India’s forest cover was estimated to be about 67.701 million hectares or 22.8 percent of the country’s land area and other wooded lands comprise of 4.11 million ha (UNEP Report, 2000). The dense forests in almost all the major states has been reduced and forest degradation is a matter of serious concern now. Principal plantation species such as Acacia spp., Eucalyptus spp. and Tectona grandis ...

The Globcover initiative comprises the development and demonstration of a service that in first instance produces a Global land cover map for year 2005/2006. Globcover uses MERIS fine resolution (300m) mode data acquired between mid 2005 and mid 2006 and, for maximum user benefit, the thematic legend is compatible with the UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS). This new product updates and...

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‘Environmental citizenship’ is, like other forms of ‘adjectival citizenship’, a recent invention. The environmental citizen’s life may be rather different from that of the ‘average’ citizen. For example, she will ‘turn off the tap when brushing [her] teeth or washing her face’; ‘walk, ride [her] bike, carpool or use public transport when possible’; ‘shop at second-hand stores and garage sales ....

Abstract. Methyl bromide (CH3Br) is a potent ozone-depleting substance (ODS) that has both natural and anthropogenic sources. CH3Br been used mainly for preplant soil fumigation, post-harvest grain timber structural fumigation. Most non-quarantine pre-shipment (non-QPS) uses were phased out by 2005 non-Article 5 (developed) countries 2015 Article (developing) under the Montreal Protocol on Subs...

The future leadership on the Green New Deal (GND) will depend teaching core concepts of economics environment and evaluating success transition implementation by monitoring evaluation. GND operates within framework United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 2008 to create jobs in green industries, thus boosting world economy curbing climate change at same time. In 2019 over 600 organizat...