Energy Safety Nets: India Case Study
<p>Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. The idea of ‘leave no one behind’ is inherent to all the SDGs.
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Shell aiming for net-zero emissions
A new report by Shell unveils pathways to transforming the company’s power, industry, transportation and buildings sectors to reduce carbon emissions. Energy giant Shell has identified a need to transform
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World Economic Situation and Prospects 2019
India will continue to remain the world’s fastest-growing large economy in 2019 as well as in 2020, much ahead of China, a UN report said. According to the UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects
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Green economy as platitude
At Rio+20, the developing world reclaimed lost ground, but nobody committed to credible action A major feature of the “The Future We Want” final declaration adopted by the the Rio+20 Summit on June 23
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Land used for palm oil could double without damaging forests: researchers
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The area covered by palm oil plantations worldwide could double without damaging protected areas or sensitive forests, Austrian researchers said on Tuesday.
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“Ecological recession”: Researchers say biodiversity loss has hit critical threshold across the globe
An international team of researchers has concluded that biodiversity loss has become so severe and widespread that it could affect Earth’s ability to sustain human life. The researchers examined 2.38
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Pakistan making progress in dealing with climate change
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan Wednesday told the United Nations that it had achieved the Millennium Development Goal environmental sustainability target of 12 per cent protected areas and was working to increase
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Human Rights Due Diligence and COVID-19: Rapid Self-Assessment for Business
<p>With the global spread of COVID-19, businesses are facing bankruptcy at an unprecedented scale, resulting in job losses for millions. In this context, confidence in the durability of the global economy,
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Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty
<p>In this paper we make estimates of the potential short-term economic impact of COVID-19 on global monetary poverty through contractions in per capita household income or consumption. Our estimates are
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on coastal management, 15/12/2015
Question raised in Lok Sabha on coastal management, 15/12/2015. The existing policy on coastal management as laid down in the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification, 2011 and Island Protection Zone
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Gender and climate change: evidence and experience
This set of policy briefs seeks to address some of the most pressing policy issues concerning gender and climate change, by drawing on the extensive experience of each contributing partner organization.
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2017 Index of Economic Freedom
The Index of Economic Freedom provides compelling evidence of the wide-ranging tangible benefits of living in freer societies. The Index analyzes economic policy developments in 186 countries. Countries
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Some global brands are getting creative to lower their carbon footprints
According to a new report by the NGO Forest Trends, 314 companies — nearly 20 percent of the 1,896 companies that publicly disclosed their 2014 emissions data to CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure
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First draft of the Post-2020 global biodiversity framework
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature
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Policy makers and ecologists must develop a more constructive dialogue to save the planet
An international consensus demands human impacts on the environment "sustain," "maintain," "conserve," "protect," "safeguard," and "secure" it, keeping it within "safe ecological limits." But, a new Trinity
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Back to Earth
The world has a surfeit of pledges, commitments and treaties. What it needs from the second Earth summit in Rio is firm leadership and a viable plan for success.
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Cutting down emission intensity of GDP to fight climate change: India
The First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to UN, Ashish Sinha said India has considered tapping non-fossil fuel energy sources and creating additional carbon sink India on Tuesday said
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Community action for the global environment
This publication highlights the results and lessons learned in the past 20 years of the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (SGP) and reflects on the contributions of communities to sustainable
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Women and Men in India 2019
Promoting gender equality has been a key priority of the Government and is also plays a focal role in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda 2030. Gender statistics cuts across all areas of official
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding remedial action against violation of environmental norms by Shadilal Distillery & Chemical Works, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 11/02/2022
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vinit Kumar Vs M/s Sir Shadilal Distillery & Chemical Works Pvt. Ltd. & Others dated 11/02/2022.</p> <p>The application seeks execution