Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
This report contains the "Natural Resource Accounting of Goa State' and the valuation of environment and forest ecosystem of Goa state. In this report basic concepts on environmental accounting and different approaches of valuation are described. More specifically report covers the valuation in the specific sectors viz., air, water, municipal …
Global economic growth during the past century has lifted many into lives of unprecedented luxury.The cost has been the degradation of vital ecosystems
We should not wait to cut back on burning fossil fuels until we have developed greener technology to supply our energy needs, despite what many economists are advising their respective governments. Such a waiting game may have deadly consequences. Feb 27, 2008
George Monbiot Britain's official approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are, the more yours is worth This is a column about how good intentions can run amok. It tells the story of how an honourable, intelligent man set out to avert environmental …
Four Standard XI students will compete for the international title For Agastya Muthanna, it's the sight of bleached corals while scuba diving off the Andaman Islands that sparks off his concern over global warming. Quite apart from wildlife, Ann Raymond is shocked by what she has learnt of the human …
The challenge in working with environmental improvements is to select the action offering the most substantial progress. However, not all actions are open to all actors in a product chain. This study demonstrates how life cycle assessment (LCA) may be used with an actor perspective in the Swedish postfarm milk …
Industrial symbiosis (IS) has been used to describe the physical exchange and shared management of input and output materials by geographically proximate firms. Firms that engage in IS are said to belong to an industrial ecosystem. Symbiosis has been found to be motivated by economic considerations, such as lowering costs …
The forest biome of Amazonia is one of Earth's greatest biological treasures and a major component of the Earth system. This century, it faces the dual threats of deforestation and stress from climate change. In this article, the authors summarize some of the latest findings and thinking on these threats, …
China's economic growth in the past three decades has been the fastest among major nations, with an almost 10% annual increase in gross domestic product. However, its environmental degradation has also accelerated, and its environmental sustainability index is near the bottom among the countries of the world.
The study deals with a range of selected issues in the areas of natural resource accounting in land and forest sectors namely physical accounting and valuation issues which are imperative in conversion of physical accounts into monetary accounts and for the integration of the latter into the
The main aim of this study is to make an environmental accounting of the land and forest resources available in Meghalaya so as to reflect the real contribution of these resources to the state's economy. The main objectives in this study are: generation of data pertaining to various components of …
The objectives of this study are to incorporate the natural resources into the State accounts of Tamil Nadu. The specific objectives of the proposed study are to: develop physical accounts for land and water; develop monetary accounts wherever possible; estimate the cost of degradation of water and land resources to …
The Sharma household at Chaina village in Faridkot is buzzing with activity. Charanjeet Kaur is busy ensuring that she does not run out of gram flour, jaggery, green chillies, garlic and neem leaves. No she is not preparing for a lavish lunch. This is a "magic potion' for her two-hectare …
In 2006, Nicholas Stern former chief economist, World Bank and advisor to the UK government, wrote about the economic threat from climate change in the Stern Report. He veers round to an uneasy balance between consumerism and and climate imperatives in a conversation with Pradip Saha and Mario D Souza …
Today the west knows that it has to take action on climate change, thanks to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) and the Stern report. However, encouraged by the Stern report, it believes that the only action needed is to invest in low carbon technologies. But then what about …
air pollution has become the most serious environmental problem for Hong Kong. It is not only affecting public health but also the city's ability to attract and retain foreign investments, an environment survey conducted by the us- based Nielsen Company on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce has revealed …
Asset managers are trying to take environmental and social issues into consideration when selecting companies to invest in. Mutual fund managers were originally bound by law in the us and in Europe to invest in what will bring the highest return. However, as consumer consciousness started changing, mutual funds have …
