Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Daulat Ram Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 09/04/2025. The application has been filed by the applicant alleging that a license agreement was executed on March 2, 2015 between the Governor of Rajasthan acting on …
As India plays host to the Convention on Biological Diversity's 11th Conference of the Parties in Hyderabad in October 2012, this article takes a closer look at the country's legislation on the subject - the Biological Diversity Act (2002).
Indian businesses can have an edge in path-breaking innovations to reduce carbon emissions globally with an enabling regulatory environment and other support. The dust has settled on Rio+20 Conference that concluded with an outcome document, The Future we Want. The outcome has been severely criticised for being devoid of any …
For two decades, the club of rich nations has failed to reduce carbon emissions in a meaningful way. It did not grant emerging markets the atmospheric space they need to develop, and has begun to blame them for slow progress in the multilateral arena instead. Original Source
A deal is one thing. A deal that means progress another. By the end of the three-day UN environment summit due to end on June 23rd in Rio de Janeiro, a hundred-plus national leaders and representatives were expected to approve a 283-point agreement negotiated in advance by their envoys. The …
Trust deficit between rich and poor nations, a legacy of failed climate negotiations, has led to paralysis of ambition. The distance between Flamengo Park and Rio Centro is as huge as the difference in thinking and expectations between civil society groups and governments. Flamengo Park is where the Peoples’ Summit …
New Delhi: India won the day, with the 192 countries gathered at Rio de Janeiro agreeing that eradicating poverty should be given the highest priority, overriding all other concerns to achieve sustainable development. After a bitter fight with the developed countries, which wanted the objective of poverty eradication be made …
Document contains the Statement of Prime Minister of India delivered at the Plenary of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20 Summit), Rio de Janeiro on June 21, 2012. for full text: http://moef.nic.in/assets/rio21062012-a.pdf
The bumpy journey of the Rio+20 summit starts on Wednesday amid speculation and wide disagreements over a number of issues, including green economy, fossil fuel subsidies and sustainable development goals. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is slated to attend along with heads and negotiators from nearly 180 countries. Marking the 20th …
This week the United Nations is holding the Conference on Sustainable Development, hosted by the government of Brazil. It was 40 years ago that the UN Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, in which only two prime ministers, Indira Gandhi from India and Olof Palme from Sweden, …
New Delhi: Should the world commit, even if notionally, to eradicate ‘poverty’ or only ‘extreme poverty’? Or, should countries agree to ‘right to food’ for their people? Negotiating the final declaration of the Rio summit, the US wants to own up to responsibility of eradicating only ‘extreme poverty’, and not …
The document provides the full text of 53 pages final outcome document of Rio+20 Conference adopted on June 22, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, released during United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20 Summit). The document describes: 1) the common vision, 2) Renewing political commitment : a) reaffirming the …
More than a hundred countries now support a French proposal to create a ‘World Environment Organisation’ at the upcoming 20th anniversary conference of the Rio Summit, France’s ecology minister said on Tuesday. ‘More than 100 countries have now associated themselves with the proposal,’ Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet said at a conference in …
Report Also Breaches Firewall Between Rich & Poor. A high-profile panel of the United Nation Secretary General (UNSG) on Global Sustainability has recommended that the world adopt sustainable development targets. The move has been opposed by India and several other developing countries as creating a backdoor for caps on emissions …
Environment Matters interviews Glenn-Marie Lange, program leader, WAVES, and team leader, Policy and Economics, at the World Bank’s Environment Department, on the progress made in establishing global accounting systems that incorporate natural capital.
In 1992 the historic UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, popularly known as the Earth Summit) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil witnessed unprecedented political will and commitment among governments to make a paradigm shift to sustainable development. Acknowledging the twin crises of poverty and the environment UNCED concluded …
The WHO has published a discussion paper on the linkages between health and biodiversity, climate change and desertification, the representation of health in the three Rio Conventions, and the opportunities for more integrated and effective policy. Produced in collaboration with the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the …
The environmental changes that have swept the planet over the last twenty years are spotlighted in a new compilation of statistical data by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), released in a report entitled "Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20". The report is produced as part of …
Eurozone crisis, UN reforms likely to top the agenda of fifth summit of India, Brazil and South Africa The rapidly deteriorating global economic outlook, especially the near-crisis situation in the Eurozone, is likely to top the agenda of fifth summit of India, Brazil and South Africa beginning here on Tuesday. …
Next year, in June, world leaders will get together in the joyful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to mark 20 years of UNCED—the Earth Summit (see Down to Earth, May 15, 1992). Unbelievably, it will be 40 years since the Stockholm conference, when the question of the environment first …
