On 26th June 2014 at the First United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the “Post 2015 South Asia Development Agenda” report was Launched by the South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). South Asia with its eight countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, …
Creating a sustainable future for the Nation means that all the spheres of human activity – economic, social, environmental, governance and, above all, value systems – must function together at a whole new level of coherence and synergy. Previous trialogue 2047 discussions have explored the principles of designing a national development strategy …
The world faces an enormous challenge: how to lift more than one billion people out of extreme poverty and meet the livelihood and resource needs of a projected nine billion people in 2050, while keeping climate change, biodiversity loss and other impacts within acceptable limits? Recognizing the scale of this …
Current patterns of socio-economic development are demonstrably leading to a world that is more socially unequal, ecologically fragile and economically vulnerable than ever before. In the long span of human history, there have never been as many people existing in extreme poverty, as broad a spectrum of species becoming extinct, …
Climate change activism is neither piracy nor hooliganism. It is warning the world about climate change which can not only have serious implications on our present but can also devastate the fate of our future generations. It is about reminding the world time and again that unsustainable actions and ignorance …