The United Nations is launching the Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (2010-2020) today, an 11-year long effort to raise awareness and action to improve the protection and management of the world's drylands, home to a third of the world's population and which face serious economic and environmental threats.   To source

Just as Lester Brown writes about rising temperatures leading to rising food prices, a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details the connection, already evident and likely to become more so, between rising temperatures and declining rice yields in parts of Asia. It's decidedly not a pretty picture. To source

Minister for Water Resources Ajit Pawar on Thursday said the state government would soon declare a policy for promotion of solar energy in the state to meet the power demands of the state. To source

Three reports on the leaked emails of British climate scientists allow a calm perspective on last year’s media storm and bring the real problems of global warming back into focus, says Øyvind Paasche. To source

Awareness of renewable energy technologies among academic and research communities; To promote research activities on Renewable Energies at UG , PG & Doctoral levels; Renewable energy resource assessment; Recent academic research and development in India To source

The Centre for Science and Environment releases an in-depth report on the city of Kanpur as part of its ongoing initiative to build city action on clean air and mobility. To source

Buildings are not buildings but energy forms. So what can you do about bringing sanity to such energy use when you build? It is useful to remember when you set out to build a house or an office building, a hotel or hospital, that every material that we use is expending energy in different forms, and is releasing carbon into the atmosphere. To source

A novel approach to innovation – where social redefinition of existing technologies is taken as seriously as new inventions – could boost our ability to fight climate change, say David Tyfield, Jin Jun and Tyler Rooker. To source

Clean energy markets in the U.S. and Europe remain lukewarm because of regulatory uncertainty and hard-to-access investment capital, Bloomberg New Energy Finance CEO Michael Liebreich told a crowd at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in New York today. To source