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2016

New Economy Paradigm to achieve Sustainable Development Goals

A popular TED talk by the founder and promoter of the Social Progress Index, describes the potential for achieving the very ambitious and complex set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals laid out in the 2030 Global Sustainable Development Agenda within the desired 15 years. And that, without increasing “GDP growth”. …

Vision of Watershed Development

Agriculture plays a vital role in developing India’s economy. Over 58 per cent of the rural households depend on agriculture as their principal means of livelihood Agriculture along with fisheries and forestry, which contributes largest to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals-Environmental health, Economic profitability, …

INVESTING IN NATURE IS THE RIGHT WAY TO CREATE A WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT

The benefits that human populations gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects and pharmaceutical uses of plants are just a few examples of services humans usually receive for free. A recent wave …

Delhi needs a more environmentally ambitious budget than the Delhi Budget 2016

Delhi Government announced its budget for the financial year 2016 on 28th March 2016. India follows a federal system of government. For functioning of the states, they are provided with certain central allocations by the central government. The state further collects revenue for expenditure on development allocations deemed right by …