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 …
Have you ever noticed a friend or neighbour driving a new hybrid car and felt pressure to trade in your gas guzzler? Or worried about what people might think when you drive up to the office in an SUV? If so, then you have experienced the power of reputation for …
The basic objective of the National Consumer Policy is the need to ensure that goods, services and technology are available to the consumers at reasonable prices and at acceptable standards of quality. India has a wide variety of consumers, ranging from the highly educated and wealthy whose consumption is focused …
Most climate change policy attention has been addressed to long-term options, such as inducing new, low-carbon energy technologies and creating cap-and-trade regimes for emissions. We use a behavioral approach to examine the reasonably achievable potential for near-term reductions by altered adoption and use of available technologies in US homes and …
The poverty ratio or the number of poor as a percentage of total population in India for 2004-05 is estimated at 37.2 per cent, according to this report submitted by the Suresh Tendulkar committee recently. The committee has defined the poor based on a normative living standard — it has …
Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures, but also between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential, argues this paper. Furthermore, while high international food prices provide appropriate incentives for agricultural development, it would be misguided to expect that they will automatically result in …
Way Out: Govt-To-Govt Imports Or Allowing State Units To Source For Welfare Needs Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI THE rice output for 2009-10 may be weaker at 82 million tonne (MT), a drop of 17 mt over record 99.15 mt output in 2008-09, according to US Department of Agriculture. Considering an …
LUCKNOW: The CNG crisis in the city might get a solution around 2010, when two major CNG stations, planned at Gomtinagar and Aashiana, get functional. The laying of pipelines for two stations has started. Gomtinagar is a mother station waiting in wings for long mainly because GGL has not got …
This document is the first issue of new Policy Brief series, presented by Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI). These briefs are designed to provide timely analysis and policy guidance on emerging subsidy issues. The first brief canvasses the G-20 recent call to phase out subsidies to fossil fuels and considers how …
Atmanand : All types of energy use results in environmental costs. Our transportation, food production, manufacturing, governments, recreation and household management all consume energy. At the same time, our major energy supplies (oil, coal and gas) are finite. They are not renewable, yet we burn through these fuels as if …
NAVI MUMBAI: In a bid to mitigate the power crisis faced by the industries, the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is setting up a natural gas infrastructure at the industrial estates, including Thane, Dombivli, Navi Mumbai, Taloja, Poisar, Palghar, etc. According to MIDC, the corporation plans to supply gas to …
Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn a PhD in industrial engineering and another in economics, after which he returned to India in 1981 to work with …
This paper considers the implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change. It emphasizes that it is not the growth in (urban or rural) populations that drives the growth in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but rather, the growth in consumers and in their levels of consumption. A significant proportion …
FAT in the liver is the new marker for obesity-related complications such as diabetes, heart diseases and strokes. People trying to reduce belly fat to avoid these diseases will have to rethink their lifestyle. The finding is good news for metabolic scientists who have hypothesized for long that liver fat …
THERE is justifiable relief over the fact that the growth rate of the Indian economy has not plummeted as sharply as that of most other countries in this phase of global economic slowdown. With the worst on the global crisis now deemed to be over, India is setting its eyes …
