Women, business and the law 2024
Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the 10th in a series of annual studies measuring the enabling conditions that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. To present a more complete picture
Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the 10th in a series of annual studies measuring the enabling conditions that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. To present a more complete picture
The country is expected to generate US$100m on the average annually, following the approval of the Hazardous and Electronic Waste Control and Management Bill, 2016, by Parliament; which will provide for
China has long been a smoker’s paradise: cigarettes are dirt-cheap and regulations so poorly enforced that even small children can buy them. The country is home to one in three smokers worldwide. Recently,
The Ministry notified and put up the draft on its website on May 10, inviting public feedback over a two-month window. More than three quarters of the Environment Ministry’s Environment Supplement Plan
Prakash Javadekar in the two years as Environment Minister was in the limelight for his pro-industry policies and climate diplomacy, but he also faced flak from environmentalists who dubbed dilution of
In a landmark case, seven-year-old Rabab Ali has sued the government for violating her rights, and the rights of her generation, to a healthy life. "I want the government to give me and my friends a
RIO DE JANEIRO – Selective logging, road building and fires are threatening biodiversity in Brazil’s Amazon despite a requirement that rural landowners maintain at least 80 percent of their forest cover
The Pune Bench of the National Green Tribunal has its jurisdiction over Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and Daman and Diu. Despite Goa being the smallest among the three States in this jurisdiction – smaller
The Centre must recall the draft notification which is bad in law and will be disastrous for the ecology. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change (MOEF&C) issued a new draft notification
The Baird government's plan to loosen land-clearing laws in the state may struggle to get through Parliament, with the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party indicating they will heed opposition to the new
The UK's impending decision to leave the European Union (EU) could lead to a "weakening of domestic standards" that fails to incentivise businesses to improve recycling rates and tackle air quality issues,