Marking International Day for Biodiversity today (22nd May), Dilani Hirimuthugodage looks at the Sri Lankan interventions in the wake of its ratification of the International Convention on Biological Diversity 19 years ago. She asserts that concrete steps must be taken soon if Sri Lanka is to safeguard its rich bio diversity, in the midst of the rapid development taking place.

In this special feature article to mark World Water Day today (22nd March), IPS researchers Chatura Rodrigo (Research Economist) and Athula Senaratne (Research Fellow) examine the usefulness of the ‘Integrated Water Resource Management’ approach as a solution to an impending water crisis.   Hydrologists and water resource economists have suggested that by 2030 one third [...]

An e-book of the ‘Sri Lanka: State of the Economy 2012’ containing summary information and visuals of the 7 key chapters is now available for free download. This e-book also contains links to a video presentation of the main highlights of the report.

Marking World Tourism Day 2012, Kanchana Wickramasinghe discusses a pioneering new study that attempts to measure the impact on the environment of Sri Lanka’s booming tourist hotel sector.

  Rio +20 Conference is now underway and is being considered a landmark event which takes place 20 years (+20) after the first Earth Summit held in 1992.  The Conference is the second opportunity to revisit the issues of “sustainable development”. It will be based on two major themes – a) ‘green’ economy in the [...]