What is the right to a healthy environment?
The triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution is increasingly affecting the human rights of people across the globe. This Information Note has been jointly
Pollution
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Pollution due to e-waste, 15/07/2019
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Pollution due to e-waste, 15/07/2019. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in 2005 estimated 1.47 lakh ton of ewaste in the country. As per the United Nations University
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Coastal regulations for the Blue Flag Certification of Beaches
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in order to conserve, protect and improve the quality of environment and preventing, controlling and abating environmental pollution has decided to
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Waste-to-energy: panacea for Asia’s pollution problem or a load of rubbish?
Liu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding non compliance of environment norms by the dairies in Delhi, 08/07/2019
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nuggehalli Jayasimha Vs Government of NCT of Delhi dated 08/07/2019 regarding non compliance of environment norms by the dairies operating in Delhi.
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Chinese scientists develop tech to treat contaminated soils
Tao Guangfa, a 67-year-old Chinese villager, still remembers how people used to be afraid to eat corn, rice and other crops in the fields and along a waterway around a local arsenic mine. Tao's hometown,
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UN environment chief joins Tapi clean-up
Mumbai/Surat: “Plastic waste is a great impediment to tourism,” said former United Nations environment chief Eric Solheim on Tuesday morning in Surat. His statement sounded a gong for action. As flamingos
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Environmental pollution due to coal mining, 24/06/2019
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Environmental pollution due to coal mining, 24/06/2019. Different coal mining operations namely, drilling, blasting and material handling contribute to dust generation
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Spiritual leaders join hands to save environment
Various spiritual leaders and Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi shall join an initiative for environment protection on June 5, marked as the World Environment Day, an official said on Monday. The initiative
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No tree to be felled for flyover, says HC
Less than a month after the move to axe 700 “fully mature” trees for a proposed flyover connecting Zirakpur and Tribune Chowk came under the judicial scanner, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has verbally
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Activists accuse aspiring Xolobeni miner of malicious litigation
Activists accused Mineral Commodities and its South African subsidiary, Mineral Sands Resources, of using the court process to discourage activists from opposing the company’s plans to explore and mine