Sustainability - the unfinished business: challenges in international cooperation
The essays are intentended to show how the quest for sustainable development can provide orientation to all international cooperation.
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Financing the boom in public-private partnerships in Indian infrastructure: trends and policy implications
India has seen rapid growth in recent years in its program of infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs). Despite the surge in demand for finance, local financial markets coped well over the period to 2007
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Technology obscuring equity: historical responsibility in UNFCCC negotiations
According to the concept of historical responsibility, the commitments of individual countries to take action on climate
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Linkages between land management, land degradation, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Uganda
Understanding the linkages between land degradation, land management, and poverty is essential for designing policies that simultaneously reduce poverty, reverse land degradation, and encourage the adoption of sustainable land management practices.
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Bioenergy in the United States and Germany
This study offers important insights into bioenergy policies and related measures in Germany, the European Union, and the United States, including these energy sources
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Guidelines for engaging technical experts in rural water supply and sanitation sector
The Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP) was introduced in 1972?73 by the Government of India to assist the States and Union Territories (UTs) to accelerate the pace of coverage of drinking water supply.
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Carbon Disclosure Project: Asia ex-Japan
The goal of the Carbon Disclosure Project is
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A global financial architecture for climate change
A Global Financial Architecture for Climate Change (Global Financial Architecture) is needed to shift public and private finance and investment flows towards decoupling economic growth from increasing greenhouse gas emissions to a low carbon and
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Governance and sustainable development: the Asian Development Bank perspective
Improving governance and reducing vulnerability to corruption are core development challenges. Development is essentially about reducing poverty, and there is clear evidence that the poor are the most vulnerable to corruption and suffer the most from the impacts of poor governance and weakly performing institutions.
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Application of the emissions trading directive by EU member states
The European Union is running the largest multi-country, multi-sector greenhouse gas emission trading scheme (ETS) world-wide. This report presents the experiences from Member States on the implementation of the trading system. The report for reporting year 2008 covers both specific information on the trading year 2007 as well as some findings from the whole first trading period.
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Climate and energy policies In the United States and Germany: lessons for the future
Few people still doubt that human behavior has an impact on the world
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Ecological limits of hydrologic alteration: environmental flows for regional water management
The Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA) is a new framework offering a flexible, scientifically defensible compromise for broadly assessing environmental flow needs when in-depth studies cannot be performed for all rivers in a region.
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Development and climate change: a strategic framework for the World Bank group
This Strategic Framework serves to guide and support the operational response of the World Bank Group (WBG) to new development challenges posed by global climate change. The WBG recognizes the very complex political process toward long-term cooperative action within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Framework will help the WBG maintain the
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Strategic analyses of the national river linking project (NRLP) of India
This IWMI-CPWF study assesses India
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Solid waste management: standing committee on urban development (2008-2009)
An effective management of solid waste, according to the Ministry of Urban Development, involved a multi-material, multi-source, environmentally sustainable management approach, with following activities associated with it: waste generation; waste handling and sorting, storage and processing at source; collection; sorting, processing and transformation; transfer and transport; and disposal.
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Potential impacts of climate change on U.S. transportation
The primary focus of this report is on the consequences of climate change for the infrastructure and operations of U.S. transportation. The report provides transportation professionals with an overview of the scientific consensus on those current and future climate changes of particular relevance to U.S. transportation, including the limitations of present scientific
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Appropriate technology for water and sanitation: a business development toolkit
This toolkit explains the principles of doing business in poverty-stricken areas, offers a step-by-step business development approach and provides practical tools, tips and background information. The toolkit is based on the experience of entrepreneurs in the water and sanitation sector in India, but is equally applicable to markets in other countries.
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Analysis of technology transfer in CDM projects
This report contains the results of a study analyzing the transfer of technology under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects.
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Every drop counts: environmentally sound technologies for urban and domestic water use efficiency
The focus of this publication is efficient water use in urban and domestic environments and decision-making about sustainable development of human settlements. The book is written as a Sourcebook, highlighting essential questions that will have different answers in different situations.
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Guidelines for the safety assessment of foods derived from genetically engineered plants
The ICMR guidelines to establish the safety assessment procedures for foods derived from GE plants taking into consideration the international Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant- DNA Plants (CAC 2003b).