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Incentive mechanism for preventing deforestation and promoting conservation of forest ecosystem
Normal Central Assistance and Additional Central Assistance (ACA) are devolved by the Planning Commission to assist the State Governments in specific areas. The present paper details an incentive mechanism for preventing deforestation and promoting conservation of forest ecosystems.
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- Feb 2010
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- Current Science Vol: 98 Issue: 4 pp: 489-498
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Govt identifying wasteland to cultivate diesel-rich plants
In line with the National Biofuel Policy approved by the Centre last December, the Delhi government is identifying wastelands and forestland at present on the city’s outskirts for cultivation of biofuel.
Officials in the Environment department said the government will initially plant jathropa and pongamia plants in the identified wastelands.
- Date:
- 17/02/2010
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Jatropha biofuels: UK investors sell controversial crop as 'green'
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different.
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- Feb 2010
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- Ecologist pp: 1-4
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Jatropha biofuels: the true cost to Tanzania
Billed as wonder crop, the establishment of jatropha plantations on the ground in Tanzania has been far from successful, or, in some cases, ethical: a report.
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- Feb 2010
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- Ecologist pp: 1-4
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Community drive turns barren land into forests
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has targeted afforestation in six million hectares of degraded forest land by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan. In this context, the Government’s initiative to recognise community contribution in forest management needs attention.
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- 15/01/2010
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- Pioneer (New Delhi)
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CPI ask CM to shift power project to forest department’s barren land
CPI state secretariat demanding to stop acquisition process of fertile agricultural lands for upcoming power project in Lalitpur district on Thursday suggested that this project could be set up on forest department’s barren land.
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- 08/01/2010
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- Pioneer (Lucknow)
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IOC wants 50,000 acres for biofuel cultivation in UP
Ajay Modi / New Delhi January 5, 2010, 0:55 IST
New government policy on biofuels may consider financial incentives.
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the country’s biggest oil marketing company, is looking to acquire 50,000 hectares of wasteland in Uttar Pradesh for plantation of non-edible oilseeds, such as jatropha and karanjia, that are used for biodiesel production.
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- 05/01/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Greening wasteland to get city carbon credits
Trapping CO2 Here Can Earn Up To Rs 25 cr
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- 29/12/2009
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Litigation against Nano plant in Guj quashed
New Delhi: The Supreme Court does not want Tata’s ‘Nano’ car project to face a Singur in Gujarat.
On Monday, it dismissed a PIL by a farmers group which had alleged that the Narendra Modi government had allotted 1,100 acres of fertile land at Sanand near Ahmedabad for the Nano project.
- Date:
- 15/12/2009
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Nanjido - a wasteland restoration into world cup park
Nanjido, an island in Republic of South Korea, at the end of the Han River was made a landfill site in 1978. Fifteen years later, the site had to be closed due to the extensive damage caused by the pollution of soil, air, surface and underground water. In 1996, the Seoul Metropolitan Government decided to continue till 2020.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
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- Man & Development Vol: 31 Issue: 4 pp: 25-38
