Creating awareness about environment, with disaster management and climate change issues is very much integrated with the issue of human rights and environment justice. We believe that poverty eradication is extremely important." Addressing at the curtain raiser function on the eve of the International Seminar on ‘Global Environment and Disaster Management: Law and Society" here today she said, “ The efforts of Governments will help to think in a holistic manner to revisit our priorities in dealing with environmental disasters. Deliberations of concerns, views and processes at such seminar will help in guiding our orient institutes towards playing a positive and meaningful role in this regard."
The Minister said, “Environment as well as natural disaster do not have geographical boundaries, its effects disturb the world causing immense damage. There is a huge difference between need and greed. We often forget what unmanageable scale of the disaster is we face. So our efforts and resources should be towards building disaster management rather than constructive development. Without a concerted international participation, it is impossible to restore environmental sustainability and peace and harmony." She hopes that participants will take initiative and direct discussions to redefine the progress in a constructive environmental sustainability."
Sh Salman Khurshid, Minister of Law and Justice said, “The responsibility is of everybody to maintain justice and success of generations to come. This is a significant milestone for us to have an international seminar. This is the age of convergence and specialized persons from specific fields will discuss together on one platform. We will revive our institute in a targeted way. The government has to respond to convergence. Our methodology and our attitudes towards functions have to change. This conference is taking place at such a time where remarkable inputs will be received. The Message from here is that we have to move in a particular direction when industrial and technological revolution has taken place. The rapid industrial growth which bring pressure on natural resources should be reduced which looks more difficult." Read the full report here.
Source: Press Information Bureau, GOI.
