WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2008
This latest WMO statement contains information for 2008 on global temperature, regional temperature anomalies, global precipitation, droughts, flooding and storms, La Ni
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Nuclear power: a dangerous waste of time
This briefing outlines why nuclear power is a woefully inadequate response to the climate crisis and how, in contrast, renewable energy and greater energy efficiency can deliver in time to tackle climate change, without any of the dangers posed by nuclear power.
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Concurrent assessment of Janani Suraksha Yojana ( JSY ) in selected states
<p>JSY is a safe motherhood internention under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among the poor pregnant women. JSY is a centrally sponsored scheme and integrates cash assistance with delivery and postdelivery
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Conditional cash transfers - Reducing present and future poverty
<p>The potential impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 on living standards in the developing world has given renewed emphasis to the importance of social safety net programs. The right policies can be a smart investment in an uncertain world.
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Bangladesh Household Food Security and Nutrition Assessment Report 2009
Multiple factors contributed to high and volatile food prices in Bangladesh during the 2007/2008 period. A "perfect storm" of international, regional and national conditions delivered a powerful economic shock to the country's food security.
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An assessment of trade in gibbons and orang-utans in Sumatra, Indonesia
<p>This report presents an assessment of the trade in gibbons and orang-utans in Sumatra, Indonesia, including the islands off Sumatra’s west coast (most notably, the Mentawai Islands). Until recently Sumatra and its off-lying islands harboured one of the largest expanses of lowland evergreen rainforest in Southeast Asia.
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2008-2013 Action plan for the global strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
Working in partnership to prevent and control the four noncommunicable diseases — cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases and the four shared risk factors - tobacco
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Fallacies in Indian watershed management programme
The spatial and temporal variability experienced in the weather conditions of a local area as well as the landmass on which they act makes the overall system highly dynamic and therefore complex to understand
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Health effects of exposure to EMF
The purpose of this opinion is to update the SCENIHR opinion of 21 March 2007 in the light of newly available information, and to provide a methodological framework and corresponding guidelines to evaluate
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Request for proposal for review of performance of the grid connected biomass based power plants installed in India
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, is implementing a UNDP / GEF assisted Project on
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ICNIRP statement on the “guidelines for limiting exposure to time‐varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 ghz)”
Since the publication of the ICNIRP “Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz)” (ICNIRP 1998) many scientific studies of the effects
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National mission on enhanced energy efficiency: for public comments
Government of India is designing National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE), which is one out of eight missions planned under the National Action Plan on Climate Change. This note presents a short overview of the planned actions.
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With reference to the application dated 08.11.2008 of M/S Bokaro Steel Plant, B.S.City Bokaro for consent under Section 25/26 of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and that under section 21 of the Air (Prevention & control of Pollutio
With reference to the application dated 08.11.2008 of M/S Bokaro Steel Plant, B.S.City Bokaro for consent under Section 25/26 of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and that under section
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Comparative statement of M/s Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai, 2009: Kutela Bhata Oxidation Pond Out Let
Comparative statement of M/s Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai, 2009: Kutela Bhata Oxidation Pond Out Let.
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Guidelines for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis
This fourth edition of the WHO Guidelines for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis presents up-to-date guidance on the design and implementation of setting-specific surveys and surveillance
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Climate change agenda for Delhi 2009-2012
<p>This monograph by Delhi's chief secretary Rakesh Mehta aimed at reducing Delhi's carbon footprint has identified a set of 65 action points that each department of the administration would have to follow in the next three years.</p>
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Benchmarking urban transport in cities
The Union Ministry of Urban Development has now evolved a system for evaluating urban transport services in cities across India. All cities covered by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
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Choc-A-Block: parking measures to address mobility crisis
Global experience bears out that parking management is one of the most powerful instruments to reduce travel by personal vehicles that also influences commuting choices in favour of public transport. Parking
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Simulation Tigris river flood wave in Mosul city due to a hypothetical Mosul dam break
Mosul dam is one of the biggest hydraulic structures in Iraq. It is located on Tigris River north Iraq and was selected as a case study to predict flood disasters caused by a hypothetical Mosul dam failure
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Training Module on Gender and Climate Change
This disturbing report published by IUCN predicts that the physical, economic, social, and cultural impacts of global warming will jeopardize women far more then men.