Promoting sustainable development & Community well-being
2019 concludes a decade of exceptional heat, retreating ice and record sea level rise*****UN Climate Conference (COP 25) Spain 2 to 13 December ******Climate change - a bleak future for oceans and frozen regions (IPCC) *****ADD completes successfully Sandwatch activities at Blue Bay and La Prairie******Carbon dioxide levels reach historic highs at 415.26 parts per million*******Neutral ENSO present and expected until March 2020*****The past five years have been the warmest years in the modern record, and 18 of the 19 warmest years have occurred since 2000*****Progress in implementing the development strategies (Barbados, Mauritius,Samoa) for SIDS, the climate change barometer, have been slow
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International
- Bill of Rights for a Lake in US
- Climate change impacts
- Ocean temperatures highest in 2018
- Last 4 years warmest on record
- 2018 Nobel Prize for climate change and innovation
- Third storm in the Arabian sea in 2018
- Hold us back from climate catastrophe
- Testing space elevators
- Photos and rock samples from asteroid Ryugu
- Clean air - A universal human right
- Scavenging carbon from the atmosphere
- New Climate Economy
- Brief history of climate change
- Heavy loss of species due to climate change
- Safeguarding oceans beyond national boundaries for all
- Kiribati acquire land in Fiji for eventual climate refugees
- First Climate Refugees move from the coast in Fiji
- UN Conference on SIDS-Apia, Samoa, September 2014
- Ocean science for sustainable development: Facts and figures
- UN Sustainable Development Goals?
topical articles
Mangrove - Protecting our coasts for posterity
Mangrove forest covered large swathe of the coastal strip of Mauritius. In 1773 Bernardin de St Pierre, the author of the famous Paul et Virginie novel set in Mauritius, observed mangrove near Poste La Fayette. In Mauritius, mangrove is often translated as ‘manglier’ rather than 'palétuvier' but botanically, manglier is different from coastal mangrove.
An eco-village approach to development
An eco-village is seen as a ‘human-scale full-featured settlement in which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world in a way that is supportive of healthy human development, and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future and incorporating multiple centres of initiatives’.
At a time when Mauritius is urbanising rapidly, how far is it practicable to adopt such an eco-village approach to sustainable development?
