Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
Industries that over-achieve targets will be awarded energy saving certificates that can be traded like carbon. With the aim to make the industrial sector energy efficient, India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) launched its 'Perform, Achieve and Trade' (PAT) scheme on July 4. The scheme has set energy efficiency targets …
In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, Corinna Hawkes and colleagues provide a perspective from South Africa on the rise of multinational and domestic food companies, and argue that government should act urgently through education about the health risks of unhealthy diets, regulation …
In the light of the great divergence debate, the economic history of Asian countries has attracted increased attention in the past decade. This article brings early modern Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) into the discourse, providing new quantitative evidence on wages, prices, demography and occupations from the Dutch East India Company …
MUMBAI: Expect eight per cent more saving on your monthly electricity bill if you are buying a new air conditioner (AC). The existing criteria of technical standards for energy efficiency in ACs has been enhanced from January 2012 in such a way that new star-rated ACs will save eight per …
Mismatch In Favour Of Production 1st Time Since ’04-05, Prices Drop 25% In 4 Months New Delhi:Strange things are happening in the world of oil. Crude prices have dropped more than 25% in the past four months. Global oil consumption has dropped below global production for the first time since …
Global energy consumption grew at 2.5 per cent in 2011, less than half the 5.1 per cent rate it attained in 2010, BP said in its annual Statistical Review of World Energy, published on Wednesday. India's energy consumption rose by 7.4 per cent to 559.1 million tonnes of oil equivalent, …
Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we review evidence that the global ecosystem as a whole can react in the same way and is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition as a result of …
Increasing population size and per capita impacts are making sustainability a difficult to goal to achieve; this Review explores possibilities for sustainable development.
Biodiversity threats from Red Lists are linked with patterns of international trade, identifying the ultimate instigators of the threats; developed countries tend to be net importers of implicated commodities, driving biodiversity decline in developing countries. Original Source
This year, World Environment Day comes at a time when India’s growth story has run into trouble. With growth at a nine year low of 5.3% in the first quarter, it may seem like an odd time to talk about green growth, which requires re-evaluating fundamental choices made to fuel …
This paper explores the type and quality of linkages between the objective of achieving sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns, and those of poverty alleviation and sustainable development. The paper constructs a theoretical framework based on the analysis of development specialists, as well as scenarios and empirical data which show …
With energy consumption worldwide projected to roughly double in the next 35 years, conventional wisdom says renewable sources of power will play a big role in meeting demand. But the conventional wisdom may be wrong. In a report just published on RatingsDirect, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services says cost, feasibility, …
New Delhi: There has been a six-fold increase in the number of antibiotics being popped by Indians. This includes the retail sale of carbapenems — powerful class IV antibiotics, typically used as a “last resort” to treat serious infections caused by multi-drug resistant, gramnegative pathogens. Research by the Centre for …
The statistics pertaining to income and expenditures of the citizens presented by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) on Thursday has revealed that food accounted for about 57 per cent of the value of the average rural Indian household consumption during 2009-10 whereas it was 44 per cent in cities. …
New Delhi: Stricter energy efficiency norms for air-conditioners unveiled on Wednesday would further reduce your power bills and save up to Rs 1,000 crore by December, 2013, by way of putting lesser load on the supply network. The upgraded norms, framed by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), raises the …
By now it is well recognized that agricultural development is important for enhancing nutrition. Agriculture-nutrition linkage has become an emerging area for research and policy in developing countries like India. Earlier studies have shown that there has been a disconnect between agriculture and nutrition particularly regarding policies. In this context, …
This paper is the product of an independent, Southern drafting group commissioned by the Danish 92 Group. It lays out a Southern perspective on how a Green Economy as discussed in the Rio+20 context must be designed to contribute to – rather than distract from – sustainable development.
Globally, 1.4 billion people lack access to electricity and an estimated 2.7 billion rely on traditional biomass – wood, charcoal, animal waste and agricultural residues – for cooking and space heating. Roughly one third of this population lives in rural India. Over the past two decades, considerable efforts have been …
A proportionate system of assessment of energy consumption will be done in respect of low-tension consumers to give effect to the revised power tariff. Of the two crore LT consumers the category of domestic consumers accounts of 1.6 crore. Following the tariff revision order issued by the Tamil Nadu Electricity …
Ahmedabad: Cold treats seem to be a hit with Amdavadis. The city consumes more ice-cream than bigger cities like Mumbai and Pune, says a report by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham). The report says almost 35% of ice-cream sold in India is savoured by the western region …
