Thursday, 17 December 2009
What is Bhakti?
Bhakti is an ancient Sanskrit word which means Pure Love and Devotion. “Pure” implies that there is no adulteration or mixture of anything else. Love in its highest and most perfect state must be entirely pure and devoid of any other desire than to give happiness and benefit to the beloved, the object of one’s love. In the ancient Vedic literatures, the Supreme object of the love of all beings is the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is the source of all that exists and the foundation of the entire creation. That Absolute Living Being is known by many thousands of names in many languages. But amongst all of these names one of His most prominent and perfect names is KRSNA (pronounced Krishna), which means the All Attractive and All Beautiful. KRSNA is the source of every living being and all energy and is also the supreme controller of all that exists. He is eternal and has no origin Himself. He is ever existent and has an eternal form full of Bliss and knowledge, Sat, Chit and Ananda. Pure Love and Devotion to Him is the supreme perfection of all living beings and by attaining this, they enter into the eternal spiritual world where they can eternally associate with and serve the All-Love Sri Krsna along with His eternal associates.
Source: www.purebhakti.com
Source: www.purebhakti.com
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Monday, 14 December 2009
Proposal: 25 billion dollars to save tropical forests
A global policy to preserve forests and limit carbon dioxide emissions will likely be folded into a draft text this week at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, UN negotiators are preparing a 25 billion US dollar proposal to save tropical forests in more than 10 countries.
"It would be a huge addition to protecting forests,'' says Steve Schwartzman, the director of tropical forest policy at the New York-based Environmental Defense Fund.
Trees soak up greenhouse gas, and their destruction is responsible for almost a fifth of global emissions each year. The plan is to reward investors, for instance by letting them earn carbon-emission credits in return for saving trees, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The newspaper cites American Electric Power Co for saying that forest preservation may be cheaper than funding carbon capture and storage - a process that captures carbon dioxide from industrial and power plants and stores it away from the atmosphere by different means.
However, there is no guarantee that the proposal will be adopted, the newspaper reports. Delegates have met for four days without approving a draft for 10 billion dollars in general climate aid proposed for all developing nations.
Source: http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2934
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, UN negotiators are preparing a 25 billion US dollar proposal to save tropical forests in more than 10 countries.
"It would be a huge addition to protecting forests,'' says Steve Schwartzman, the director of tropical forest policy at the New York-based Environmental Defense Fund.
Trees soak up greenhouse gas, and their destruction is responsible for almost a fifth of global emissions each year. The plan is to reward investors, for instance by letting them earn carbon-emission credits in return for saving trees, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The newspaper cites American Electric Power Co for saying that forest preservation may be cheaper than funding carbon capture and storage - a process that captures carbon dioxide from industrial and power plants and stores it away from the atmosphere by different means.
However, there is no guarantee that the proposal will be adopted, the newspaper reports. Delegates have met for four days without approving a draft for 10 billion dollars in general climate aid proposed for all developing nations.
Source: http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2934
Backwards step for forest deal
A proposal aimed at saving the world's tropical forests suffered a setback Sunday, when negotiators at the UN climate talks ditched plans for faster action on the problem because of concerns that rich countries aren't willing to finance it.
Destruction of forests — burning or cutting trees to clear land for plantations or cattle ranches — is thought to account for about 20 percent of global emissions. That's as much carbon dioxide as all the world's cars, trucks, trains, planes and ships combined.
So a deal on deforestation is considered a key component of a larger pact on climate change being negotiated in Copenhagen.
On Sunday, language calling for reducing deforestation 50 percent by 2020 was struck from the text being considered. And the document only mentions financing without saying how much would go to the more than 40 developing nations in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
The Europeans want to put in a shorter-term goal, "and the rain forest nations are saying that we are happy to have a goal as long as it's balanced by appropriate funding ... which is missing from the text," said Federica Bietta, the deputy director of the Coalition for Rain Forest Nations. The group represents most of the countries that could take part in a forest scheme.
Antonio Gabriel La Vina, the lead negotiator in the forest talks and author of the latest draft, downplayed the changes and said it was a compromise between those who wanted hard targets and those who didn't.
Environmentalists earlier this month hailed the forest talks as one area where negotiations were progressing and some suggested they could serve as a catalyst to inking a larger climate deal here in Copenhagen.
But they have fallen victim to the same bickering between rich and poor nations which has slowed progress on the wider agreement. There are still no firm figures on financing or cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the larger agreement.
Source: http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2968
Destruction of forests — burning or cutting trees to clear land for plantations or cattle ranches — is thought to account for about 20 percent of global emissions. That's as much carbon dioxide as all the world's cars, trucks, trains, planes and ships combined.
So a deal on deforestation is considered a key component of a larger pact on climate change being negotiated in Copenhagen.
On Sunday, language calling for reducing deforestation 50 percent by 2020 was struck from the text being considered. And the document only mentions financing without saying how much would go to the more than 40 developing nations in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
The Europeans want to put in a shorter-term goal, "and the rain forest nations are saying that we are happy to have a goal as long as it's balanced by appropriate funding ... which is missing from the text," said Federica Bietta, the deputy director of the Coalition for Rain Forest Nations. The group represents most of the countries that could take part in a forest scheme.
Antonio Gabriel La Vina, the lead negotiator in the forest talks and author of the latest draft, downplayed the changes and said it was a compromise between those who wanted hard targets and those who didn't.
Environmentalists earlier this month hailed the forest talks as one area where negotiations were progressing and some suggested they could serve as a catalyst to inking a larger climate deal here in Copenhagen.
But they have fallen victim to the same bickering between rich and poor nations which has slowed progress on the wider agreement. There are still no firm figures on financing or cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the larger agreement.
Source: http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2968
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