Draft Ecomark Certification Rules, 2023
The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on October 11, 2023, published the Draft Eco mark Certification Rules, 2023. These rules aim to promote environmentally friendly products
Green Products
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Green washing: Do you know what you're buying?
In a United States where climate change legislation, concerns about foreign oil dependence, and mandatory curbside recycling are becoming the
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Assessing certification as governance: Effects and broader consequences for Coffee
Nonstate certification programs have emerged as a new tool for steering the use and exchange of natural resources. Yet, despite being innovative, certification remains controversial. Questions surround how best to engage mainstream businesses in certification and respond to the proliferation of schemes.
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Seeking status: embracing our selfish motives for buying green
The bulk of our motives for buying green are selfish, say psychologists. So would appealing to social positioning help shift behaviours better than moralising?
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Sun shines through for clean technology outsourcing
Leonora Walet HONG KONG THE $39-billion global solar energy market is growing fast, but cut-throat competition means producers must shave costs
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Funding clean technology: Investors, banks willing to go green again
Mumbai: After witnessing a dip in 2009 on account of the global financial crisis, the green sector in India is once again attracting the attention of investors and banks.
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Linkages among resources, climate, and Asian growth
In 2005, China surpassed the United States in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement production; since then, it has been the largest CO2 emitter in the world.1 China's emissions have rapidly increased during the last decade
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Exposed: green consumers' dirty little secrets
Green consumers sometimes take the moral high ground
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Better living through green chemistry
Pass by a chemical plant, and the plumes billowing from its smokestacks may get you thinking. What filthy concoctions are being brewed inside, and what nasty stuff is it spewing into the environment?
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Eco-friendly polythene bags launched
Jammu: The shortage of polythene bags in the market would be now over as its alternative oxo-bio degradable eco-friendly polythene carry bag was launched here today. The inaugural ceremony was organised by RIDI GALA Enterprises. Members of the enterprises highlighted the benefits of the product.
