The National Biodiversity Authority has released a new set of rules to manage sharing of benefits generated through the use of biological resources. The Biological Diversity (Access to biological Resources and Knowledge Associated thereto and Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits) Regulation 2025 was approved by the Central government and …
Are policies designed to avert climate change (Climate Change Policies, or CCPs) politically costly? Using data on governmental popular support and the OECD’s Environmental Stringency Index, find that CCPs are not necessarily politically costly: policy design matters. First, only market-based CCPs (such as emission taxes) generate negative effects on popular …
This paper assesses the design of the air pollution tax in conjunction with a stringency analysis of the emission concentration limits in the Czech Republic. The analysis draws upon a detailed database containing environmental reporting by industrial stationary sources. The assessment of the emission concentration limits focuses on analysing the …
CO2 emissions from transport are still rising. If immediate action is not taken, more radical measures will be unavoidable in the future. This is the top line conclusion from the newly released joint report by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), REN21 and the Berlin-based think-tank Agora Verkehrswende. Titled Towards …
Charges to be operative for 4 months from November 1 on ‘experimental basis’. Pointing out that pollution caused by traffic entering or passing through Delhi inflicts heavy cost on the health of the residents of the capital, the Supreme Court on Monday slapped an environment compensation surcharge on all light …
The court also ordered toll collectors to put in place radio frequency identification systems at the nine main entry points in the city by November 30. Commercial vehicles entering Delhi would have to pay an environment compensatory charge, the Supreme Court ordered on Monday. A bench headed by Chief Justice …
Charges will be Rs 700 for light duty vehicles and two-axle vehicles and Rs 1,300 for three-axle and above. The Supreme Court on Monday imposed an ‘Environment Compensation Charge’ (ECC) on commercial vehicles entering Delhi, in addition to the toll tax, from November 1 for four months on a trial …
Light duty vehicles would have to pay Rs 700 and three-axle vehicles Rs 1,300 for entering Delhi in addition to the toll tax from November 1, with the Supreme Court today imposing the ‘Environment Compensation Charge’ in a bid to check high pollution levels in the city. The apex court’s …
Big trucks entering Delhi will have to pay Rs 1,300 and smaller commercial vehicles Rs 700 with the Supreme Court today ordering an experimental pollution compensation charge from November 1. The court directed the Delhi government to impose the fee, which will be in addition to the standard toll tax …
Beginning November 1, trucks, light goods vehicles and heavy containers passing through Delhi will have to pay `700 or `1,300 (depending on the category of vehicle) as the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Delhi Government to collect the amount as a pollution tax on an experimental basis till February …
Heavy Vehicles To Pay `Environment Compensation Charge' At Toll Booths In a move to check high level of air pollution in the capital, the Supreme Court on Monday formally imposed Environment Compensation Charge on vehicles entering Delhi from November 1. Heavy trucks would have to pay Rs 1,300 and light …
NEW DELHI: Delhi government may have welcomed the Supreme Court's order to levy a pollution fee on non-destined commercial vehicles going through the state, but officials admit that implementation by this November may be difficult. As per the SC order, commercial vehicles will be levied a pollution fee between Rs …
Charges on vehicles entering Delhi operative for four months on experimental basis, says Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Monday ordered imposition of ‘Environment Compensation Charge’ to the tune of Rs 700 on light duty vehicles and Rs 1,300 for three-axle vehicles and above, entering Delhi from November 1. A bench …
Manali’s tourist taxi operators invoked ‘Black Carbon Theory,’ global warming and the Indian middle class idea of an annual holiday at the picturesque Himalayan hill station to successfully get the Supreme Court admit their case against the cess imposed on them by the National Green Tribunal. Earlier this month, the …
This paper examines the feasibility of implementing a congestion tax for the city of Chennai in the State of Tamil Nadu. Based on secondary data, it calculates the time cost, fuel cost and cost of emissions due to congestion and makes recommendations regarding the effective design and application of such …
The world's major economies are falling further behind every year in terms of meeting the rate of carbon emission reductions needed to stop global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees this century, a report published on Monday showed. The sixth annual Low Carbon Economy Index report from professional services …
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Delhi government on a plea to levy higher tax on car owners and making diesel-run cars more expensive. The plea, moved by amicus curiae and senior advocate Harish Salve, was filed in the wake of a rise in the air pollution …
European Commission last week proposed to make all airlines pay for emissions over European airspace. India voiced firm opposition on Tuesday to EU plans to impose a scaled-back carbon charge on flights over European airspace while a senior US lawmaker said the EU proposal runs afoul of a law intended …
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report says pollution will become biggest cause of premature death, killing an estimated 3.6 million people a year by 2050. Urban air pollution is set to become the biggest environmental cause of premature death in the coming decades, overtaking even such mass killers as poor …
Used by governments for decades, market-based policies are mechanisms to control environmental pollution at various leverage points. They work by changing relative prices – raising the cost of emissions-intensive activities and/or lowering the cost of lower-emitting alternatives – to provide producers and consumers with a financial incentive to adopt the …
New Delhi: Is diesel really dirty? Is slapping a green tax on vehicles that run on the fuel the right way to control air pollution and smog in and around the national capital? It’s true pollution and smog levels are on the rise. But the solution to these problems don’t …
