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 …
New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games Village on Saturday got a dedicated power sub-station, the first green grid in north India. Officials said the grid would help meet power demand at the Village during the Games and would provide relief to nearly two lakh people residing in nearby areas. The Rs …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After homes, incandescent bulbs are to be shooed out from the streets also. Decision is now awaited on a scheme for replacing incandescent bulbs used in streetlights with Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs). Incandescent bulb-fitted streetlights are mostly in the panchayats, so the scheme is to be implemented by the …
Expert committee report by Ministry of Power on Economics of LED lighting in India. Identifies major barriers to LEDs penetration and details the road map to be taken up at policy & action levels to accelerate it. This paper looks at the policy option of using a bundled Multi-State Demand …
In the last decade, rising and volatile energy prices coupled with increasing concern about climate change and growing support for action on energy and environmental issues has driven a surge of corporate environmental commitments. Energy efficiency has emerged as a key component of these commitments. Leading firms that give greater …
This article evaluates the implications of uncertainty in the life cycle (LC) energy efficiency and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of rapeseed oil (RO) as an energy carrier displacing fossil diesel (FD). Uncertainties addressed include parameter uncertainty as well as scenario uncertainty concerning how RO coproduct credits are accounted for (uncertainty …
The Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change was endorsed by the Development Committee on October 12, 2008, providing a roadmap for the World Bank Group
Coffee is a major international commodity, and because of this, coffee production has the potential for considerable global impacts on the environment. These impacts can include the consumption of energy, water, land and the loss of native forest. Here we quantify these costs using Costa Rica as a case study, …
The social cost of carbon (SCC), defined as the estimated price of the damages caused by each additional ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere, is the volume dial on government regulations affecting greenhouse gases: The higher the SCC is set, the more stringent the regulatory standards. This …
This paper explore three key issues that relate to the management of Antarctica in the context of climate change: climate change mitigation; climate change adaptation, in terms of the management strategies that could limit the vulnerability of Antarctica
It appears inevitable, absent legislative intervention, that regulation under the Clean Air Act (CAA) will move beyond mobile sources to the industrial and power facilities that emit most U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This report analyze the mechanisms available to the EPA for regulating such sources, and identify one, New …
Energy insecurity, water scarcity, and climate change pose growing risks for the real estate sector in South and Southeast Asia, yet the connections between these trends and financial impacts are not well understood by analysts, investors, companies, and governments in the region. This report presents a framework to assess risks …
Purchased energy and energy-related capital investments represent major production costs in the Pulp and Paper industry. The paper aims in bringing out the stages of improvement in the energy scenario at SPB (Seshasayee Paper & Boards Ltd.).
The electricity sector lies at the nexus of two urgent global imperatives: powering economic activities and livelihoods and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the use of fossil fuels. The international community is looking to multilateral development banks (MDBs) to help developing countries balance these sometimes conflicting imperatives. Historically, developing …
The brief highlights that: new Country Assistance Strategies substantively address climate-related issues; low-carbon growth country studies have been undertaken for Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland and South Africa; the Latin America and Caribbean Region has developed a portfolio of approximately 180 activities with adaptation and mitigation co-benefits totaling over …
The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation refers to sustainable consumption and production (SCP), along with poverty eradication and conservation of the natural resource base, as essential precondition for sustainable development. The idea of sustainable development contains within it the completion of three transitions: demographic, development, and decoupling. The demographic transition is …
China's National Human Development Report for 2009/10 examines some of the key issues related to China's transition to a low carbon economy. The report considers the main obstacles in the short and medium term, the needs of development and transfer of technologies, and the costs, including the opportunity costs which …
The latest UNEP assessment of how 95 countries are progressing towards low carbon economy. Says that despite uncertainty around climate negotiations, countries have forged ahead with low carbon growth strategies in first quarter of 2010. This paper presents a range of indicators assembled to measure how countries are progressing to …
The countries of Asia and the Pacific are highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, with more people at risk than any other region of the world. This places the need to address climate change firmly on the region's economic development agenda. Continued poverty reduction in Asia and …
