This paper is about excessive overuse of resources and about serious environmental impacts, and the need for a global ecological turnaround. Ideas about a social contract for sustainability are being discussed, and examples given of resource decoupling and impact decoupling. Global environmental...

Tajikistan government has started taking a strong leadership towards sustainable development and combating climate change, as it will be very strongly affected by the impacts of climatic changes in the next one hundred years. It has pledged before the UNFCCC to take ambitious steps in adaptation...