Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Laxmi Narain Vs Municipal Corporation, Ghaziabad & Others dated 11/11/2024. The complaint of the applicant is that illegal secondary collection point has been setup near Apsara border of Ghaziabad adjoining Delhi on GT road at District Ghaziabad. The allegation in …
The answer to pollution in the Yamuna lies in rethinking the subsidy on water use and building capacity for drainage Every year, on June 5, the world remembers and celebrates the concern for environment in the form of the World Environment Day. But why are we not getting the practice …
Civic Body Will Have To Return Rs 811Cr Taken From Traders If It Fails To Meet Deadline New Delhi: The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) has put the MCD on notice. It has asked the civic body to provide parking on 3,000-odd commercial and mixed-land-use streets by August.
Last fortnight I asked: is India rich enough to pay for the cost of transition to a low-carbon economy? I put the question in the context of current moves in climate change negotiations which demand countries such as India—till now seen as victims of the carbon excesses of the already …
First Unit To Achieve Positive Water Balance By Replenishing More Water Than Used Ratna Bhushan NEW DELHI THE Indian arm of PepsiCo has become the first of its global units to put more water back into the environment than it consumes, the company said. The beverage giant has achieved
The new waste management model should require each firm and each consumer to pay a price for recycling and disposal Should India import and reprocess the world
Climate change negotiations—cold after the freeze at Copenhagen—have warmed up again.In early April, negotiators met in Bonn, Germany, on the possible agreement that could be signed at the meet scheduled in December 2010 in Mexico. This was followed by a US-convened meet of the Major Economies Forum, better named the …
Perhaps, If It Cost Us More To Throw, We Will Learn Not To Throw More The crisis of radioactive cobalt found in the scrap of Delhi's recycling market is over, for now. But let us be clear: Mayapuri is not just about the negligence of Delhi university. It is about …
India can't reduce emissions after 2020 without significantly impacting growth - this is the real climate change challenge Last fortnight, I asked: Is India rich enough to pay for the cost of transition to a low-carbon economy? I asked this in the context of the current moves in international climate-change …
The massacre of 76 policemen in Dantewada by naxalites is reprehensible. Yet we cannot brush aside the underlying poverty, deprivation and sheer lack of justice that are breeding tension and anger in vast areas of rural, tribal India. We cannot say that these developmental issues are long term—as the Congress …
With climate change and global warming all set to script the future course of the history of mankind, there is a call for reinventing development, said Sunita Narain, director of Centre for Science and Environment. Addressing a seminar on environment and sustainable development held on the occasion of launching of
There is a buzz about green buildings. But the question is: what does one mean by building green? And how does one design policies to make the green homes of our dreams? Green is not about first building structures using lots of material and energy, and then fixing them so …
People may never look at brinjal in the same way again. In the last few months, this innocuous vegetable has garnered much public attention and so did the research and development happening in the field of agriculture. R&D; in agriculture which usually misses to impress the media or the people …
What should and can be done to clean the Yamuna? What is the strategy for business-unusual so that we can spend more money but this time get returns of a living and breathing river. One, we need to change the art of pollution control. First, we must understand that rivers …
There I was, zipping down bustling Ahmedabad. The bus stopped at a station, designed so the doors of the bus and the station open simultaneously to let passengers out and in. People were walking to the station, buying tickets and waiting. A notice flashed when the next bus would arrive. …
As I write this page, the Union minister for environment and forests is deliberating whether Bt brinjal can be grown and eaten in India. So, at the outset, let me make my own bias clear. I am not an anti-GM person; I have no ideological problems with the use of …
Ahmedabad: In what could be termed as a compliment for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation bosses, environmentalist and Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) member Sunita Narain on Friday said that the city air was much cleaner now. Narain, who was in the city, also took a ride on the Bus Rapid …
