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• Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan, December 2013

  <p>Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan, Dec 2013 Erratic climate change events have hit the rice production in Pakistan this year and to take account of damages, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its end-of-the-season report has downgraded its production forecast for the country by 600,000 tonnes to 8.7 million tonnes (5.8m tonnes, milled basis). Read more in this December 2013 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan</p>

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  • South Asia Environment Portal
  • • Pakistan
    • Environment
    • Climate Change
    • Mining
    • Agriculture
    • Pollution
    • Dams
    • Forests
    • Urban Transport
    • Urban Water Supply
    • Energy
    • Deer
    • South Asia

• 81 power projects take off in 10 months

  In the past 10 months, 81 power projects, worth Rs 3.2 lakh crore, have taken off and seen actual investment on the ground, show data available with the central secretariat’s project monitoring group (PMG).

  • 24/04/2014

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Power Industry
    • India
    • Economy
    • Electricity
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Chhattisgarh
    • Orissa (Odisha)

• State scraps pact with Vijayaa Ferro and Power for 120 Mw plant

  Even after expiry of MoU in April 2013, project proponent had not filed any proposal for extension of pact with state govt. The state Energy department has scrapped its pact with Vijayaa Ferro and Power

  • 24/04/2014

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Orissa (Odisha)
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Kalahandi
    • Dhenkanal (D)
    • Power Industry

• Britain's National Trust starts selling renewable power

  Britain's conservation charity the National Trust switched on its first large-scale renewable energy project on Wednesday and launched a new trading company to sell its power to the country's national

  • 24/04/2014

  • Reuters
  • • Renewable Energy
    • United Kingdom (UK)
    • Europe
    • Energy
    • Biomass
    • Solar
    • Hydroelectricity

• Green groups urge U.S. to drop solar trade case against India

  Environmental groups urged the United States on Wednesday to drop a challenge to India's massive solar program and said the World Trade Organization case would only hurt the growth of renewable energy

  • 24/04/2014

  • Reuters
  • • Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • India
    • United States Of America (US)
    • WTO
    • Fossil Fuels
    • Power Industry
    • Trade

• Supreme Court panel raps Uttarakhand hydropower projects

  NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court-appointed panel has blamed hydro projects in Uttarakhand as being responsible for intensifying the magnitude of the catastrophic floods that hit the state last year leaving death

  • 24/04/2014

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
    • Supreme Court
    • Hydroelectricity
    • Floods
    • Central Water Commission (CWC)

• US EPA cuts 2013 target for cellulosic biofuel

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency slashed its target for 2013 use of cellulosic biofuel to less than a million gallons on Tuesday after the industry failed to meet goals for production of the fuel

  • 24/04/2014

  • Planet Ark (Australia)
  • • Biofuel
    • Energy
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Ethanol

• In Spiti, hydro power projects seen as threat to fragile ecology

  TABO (LAHAUL-SPITI): "At last they entered a world - a valley of leagues where the high hills were fashioned of the mere rubble and refuse from off the knees of the mountains... Surely the Gods live here.

  • 24/04/2014

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Hydroelectricity
    • Tribals
    • Glacial Melt
    • Himachal Pradesh
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Ministry of Tribal Affairs
    • Gram Sabhas
    • Lahul & Spiti

• GoI agrees to develop four JV projects

  An inter-governmental agreement was signed yesterday between India and Bhutan on development of four hydropower projects yesterday. The 700MW Chamkharchhu, 600MW Kholongchhu, 570MW Wangchhu, and the 180MW

  • 24/04/2014

  • Kuensel (Bhutan)
  • • Bhutan
    • India
    • Hydroelectricity
    • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • South Asia

• Parliament to use solar energy

  The whole electricity system of the Parliament would be shifted to solar system within one year. "Parliament of Pakistan would be the first in the world which will be shifted to solar system" said an

  • 24/04/2014

  • Business Recorder (Pakistan)
  • • Solar Energy
    • Pakistan
    • Parliament
    • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • South Asia