2nd NUJS Environmental Law Workshop 2013

Hey, The Nature Committee, NUJS (NATCOM) in collaboration with Enviro-Legal Defence Firm (ELDF) and the Asian Law Students Association (ALSA) is organizing the 2nd Annual NUJS Environmental Law Workshop at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata on 23rd and 24th February, 2013. The themes for this year’s workshop are Nuclear Safety and Liability and Biodiversity Conservation. The notification cum Call for Papers is given below 2nd NUJS Environmental Law Workshop_Notification cum Call for Paper Download application form and send us the filled application form along with the write-up before 21st January, here

Kolkata Inter-College Photography Competition 2012-13

Kolkata Nature Photography Competition 2012-13

MOCK RIO+20

ABOUT MOCK RIO+20

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, 13- 22 June 2012, marked the 20th anniversary of UN conference on Environment and Development, 1992 and had ‘green economy in the context of sustainable development’ as one of the principle themes.

Mock Rio+20 gives NUJS students an opportunity to recreate Rio +20. Each participant will get to represent member-state or other stakeholder and re-enact the debates based on the position of their member-state or stakeholders.

THEME: GREEN ECONOMY AND ITS METHOD OF IMPLEMENTATION

Though the Rio+20 focused on several themes, we’ve selected the above theme to enable an in depth study of the theme to realize the intricacies of the debate and the position of the member-states and various stakeholders on the theme.  We also encourage the delegates to come up with innovative recommendations that they think would have fulfilled the objective of the conference without compromising the interests of their country or stakeholder’s positions.

PROCEDURE:

1.      Registration: Interested students will have to send a cover letter mentioning their name, year of study and contact details along with your CV to natcom.nujs@gmail.com by 18th August, 2012

2.      List of participants: The list of participants will be announced on 22nd August, 2012.

3.      Allocation: NatCom will allocate a member-state or a stakeholder to each participant, whom they have to represent in the Mock Rio + 20 by 24th August, 2012.

4.      Submission of Position Paper: Each participant has to submit a framework of their allocated member-state or stakeholders’ position on ‘Green Economy and its method of implementation’ by 17th September, 2012.

The Position Paper should be mailed to natcom.nujs@gmail.com.

Word-Limit: Min 500 - Max 800 words, No footnotes.

Content: Crux of the position on Green Economy and its method of implementation.

Format: any format, even bullet points permissible.

These position papers will be compiled by NatCom to make the zero-document which will be circulated to the moderators and participants by 19th September, 2012.

5.      Mock Rio+20: Delegates will enact the debates on Green Economy of Rio+20 based on the zero- document and will be marked by 3 moderators. Participants will be marked low if they deviate from their stand taken in the position paper during the debates in the conference.

6.      Prize: The best 3 delegates will get the opportunity to be moderators in the second Annual Inter-College Environmental Law Workshop, to be conducted in the next semester. The best delegate will be also receiving a cash-prize of Rs.500.

IMPORTANT DATES

Last date of registration: 18th August, 2012

Publication of list of participants: 22nd August, 2012

Stakeholder allocation: 24th August, 2012

Submission of position paper: 17th September, 2012

Circulation of zero-document: 19th September. 2012

Mock Rio+20: First week of October 2012

Enigmas by Neruda

You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with his golden feet? I reply, the ocean knows this. You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent bell? What is it waiting for? I tell you it is waiting for time, like you. You ask me whom the Macrocystis alga hugs in its arms? Study, study it, at a certain hour, in a certain sea I know. You question me about the wicked tusk of the narwhal, and I reply by describing how the sea unicorn with the harpoon in it dies. You enquire about the kingfisher's feathers, which tremble in the pure springs of the southern tides? Or you've found in the cards a new question touching on the crystal architecture of the sea anemone, and you'll deal that to me now? You want to understand the electric nature of the ocean spines? The armored stalactite that breaks as it walks? The hook of the angler fish, the music stretched out in the deep places like a thread in the water? I want to tell you the ocean knows this, that life in its jewel boxes is endless as the sand, impossible to count, pure, and among the blood-colored grapes time has made the petal hard and shiny, made the jellyfish full of light and untied its knot, letting its musical threads fall from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl. I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead of human eyes, dead in those darknesses, of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes on the timid globe of an orange. I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

Haiku- Issa Kobayashi

Don’t swat the fly
          who begs your pardon
                wringing his hands and legs

e. e. cummings