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According to professor Kellie McElhaney, founder of the Centre for Responsible Business at University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, companies that empower women are more likely to be companies that act sustainably.

Post Offices in India constitute the largest network in the country offering financial, communication and other retail services. Rural Development supported by reach and infrastructure of Postal Network can write golden chapters of human endeavour and social development.

Myanmar’s fragmented and under-resourced transport sector needs a top-to-bottom overhaul to meet an expected boom in demand for quality roads, railways, airports and transport services in coming years, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) study.

A technical expert committee, appointed by the Supreme Court of India to advise upon open field trials for genetically modified (GM) crops, has recommended a ten-year moratorium on all Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) food crop trials.

In a major development, the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Union Environment and Forests Ministry for River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects has given environmental clearance to the construction of Baglihar Stage-II at Chanderkote in Ramban district by the Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation Ltd. The project, which will of immense importance for the State, will be ready to generate 450 Mega Watts (MWs) electricity by March 2015.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Norway will help Myanmar cope with an exploding tourism sector with a $225,000 grant designed to generate a sustainable tourism master plan.The project will be carried out over nine months, with completion in 2013. The grant, provided by the Government of Norway, will be administered by ADB.

Assam Public Works Roads Department has launched a unique Green Roads Mission in association with the New Delhi-based Central Road Research Institute and Bitchem Asphalt Technologies Limited.

Bhutan’s economy may be growing at an impressive rate but its agriculture sector, which contributes to over two thirds of total employment, is ailing.As production of major food grains continues to decline, the differential growth rate could adversely impact distribution of income and regional dispersion of growth benefits, the study says.

The five-year programme is being brought by the Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT-N) with the economic and technical cooperation of the Ministry for Environment, Science and Technology, Alternate Energy Promotion Center, and the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV), according to state-owned news agency RSS.

THE Heads of State, global business leaders, technology experts, civil society organisations and other stakeholders will convene in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital, from January 13 to 17, 2013 to discuss sustainable development.

Qatar has launched a national research strategy to facilitate its transition to becoming a knowledge-based economy.

Sweden has found new fame. The small Nordic country is breaking records — in waste. Sweden's program of generating energy from garbage is wildly successful, but recently its success has also generated a surprising issue: There is simply not enough trash.

A pilot aquaponics experiment is now underway in the Cook Islands that has the potential to become the South Pacific region's best chance for preventing food shortages.

This training handbook, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a field guide for training urban and peri-urban vegetable farmers in safe practices when using waste water in vegetable production.

Call for Paricipation; Excellent opportunity to learn from and network with leading fundraisers, communication and CSR professionals, representatives of Funding Agencies and Foundations.Higly relevant for NGO leaders, fundraisers, CSR professionals, volunteers, friends of NGOs and all those who desire to gain skills in fundraising!

Call for Abstracts; In order to submit and present an abstract, at least one author must be a current AIAEE member. Deadline : 1 November 2012 

Call for applications; The training approach is interactive: It will use a mixture of lectures, discussions, group work and field trips with the aim to expose you, as far as possible, to all aspects of post-harvest and waste management. Meeting course colleagues from other countries, but with similar interests, leads to exchange of experiences and mutual learning. Participants’ case studies are the basis of the group work. Deadline: 1 February 2013

FMP2012 welcomes presentations covering scientific, socio-economic and policy issues relating to the following Conference Themes Human interaction & sustainability, Governance and Decision-Making,Ecological and Earth Sciences

The International Conference on Sustainable Development and Governance: Building Commerce and Communities, will be a platform for leaders and academics from around the world to consider Management and Governance solutions for the Water, Energy and Waste Management crisis facing communities and industry across India.