The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has to strengthen the public hearing process and make it “meaningful” in the grant of environmental clearances for projects, according to the National Green Tribunal. The Tribunal, constituted under the National Green Tribunal Act 2010, for handling environmental cases, was critical of the …
New Delhi: While the environment ministry fights a pitched battle with industry on green clearances, the one legal tool the aam admi had to fight bad projects has been pushed into limbo by the same ministry. The National Green Tribunal, where any citizen could file an appeal against an environmental …
There are no simple solutions in the environment-development tussle, only intelligent, difficult and sometimes unpopular choices says Jairam Ramesh here is a general belief particularly in the
Young Lok Sabha MPs, aided by some of their senior colleagues, on Wednesday managed to extract an assurance of desired amendments in the Green Tribunal Bill from Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
A MAN ARRIVES for a memorial service for the 1984 gas disaster victims on the 25th anniversary of the world's worst industrial accident, near the old Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on December 3. THE 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster has justifiably attracted considerable attention not only to …
Specialized environmental courts and tribunals (ECTs) are making major contributions to access to justice, environmental governance, and protection of the environment around the world. Their growth is spectacular
The Government on Thursday put in place a more stringent pollution control regime for industrial areas. It came out with its revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), which among others removes the distinction between residential and industrial areas by stipulating uniform air quality limits for both. Industrial areas will, …
An Act to provide for strict liability for damages arising out of any accident occurring while handling any hazardous substance and for the establishment of a National Environment Tribunal for effective and expeditious disposal of cases arising from such accident, with a view to giving relief and compensation for damages …
