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 …
Bs Reporter / New Delhi August 28, 2008, 0:01 IST Indian companies and exporters could face serious challenges in operating across the developed countries in future as many of them are considering moves to impose
Maharashtra government's plan of increasing the percentage of forest land cover will cost the citizens dear. The plan will levy carbon cess on motorists for the carbon dioxide exhaled and green cess on municipal corporations for using forest resources for drinking water. The Cabinet on Thursday sanctioned the forest policy …
This report gives a detailed account of emissions trading schemes and their potential for environmental mitigation and profit generation. The authors cover the U.S. acid rain program, the Kyoto protocol and its clean development mechanism, the European Union emissions trading scheme, climate exchanges, China's pilot programs, and the possibility of …
Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI THE energy coordination committee headed by prime minister Manmohan Singh has suggested imposition of a carbon tax on polluting power stations. The proposal would club India with a select group of countries that tax carbon emissions directly and boost the renewable energy initiative. The initiative could …
Alarm bells are ringing in Delhi: there is a rumour that the European Union proposes to levy a carbon tax on imports from India. The excuse would be that the EU, together with other signatories to the Kyoto treaty, has done much to cut carbon emissions, even at the expense …
France is to slap an annual green tax on high-emission cars, such as sports utility vehicles, and extend punitive taxes to more environmentally damaging products in an attempt to revolutionise consumer behaviour and combat climate change. Jean-Louis Borloo, ecology minister, said on Tuesday that the government's carrot-and-stick "bonus-malus' tax system …
This book looks at methods to maintain a level playing field for US industry under domestic climate policy. Through an assessment of the economics and trade flows of key carbon-intensive industries, the authors evaluate a number of proposals included in current legislation. They argue that, given the limited role of …
The need for a reduction in carbon emissions was debated at the United Nations Conference on Environment & Development (The Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, resulting in the adoption of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty on environment. The Kyoto Protocol, 1998, …
the European Union (eu) is mulling a "controversial' greenhouse gas reduction plan, through which it will impose a carbon tax on goods imported from countries with no emission curbs under the Kyoto regime. The tariff, seen as a threat to international trade, is part of eu's "carbon equalization system'. India …
It's Earth Day on April 22 and we are no better off. Global warming is a larger threat than terrorism because it will affect each one of us. In India, the Ganges would dry up by 2030, according to UNFCCC. What does this mean? It will be a disaster and …
People are not good at making immediate sacrifices for an abstract benefit in the future, especially when they have a hard time understanding the problem John Tierney Everyone talks about the future weather, but so far nobody has done much about it, not even the many people and politicians convinced …
The current and imminent adverse environment having social and economic impact of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions is a global phenomenal. The governments around the world are increasingly developing or are implementing policies regarding reduction of GHG emission to address the challenge. Because of current and expected regulatory constraints, firms …
An environmental perspective is no longer the preserve of scruffy Greenpeace types, with their nature songs and banner protests. It's been appropriated by the men in suits with their calculators and PDAs who have just discovered the immense money-making possibilities involved in greening the economy. Nowhere is this more evident …
This MIT study examines the role of coal as an energy source in a world where constraints on carbon emissions are adopted to mitigate global warming. The study’s particular emphasis is to compare the performance and cost of different coal combustion technologies when combined with an integrated system for CO2 …
Germany said it would issue 451.9 million tonne say ear of carbon-dioxide pollution certificates from 2008 to 2 012, 0.3%fewer than allowed by the European Commission. Germany cut its planned emission cap because new power plants will need fewer free C02 permits than previously expected, the DEHST emissions trading unit …
