Tag: environmental risks of economic development

Forests plays signicant role in improving rainfall. The growing plants used to intake lot of amount of moisture from the soil and release  90% of the moisture in the atmosphere which after condensation created precipitation. On the othe hand after rainfall they used to hold the moisture in it and aslo heps the soil to hold the moisture. In this ways a cycle goes on and forest improved rainfall.

The tribes Savara, Konda, Adivasi, Oriya, Kuvi, Gadaba are living in the forests of Srikakulam, Vijayanagaram and Visakhapatnam districts. Many changes have occurred in the lifestyles of the tribals when compared to the past. Tribal people are developing due to education.

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), byname Earth Summit, was a conference held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (June 3–14, 1992), to reconcile worldwide economic development with protection of the environment

The Kigali Amendment under Montreal Protocol relating to the phase-down of the production and consumption of HFCs provided for Ambitious Phase-down. This phase down divided countries into groups one of which is that the developed countries were required to slash their use of HFCs by 10% by 2019.

Adilabad is the heavily forested district of Telengana state and it is located in the basin of Godavari river. It occupied an are of 4,153 square km. The main tribal groups in region are Gonds, Kolami, Pradhan and Thoti.

The government environmental policies are made to comprehensively check the degradation of land and water through wasteland management and to provide rules and guidelines to improve the same. Provide for programs and measures to improve the quality of river waters, and to monitor and supervise the development through Environmental Impact Assessment studies which comparatively show figures and data of work done, programs utilized and funds exhausted while drawing the attention of the government to certain neglected areas of the environment.

The Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete ozone layer is a landmark international agreement held under the aegis of United Nations for protection of stratospheric ozone layer. It was signed and finalized in 1987 and subsequently amended in 1990 and 1992. It stipulates phasing out the production of substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. It was ratified by almost all countries globally and came into force on 26 August 1987. 197 countries who were the member of UN ratified this protocol.

The Garo Hills are part of the Garo-Khasi range in Meghalaya, India. They are inhabited mainly by tribal dwellers, the majority of whom are Garo people. It is one of the wettest places in the world. The range is part of the Meghalaya subtropical forests ecoregion.