A new approach - The Nature Diversity Act

The project titled “Conservation of Biological Diversity and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: Capacity Building for Interdisciplinary Research and Application” is culminating July 31. The project is supported by the Embassy and implemented by NORAGRIC, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Ås) and ATREE (Bangalore). A project end workshop was held in Gangtok, Sikkim, between May 27 and 29.

Committed to Sustainability: India and Norway are engaged in several arenas of collaboration within environment, clean and renewable energy and climate change.

Norway is the first country to contribute up to USD one billion to a Brazilian fund to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. Reducing deforestation can provide the largest, quickest and cheapest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the short term.

The last issue of TIME magazine presents Frederic Hauge, President of the Bellona Foundation, as one of some 40 selected heroes of the environment around the world. Hauge says this is recognition of the work of the entire organisation.