Deforestation
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Green cost of infrastructure projects: 40,000 trees
New Delhi: Delhi will be gaining infrastructure and better transport facilities thanks to the Commonwealth Games but that is coming at a cost. The city lost about 40,000 trees to Metro construction, flyovers and other Games-related projects in the past few years.
27/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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HC bans cutting of trees for Tivim cricket stadium
The Bombay High Court at Goa has disposed off a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed challenging the permission granted by Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) for felling 2500 trees for construction of international cricket stadium in Tivim with a direction to Goa Cricket Association (GCA) that no trees shall be cut until it obtains all construction clearances.
The Goa Foundatio
27/08/2010
Herald (Panjim)
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17 trees axed in Gurgaon for lone shooting event
Gurgaon: The Millennium City paid a heavy price for hosting its lone Commonwealth Games event.
26/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents
SMART refutes claims by Greenpeace that it has misled its stakeholders
SMART stands firm in its belief that the independent verification exercise clearly demonstrates that the claims made by Greenpeace were exaggerated or wrong. SMART is not guilty of “Burning up Borneo”. The field verification could not find evidence of burning in land clearing and preparation.
Aug 2010
SMART
Reports and Documents
Exposed: Notorious rainforest destroyer Sinar Mas misled stock exchange and customers
Sinar Mas has been forced into a humiliating climb down as its independent auditors published a statement on their website saying that the audit had been misreported as it has been published and presented. The auditor’s statement reconfirmed that Sinar Mas has been operating in breach of Indonesian law by clearing deep peat and forests without the required permits.
Aug 2010
Greenpeace International
Reports and Documents
Negotiating text - Ad hoc working group on long-term cooperative action under the convention (AWGLCA), twelfth session, 4-9 October 2010, Tianjin, China
At its eleventh session, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative
Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) established drafting groups on a shared vision
for long-term cooperative action; enhanced action on adaptation; enhanced action on
mitigation; and finance, technology and capacity-building, to undertake work on the
Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) established drafting groups on a shared vision
for long-term cooperative action; enhanced action on adaptation; enhanced action on
mitigation; and finance, technology and capacity-building, to undertake work on the
Aug 2010
UNFCC
Reports and Documents
Nurturing nature, while bringing prosperity to people of Western Ghats and at least of six states
Presentation by Prof. Madhav Gadgil on Western Ghats (17th August 2010
WGEEP 5th Meeting).
Aug 2010
Ministry of Environment & Forests
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Court stays felling of trees
Authorities of the Saraswathi Narayanan College in Madurai have been felling trees on the campus without obtaining permission from the govt, the petitioner said
THE felling of trees in Saraswathi Narayanan College campus in Madurai was stayed by the Madurai Bench of the High Court.
THE felling of trees in Saraswathi Narayanan College campus in Madurai was stayed by the Madurai Bench of the High Court.
13/08/2010
New Indian Express (Chennai)
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