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• Sanitation and water: why we need a global framework for action

  There is a global sanitation and water crisis and governments are failing to act. This report looks at the current international response to this crisis and highlights the low political and financing priority given to sanitation and water. It shows that: overall, aid is rising but the share given to sanitation and water is in decline; sanitation and water are vital to health and education yet are given a low priority by both donors and aid recipient governments; aid is not going to the poorest regions or countries.

  • 01/08/2008

  • WaterAid
  • • Water Supply
    • Sanitation
    • Aid
    • Global
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  Climate change, technology transfer and intellectual property rights

  Technological solutions are imperative in meeting the challenges of climate change. A critical factor in greenhouse gas emissions, technology is also fundamental to enhancing existing abilities and lowering the costs of reducing these emissions.

  • 01/08/2008

  • International Institute for Sustainable Development
  • • UNFCCC
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Technology Transfer
    • Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
    • Bali

• Effluent and emission standards for oil refineries: guidelines

  The effluent and emission standards for oil refineries were notified under Environment (Protection) Act in the years 1986 and 1990, respectively. These standards were same for old & new refineries and considered only few parameters. There was need to include additional parameters viz. Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), etc.

  • 01/08/2008

  • CPCB
  • • Pollution Control
    • Effluent Disposal Standards
    • Drainage
    • Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx)
    • LPG
    • Refinery Technology
    • Oil
    • Natural Gas
    • Industry
    • Petrochemical Industry
    • India

• Performance and development effectiveness of the Sardar Sarovar Project

  The Sardar Sarovar Dam on the river Narmada

  • 01/08/2008

  • Tata Institute of Social Sciences
  • • Environment
    • Dams
    • Narmada Valley Project
    • Irrigation
    • Displacement
    • Rehabilitation
    • India
    • Gujarat
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Maharashtra
    • Rajasthan
    • Drinking Water

• Financing energy efficiency: lessons from Brazil, China, India, and beyond

  Greater energy efficiency is key for shifting country development paths toward lower-carbon economic growth. Especially in developing countries and transition economies, vast potential for energy savings opportunities remain unrealized even though current financial returns are strong. "Financing Energy Efficiency: Lessons from Brazil, China, India, and Beyond" examines the nature of this dilemma and how it may be overcome in practical and operational terms.

  • 01/08/2008

  • The World Bank
  • • Energy Policy
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Finance
    • China
    • Brazil
    • India

• Poverty eradication/alleviation in North East India : an approach

  The NEC Shillong has assigned the National Institute of Rural Development, North Eastern Regional Centre (NIRD-NERC), Guwahati to prepare a report on

  • 01/08/2008

  • National Institute of Rural Development
  • • North East
    • Rural Development
    • Poverty
    • Anti-Poverty Programmes
    • India

• Understanding and supporting the role of local organisations in sustainable development

  Local organisations have a major role in addressing these realities, helping poor groups access entitlements and engage with government. They may be local NGOs, grassroots organisations of the poor, or even local governments or branches of higher levels of government. But they function on a local level, have intimate knowledge of the local context and should be accountable to local people.

  • 01/08/2008

  • IIED
  • • Environment
    • NGO
    • Global
    • Sustainable Development
    • Environment Management
    • Poverty
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  Biofuels and the food price crisis: a survey of the issues

  While the precise contribution of biofuels to surging food prices is difficult to know, policies promoting production of the current generation of biofuels are not achieving their stated objectives of increased energy independence or reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Reaching the congressionally mandated goal of blending 15 billion gallons of renewable fuels in gasoline by 2015 would consume roughly 40 percent of the corn crop (based on recent production levels) while replacing just 7 percent of

  • 01/08/2008

  • Center for Global Development
  • • Food Prices
    • Food Supply
    • Ethanol
    • Climate Change
    • Biofuel
    • Energy
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Developing Countries

• India's second national communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: work programme

  India is a Party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention enjoins Parties to communicate information about the implementation of the Convention, taking into account their common but differentiated responsibilities and their specific national and regional development priorities, objectives and circumstances.

  • 01/08/2008

  • UNDP India
  • • UNFCCC
    • Forests
    • Land Use
    • Agriculture
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Industry
    • Information
    • India
    • Communication
    • Energy

• Coming clean: the truth and future of coal in Asia and Pacific

  Coal is abundant and affordable in the Asia Pacific region, and for the foreseeable future could be used to meet the region's growing energy needs, but what becomes of those needs when air is too dirty to breathe; water is too polluted to drink; soil too contaminated to grow crops; land is unfit for habitation; and global warming unleashes unimaginable environmental disasters?

  • 01/08/2008

  • WWF International
  • • Water Pollution
    • Air Pollution
    • Land
    • Mining
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Global Warming
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Coal
    • Clean Coal
    • Energy
    • Asia
    • China
    • India
• 

  Facts and trends to 2050: energy and climate change

  This publication provides an overview of key facts and societal challenges related to economic development, future energy demand and the impact that demand could have on the climate system.The focus of this publication is on the world's use of energy and its related impacts.

  • 01/08/2008

  • World Business Council for Sustainable Development
  • • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Energy
    • Global
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  Adaptation under the frameworks of the CBD, the UNCCD and the UNFCCC

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its Fourth Assessment Report, re-emphasized the need for adaptation to address the impacts of climate change on lives and livelihoods across all sectors.

  • 01/08/2008

  • UNFCC Secretariat
  • • UNFCCC
    • Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD)
    • UNCCD
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Biodiversity

• Agricultural water management in smallholder farming systems

  Agricultural water management (AWM) is generally perceived as a key step towards improving low yielding smallholder farming systems in sub-Sahara Africa, South Asia and Latin America. This paper aims to give a first overview of

  • 01/08/2008

  • Stockholm Environment Institute
  • • Cost Benefit Analysis
    • Agriculture
    • Dryland Farming
    • Watershed Development
    • Africa
    • South America
    • South Asia
    • Water Management

• Guidelines and check-list for evaluation of MSW landfills proposals with Information on existing landfills

  The landfill is an unavoidable component in MSW Management and its planning and design, construction, operation & maintenance involves technical skills and safety measures in terms of health and environmental protection.

  • 01/08/2008

  • CPCB
  • • Solid Waste
    • Waste Disposal
    • Landfill
    • Waste Management
    • Municipal Solid Waste Rules 2000
    • India
    • Waste Recycling

• Domestic water pricing with household surveys

  In determining domestic water prices, policy makers often need to use information about the demand side rather than only relying on information about the supply side. Household surveys have frequently been employed to collect demand-side information. This paper presents a multiple bounded discrete choice household survey model. It discusses how the model can be utilized to collect and analyze information about the acceptability of different water prices by different types of households, as well as households

  • 01/08/2008

  • The World Bank
  • • Water Resources
    • Water Management
    • Water Supply
    • Water Pricing
    • China

• The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty

  In assessing the extent of poverty in a given country one naturally focuses on a poverty line that is considered appropriate for that country. However, poverty lines vary across countries in terms of their purchasing power, and they have an economic gradient, such that richer countries tend to adopt higher standards of living in defining poverty. This report presents a major overhaul to the World Bank

  • 01/08/2008

  • The World Bank
  • • Poverty
    • World Bank
    • India
    • Developing Countries

• Agricultural outlook 2008-2017: highlights

  This Agricultural Outlook offers an assessment of agricultural markets covering cereals, oilseeds, sugar, meats, milk and dairy products over the period 2008 to 2017. For the first time, it also includes an analysis of and projections for global biofuel markets for bioethanol and biodiesel, facilitating the discussion of interactions between these markets and those for the main agricultural feedstocks used in their production.

  • 01/08/2008

  • OECD
  • • Agriculture
    • Food Crops
    • Food Prices
    • Trade
    • Biofuel
    • FAO
    • OECD
    • Global

• Making certification work for sustainable development: the case of biofuels

  This study aims to provide policymakers with an overview of biofuel certification schemes that are already in place or being developed, including: benefits and drawbacks of such schemes;

  • 01/08/2008

  • United Nations
  • • WTO
    • Biomass
    • Biofuel
    • Sustainable Development
    • Developing Countries
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  Furthering EU objectives on climate change and clean energy: building partnerships with major developing economies

  This report focuses on how foreign policy can help to further EU objectives on climate change and clean energy, looking specifically at how the EU can more effectively partner with large developing emitters in supporting a global transformation to cleaner energy systems over the first half of this century.

  • 01/08/2008

  • International Institute for Sustainable Development
  • • Climate Change
    • Economy
    • Energy Policy
    • Energy
    • Developing Countries
    • European Union (EU)

• Policy priorities for sustainable mountain development

  The workshop,

  • 01/08/2008

  • ICIMOD
  • • Environment
    • Himalaya
    • Water Resources
    • Brahmaputra
    • Ganga
    • Meghna
    • Water Management
    • People
    • Biodiversity Conservation
    • India
    • Sustainable Development
    • South Asia
    • Mountains