Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board in the matter of Suo Moto case titled "Haryana 60.48% groundwater over exploited Kurukshetra worst Jhajjar best says" appearing in the Tribune, January 8, 2025. The CGWA report, May 3, 2025 addresses the issue of groundwater exploitation and violation of …
This paper studies welfare impacts of household energy use & estimates household minimum energy requirement that could be used as a basis for an energy poverty line. Finds that 58 % of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent that are income poor and suggests that …
This brief lays out the business case for national climate and energy policy, and explains why leading companies have decided that legislation that limits GHG emissions is good for their industries. While the details of individual companies
This report aims to propose ideas for CDM reform, targeting international negotiators of the CDM. The Market Mechanism Group of IGES organised the IGES CDM Capacity Building Kyoto General Meeting in order to discuss, among other items, ideas for CDM reform This report presents the findings of the meeting, based …
Energy efficiency and water conservation are each important for the delivery of electricity and drinking water. Energy efficiency can increase affordability by reducing consumers
This publication outlines five priority areas and three modalities, giving ADB's approach to climate change are: expanding the use of clean energy, encouraging sustainable transport and urban development, managing land use and forests for carbon sequestration, promoting climate-resilient development, and strengthening related policies and institutions. These priorities will be pursued …
"Carbon intensity" is the traditional measure of an economy's carbon performance. However, it is incapable of capturing the multidimensional features of an economy's carbon performance, particularly when increased emissions have causes other than poor emitting technology, such as changes in the energy mix or the substitution of energy for labor. …
Beyond the Sum of Its Parts: Combining Financial Instruments to Support Low-Carbon Development provides greater information and clarity on WBG climate financing instruments and to draw lessons for the broader development community on how resources from different climate financing instruments can be combined for expanded impact, increased leverage,and enhanced efficiency.
This paper highlights the challenges involved in accurately identifying and classifying for tradestatistics purposes many of the energy-ef?cient goods used in the buildings sector. It also underscores the importance of policy interventions, regulations and incentives as a major driver of technology deployment, and in some cases, as a major determinant …
A comprehensive water sector audit done by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) in 2005 resulted in recommendations for improvement at two levels: water distribution and water supply energy efficiency to increase the efficiency of the treatment plants. This audit was the basis for a water sector energy efficiency master plan …
The national mission on sustainable habitat approved by Prime minister. It is one of the eight missions under national climate change action plan and aims to make cities sustainable through improvements in energy efficiency in buildings, management of solid waste & shift to public transport. The National Mission for Sustainable …
The Forum of Regulators (FOR) has been entrusted with the responsibility to evolve common and coordinated approach to various issues faced by the various Electricity Regulatory Commissions in the country. The FOR constituted a Working Group on
The report includes: Discussion of the scope of energy subsidies; Estimates of energy subsidies, and identification of the gaps in the existing data and issues around the measurement of energy subsidies; Modelling-based analysis of the implications of phasing-out energy subsidies on the economy, including socio-economic and trade impacts, the environment, …
In the context of generation of electricity from RE sources, there is wide divergence of potential of various RE sources in different states. Also, there is wide divergence in the tariff of different technologies being used for RE based electricity generation and its impact on the retail tariffs. Considering these, …
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency is looking to create a demand for energy efficiency products, goods and services awareness. Anil Sasi Efforts to unlock the estimated Rs 74,000-crore energy efficiency investment market in the country has got a fillip, with IREDA, Power Finance Corporation, SIDBI, PTC India Ltd and HSBC …
poll>> Buildings • US The media often highlights stories of US offices going “green.” But, workers in the US think very poorly of their workplace ambience, says a poll, conducted by software biggie ibm. Less than a third of the 6,500 office workers interviewed said their buildings are environmentally friendly. …
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 …
Mumbai: After years of haphazard development that has turned much of the city into an eyesore for greens, developers are now looking at getting an environmentally friendly tag for their projects. Green parameters are becoming a feature of sprawling residential and commercial projects coming up in Mumbai and the suburbs. …
Draft of Green India Mission, one of the missions under NAPCC released by MoEF. Aims to address climate change by enhancing carbon sinks in sustainably managed forests and adaptation of vulnerable ecosystems & forest dependant local communities to changing climate. The National Mission for a Green India, as one of …
