Events

Transforming Municipal and Industrial Water Landscape

Organizer: Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

Venue: Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

Organizer: Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)

Venue: Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)

Description:
WOTR has been in the forefront of mobilizing vulnerable communities in semi arid and resource fragile regions to help themselves out of poverty by harvesting rainwater and regenerating the ecosystems they live in along watershed lines.

Organizer: Brahmanand College

Organizer: Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University (CEPT)

Venue: CEPT Conference Room, CEPT University, Ahmedabad

Description:

Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) is a leading institution located at Ahmedabad. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in disciplines related to the Natural and Built Environment. CEPT University also aspires to train competent technocrats and is a recognized centre of excellence in its areas of pursuit.

Organizer: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Topics:

• Basics of GIS/RS data structure and analysis
• Cartographic principles
• Basic principles of remote sensing
• Digital Image Processing
• Spatial data sources
• GPS theory
• Field data collection and processing

Venue: Bangalore

Description:

This intensive course will provide participants with an opportunity to learn the basic principles of remote sensing, geographical information systems and GPS. The course will also provide rigorous, individualized hands-on training in GIS/RS techniques using state-of-the art software.

Organizer: Alva Group of Institutions

Venue: Alva’s Health Center, Mijar, Moodabidri, Karnataka

Description:

On behest of the movement, of which you have been an integral part, the Ministry of Environment & Forests had set-up a Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel to pave way for setting up the Western Ghats Environment Authority. The panel has been engaged in public consultations over past couple of months giving us a chance to collectively review its functioning as well.

Green Revolution (GR) technologies, supported by official policies, and fuelled by agro-chemicals, machinery and irrigation, are well known to have improved agricultural production and productivity. While these technologies greatly helped developing countries to address their food-security and food-sovereignty needs, farmers using these technologies have had to depend on external inputs.

Despite the pre-Cancun Wikileaks revelation of U.S. strong-arm tactics at the Copenhagen summit, and U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern's remarks about "climate bribery", wherein he said countries asking for aid were in no position to accuse the U.S. of bribery; it is largely perceived that the Cancun Climate Meet has picked up the lost momentum of Copenhagen.

193 nations met at Cancun to debate on how to move forward on the climate change adaptation process and drafted the Cancun Agreement.

Organizers:

Organizer: EA Water Private Limited