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Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2002
Ensuring sustainable livelihoods:

challenges for governments, corporates, and civil society at Rio+10
8 - 11 February 2002, New Delhi

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sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Summit on sustainable development sets up a do-able agenda
The Financial Express, 12 February 2002

The DSDS 2002, which concluded on 11 February, not only laid stress on more concrete endeavours for sustainable development, but also threw up for discussion some measures that would help translate proposals into actions.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Green activism: a case of West doublespeak?
The Pioneer, 12 February 2002

The group of environment ministers from several EU countries who met at the DSDS 2002 fought shy of commitments on greater aid to developing countries.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Israeli minister backs India on terrorism
The Pioneer, 12 February 2002

The Israeli environment minister Mr Tzachi Hanegbi, who was in New Delhi to attend the DSDS 2002, said that India and Israel were close to signing an agreement on cooperation in environmental protection.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Scientist develop fuel cell technology
The Hindu, 11 February 2002

Dr Thomas M Connelly, global chief science and technology officer of DuPont, a speaker at DSDS 2002, said that fuel cell technology can be used for off-grid power generation.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Corporate sustainability will aid the cause: DSDS 2002
The Indian Express, 11 February 2002

The second day of the DSDS 2002 focussed on the private sector and what its role would be in defining changes. In an interview, Mr Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of the Business Action for Sustainable Development and a speaker at DSDS, speaks about his expectations from Johannesburg.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) People can offer a tiny amount for the environment
The Indian Express, 11 February 2002

Dr Maritta R. von Bieberstein Koch-Weser, head of Earth 3000, was in New Delhi to attend the DSDS 2002. In an interview, she speaks on funding environment protection

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Fuel cells may solve all our energy problems soon
The Financial Express, 11 February 2002

Dr Thomas M Connelly, global chief science and technology officer of DuPont, a speaker at DSDS 2002, said that fuel cell technology can be used for off-grid power generation.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Government plans to increase power generation
The Hindu, 11 February 2002

Addressing the delegates at DSD 2002, the union power minister, Mr Suresh Prabhu said the government is targeting a whopping increase in power generation from cleaner renewable energy resources

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Johannesburg meet should discuss education
The Indian Express, 10 February 2002

The need to address the issue of education in the coming summit in Johannesburg was discussed at the DSDS 2002.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) UN envoy is here to get PM to SA green meet
The Indian Express, 10 February 2002

Mr Jan P Pronk, special envoy for the UN Secretary General to the WSSD, attended the DSDS 2002 organized by TERI.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Recasting an economy for the earth
The Hindu, Magazine, 10 February 2002

Mr Lester R Brown, president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, was in New Delhi to attend the DSDS 2002 and for the release of his book Eco-Economy. The book describes how to rework the existing structure to make it compatible with the earth’s ecosystem.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) We are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction
The Indian Express, 10 February 2002

Prof. Charles Perrings, head of the Environment Department at the University of York, England, attended the DSDS 2002. Prof. Perrings advocates putting the right price on each commodity, which reflect not only the economic cost but also the ecological cost.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Towards an actionable agenda
The Financial Express, Supplement on DSDS 2002, 9 February 2002

Beginning on 8 February 2002, the DSDS 2002 will focus on Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods: Challenges for Governments, Corporates, and Civil Society at Rio+10.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) The road to Johannesburg
The Financial Express, Supplement on DSDS 2002, 9 February 2002

The forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in Johannesburg between 26 August and 4 September will identify the obstacles to progress since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Global Vision, local focus
The Financial Express, Supplement on DSDS 2002, 9 February 2002

Primarily through its research activities, TERI has carved a niche for itself in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development, both in India and abroad.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Go green, get richer
The Financial Express, Supplement on DSDS 2002, 9 February 2002

To be given out in April 2002, the TERI Corporate Environment Awards 2002 will laud three Indian corporates who have best integrated sustainability elements in their corporate strategy.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Biggest polluters must curb greenhouse gas emissions: PM
The Hindu, 9 February 2002

Inaugurating the DSDS 2002, organized by TERI, the Prime Minister Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee emphasized that removal of poverty should be at the core of all efforts for sustainable development.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Environment-friendly systems need tax sops
The Hindu, 9 February 2002

Mr Lester R Brown, president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, was in New Delhi to attend the DSDS 2002 and for the release of his book Eco-Economy.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Rich nations must keep their word to help out the poor
The Indian Express, 9 February 2002

Inaugurating the DSDS 2002, organized by TERI, the Prime Minister Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee emphasized that removal of poverty should be at the core of all efforts for sustainable development.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) PM moots levy on rich for using global natural resources
The Financial Express, 9 February 2002

Inaugurating the DSDS 2002, organized by TERI, the Prime Minister Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee has suggested imposition of specific multilateral levies on global natural resources used by the rich nations to raise resources for funding sustainable development efforts of the poor nations.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Renewable energy holds key to development
The Hindustan Times, 9 February 2002

The Prime Minister Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated the DSDS 2002, organized by TERI, which comes as a precursor to the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) We are losing the war to save the planet
The Indian Express, 9 February 2002

Mr Lester R Brown, president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, attended the DSDS 2002. Mr Brown says: `This summit, I believe, is important because it addresses the issue of making development sustainable.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Shri Baalu meets environment ministers of the Netherlands, Israel and Denmark
PIB releases, 11 February 2002

The union minister of environment and forests, Mr T R Baalu had a meeting with the Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment of the Netherlands, Mr. Johannes Pieter Pronk in New Delhi. The three Ministers were in New Delhi to take part in DSDS 2002.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Johannesburg summit should help create public awareness and education on environment: Shri Baalu
PIB releases, 11 February 2002

Addressing the 10th plenary session of DSDS 2002, the union minister of environment and forests, Mr T R Baalu said that the highest priority for the world today should be overcoming of under-development, the alleviation of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and the crushing debt burden

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Prime Minister’s speech at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
PIB releases, 8 February 2002

The Prime Minister Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated the Second Delhi Sustainable Development Summit. The union minister of environment and forest Mr T R Baalu; Director-General, TERI, Dr R K Pachauri; and Chairman, TERI, Dr Arcot Ramachandran were present on the occasion.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) We want our message to be powerful, positive and proactive
The Financial Express, 9 February 2002

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) Eradication of poverty, hunger and illiteracy are pivotal for sustainable development
The Financial Express, 9 February 2002

In an interview with the newspaper, the union minister for environment and forests, Mr T R Baalu, says that the outcome of DSDS 2002 will reflect the aspirations of millions of people in the developing world and form the basis for further negotiations at WSSD at Johannesburg.

 

sqb_t.gif (55 bytes) TERI to present energy policy to PM
Hindustan Times, 7 February 2002

India stands poised to usher in its first-ever 'Integrated Energy Policy' when world leaders, environmentalists and corporate bigwigs sit across the table at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit. The organisers, TERI, will be presenting the document detailing energy policy to Prime Minister Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee when he inaugurates the inaugural session of the four-day summit.