“Paryavaran Mitra”, one of the largest sustainability and climate change education programmes in the world, was launched on 24 July 2010. Paryavaran Mitra is a programme for students...
The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) was adopted in October 2010 at Nagoya after six years of intense...
Aerosol is a system of colloidal particles dispersed in the atmospheric gases. It may be of natural or anthropogenic origin. It may have influence on climate directly...
National Green Corps (NGC) Programme It is a well established and recognised fact that the children can be catalysts in promoting a mass movement about the ensemble...
Green India Mission (GIM) has been initiated by the Ministry of Environment & Forest as one of the eight missions under National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)...
Eco-Development Forces Scheme was established in 1980s as a scheme being implemented through Ministry of Defence for ecological restoration of terrains, rendered difficult either due to severe degradation...
India’s Biosphere Reserves under MAB Network Out of the 18 Biosphere Reserves designated nationally, so far seven viz., Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka), Gulf of Mannar (Tamil...
Mangroves for Future is an Indian initiative. The full title of the project is "Mangroves for Future (MFF): a strategy for promoting investment in Coastal Ecosystem Conservation"....
National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) for India is a recent initiative undertaken by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. NSDI aimed at encouraging collection, aggregation...
Kaguya was the name of a Japanese princess. The same name has been given to the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft which is technically Selenological and Engineering Explorer...
