Reports and Documents

September 02,2010

Emissions trading systems (ETS) can play a major role in a cost-effective climate policy framework. Both direct linking of ETSs and indirect linking through a common crediting mechanism can reduce costs of action. Use a global recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model to assess the effects of direct and indirect linking of ETS systems across world regions.
Sep 2010
OECD
carbon pricing.pdf
A major report on securing the future for the Elephant in India was submitted to the Minister of Environment and Forests. The report lays out a comprehensive action agenda for protecting elephants in the wild and in captivity, and for addressing human-elephant conflict.
Aug 2010
ETF_REPORT_FINAL.pdf

The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 seeks to create a mechanism for compensating victims of nuclear damage arising from a nuclear incident.  The Standing Committee tabled its report in Parliament on August 19, 2010, following which the government circulated a list of amendments to the Bill.

Aug 2010

The Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, 2010 that got approved in Lok Sabha on Aug 25, 2010 after government dropped the controversial provision on "intent" as a precondition for holding suppliers liable for a nuclear accident caused by defective equipment.

Aug 2010
Lok Sabha

In one of the first interventions of its kind in Bihar, Greenpeace, Bihar Times and Civil Society Groups of the state today asked political leadership to end the energy crisis by committing to a policy change for adoption of Decentralized Renewable Energy.

Aug 2010

MoEF has rejected Vedanta's mining project in Orissa. Read this final decision by MoEF on grant of forest clearance in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts for proposal submitted by Orissa Mining Corporation on mining in Lanjigarh.

Aug 2010
Niyamgiri hills belong to the Eastern Ghats, and in-situ reserves of metallurgical grade bauxite have been reported from this area. This assumed immense commercial importance during the recent years when the demand of aluminium in the international
Aug 2010

The Department of Mines and Petroleum is the state’s lead agency for regulating mining, petroleum, and geothermal activities in Western Australia. A key regulatory function of the department is to ensure that environmental impacts
associated with resource development projects are minimised, and that

Aug 2010
Mining Australia.pdf

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