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UGEC reaction to UN Global Sustainability Report
The UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability released its report last week. Based on it, experts from IHDP’s Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project (UGEC) argue: Understanding urban development and how its components interact with the environment are key for creating successful guidelines aimed at achieving global sustainability. | Read more
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News | IHDP Scientific Committee
IHDP Scientific Committee chair Sir Partha Dasgupta to lead India’s Green National Accounts Committee
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, chairman of the IHDP Scientific Committee, will head a high-level expert group set up by the Indian government to evaluate the impact of economic growth on the environment. The panel will provide a road map for a “green national accounting” system to help evaluate India’s GDP after taking into account environmental costs and impacts. | Read more
IPS | 19 February, 2012
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Yale environment 360 | 16 February, 2012
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The New York Times | 15 February, 2012
U.S. Pushes to Cut Emissions of Some Pollutants That Hasten Climate Change
Hedegaard confident that Rio+20 can deliver
