Indian Foreign Secretary Ms Nirupama Rao delivered her keynote address on the `Perspectives on Foreign Policy - 21 Century India’ at the 3rd International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) Indian Ministry of External Affairs dialogue on 22 February, 2010. Her speech spun around the three key subjects Indian role i.e. Countering Terrorism and Extremism, [...]
“Climate change and the effects of atmospheric pollution will continue to affect the world during the coming 50 years.”
Dr. Andreas Schild, Director General of the International Centre for Integrated mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal is a development specialist with over 30 years of experience in designing, planning, executing, and monitoring cooperation programmes, mainly in sustainable [...]
The burning question that concerns all of humanity today regards our priorities today. Should nations be investing billions of dollars every year in beefing up their defenses and purchasing or building weopans of mass destruction or should they be allocating this money towards food security, water conservation, environmental protection, education, health and sanitation, etc.
We are [...]
In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it is important to ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on [...]
Below is the text of the common editorial on climate change. Fifty-six newspapers from around the world have committed to speaking with a single voice on the eve of the Copenhagen conference by running identical editorials on December 7. The Pakistani Spectator has been a proud participant in the publication of this call for politicians [...]
It’s a crime to take a good thing like the population’s concern for the environment and turn it into a socialist agenda like cap and trade in order to control business and remove the population’s wealth so that they also can be controlled more. The people want to clean up the environment, but they need [...]
