community is taking stock and looking to the future. The UN Climate Change Conference is taking place in Bonn from 14 – 25 May, with participants from 181 countries. In an interview, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), talks about the chances for sustainable development.
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May 11, 2012
| youthinkgreen.org, German Embassy New Delhi
In Wolfsburg, nearly 200 young people from eleven countries, including India, laid the foundation stone for a worldwide youth climate network within the youthinkgreen programme. They aim to implement specific everyday action against climate change in 13 cities around the globe through local sustainability projects. The students from New Delhi are participating with a project on sustainable waste management.
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May 7, 2012
| German Embassy New Delhi
Germany and India held their annual bilateral consultations on development cooperation in New Delhi on 30 April and 1 May, 2012. As the two countries celebrate 60 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Year of Germany in India 2011 – 2012, a record four umbrella agreements were signed and the consultations confirmed focusing on the identified areas of energy, environment and sustainable economic development.
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Apr 30, 2012
| Deutsche Welle
In addition to being nutritious and tasty, algae are increasingly used in cosmetics and may even help fight cancer. Biologists from northern Germany use the domestic brown algae for their research.
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Apr 24, 2012
| Deutsche Welle, German Embassy New Delhi
The European Union's executive has identified Germany among Europe's most exemplary recyclers and wants other European countries to copy its policies.
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