Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
Initiated in 2005, this study was requested by the government of India to: develop the analytical capacity required to help identify low carbon growth opportunities, up to the end of the 15th Five Year Plan (March 2032), in major sectors of the economy; and facilitate informed decision-making by improving the …
A carefully-crafted mission can bring cooking fuel and electricity to the deprived households in the hinterland India can, rightfully, derive satisfaction from the success in getting the Jawaharlal Solar Energy Mission smoothly off the ground, and that too in a short period of time with competitive large-scale private participation. The …
As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and girls, disproportionately vulnerable to negative climate change impacts in developing countries, have largely been excluded from climate change finance policies …
This overview highlights the main findings of Energy Intensive Sectors of the Indian Economy: Path to Low Carbon Development, a study specifically requested by the Government of India to help identify low carbon growth opportunities for India and contribute to global climate change mitigation.
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has released the key indicators of household consumer expenditure in India, generated from the data collected in its 66th round survey during July 2009 - June 2010. The NSS consumer expenditure survey aims at generating estimates of household monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) and …
This study provides the review of two World Bank experts on the 19 household projects supported by the Bank. The study provides eight lessons, namely: (1) holistic approach to household fuels is needed: the fuel-wood supply has to be sustainable; improved stoves and alternative fuels are needed; and institutions must …
This document contains summary sheet of low carbon development and fossil fuel subsidies. Inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies hinder economic growth and low carbon development as they encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets and impede investment in clean energy sources. Furthermore, fossil-fuel subsidies are inappropriate for addressing poverty as, in most cases, higher …
This review on state of cookstove research & action in the developing nations including India, examines opportunities for technology development and presents a roadmap for scaling up stove programs as transformative tools for sustainable development. Research on improved cookstoves dates back to the 1950s; the ensuing decades witnessed large-scale field …
This paper from Centre for Development Finance (CDF) - IFMR analyzes the product distribution choices available in rural BoP markets to help enterprises evaluate the key drivers of distribution for successful go-to-market strategies. Based on extensive field work with commercial and social enterprises, rural BoP consumers and on rigorous secondary …
The objective of this paper is to shed some light on the benefits of improved access to electricity supply, specifically the benefits referred to as "consumer‘s surplus", which is the difference between what customers are willing to pay for the utilities associated with electricity access and the price that they …
Prolonged civil war has resulted in very poor governance and a battered economy and environment in Afghanistan. Firewood is the primary source of household energy in Afghanistan. But the increased demand and poor management and the collapse of traditional and formal regulatory mechanism for extracting firewood from trees has led …
This new report presents a unique perspective on energy access in developing countries. Presents the experiences of energy use and deprivation of people living in poverty & alongwith recommendations on policy, financing & capabilities towards creation of a vibrant energy access “ecosystem” of energy product and service providers, engaging public, …
Energy poverty is a frequently used term among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is rather loosely defined. Several existing approaches measure energy poverty by defining an energy poverty line as the minimum quantity of physical energy needed to perform such basic tasks as cooking and lighting. This paper proposes …
A study by non-profit Prayas Energy Group, which estimated the total standby energy-saving potential in India, found: TV sets, set-top boxes and personal computers consume 2,700 million units of power annually in standby mode Rural poor had very small standby consumption, followed by urban slums. Urban middle class had the …
This paper studies welfare impacts of household energy use & estimates household minimum energy requirement that could be used as a basis for an energy poverty line. Finds that 58 % of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent that are income poor and suggests that …
The objective of this study is to identify lessons for improving cookstoves in Bangladesh through an evaluation of existing programs, the international experience on improved stoves, and the lessons from successes in the sanitation sector. Bangladesh
THE stuff that makes moth balls also turns up as one cooks. In an experiment that modelled the European restaurant kitchen, scientists found that cooking beef steak on a stove releases naphthalene. That was not the only gas released—from a whiff of butanal used in cigarette lighters to that of …
