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 …
it was only a few years ago, after Amartya Sen had moved to Harvard from Oxford, with highly regarded contributions in development economics, that the fraternity also had already begun to regard him as a potential Nobel Prize winner. Since then, he had moved from his earlier fields to the …
THE Union government is reformulating environmental clearance procedures in order to speed up green clearances for projects. Officials in the environment ministry have completed almost 90 per cent of the work. The new procedure is expected to be ready within a month. The questionnaire which accompanies the application form for …
the book explains how farming, in its modern avatar, has acquired the dubious distinction of becoming a major polluter from its benign position of an activity in harmony with nature. The book describes how this scenario has changed. Agriculture, which was once bereft of pollution, is now an environmental risk. …
Tourism plays an important role in the economies of both Goa and the Maldives. For the Maldives, it provides 17 percent of the gross domestic product, over 25 percent of government revenue and around 60 percent of the foreign exchange earnings; and for Goa, it generates 13.7 percent of the …
the Rio Earth summit is rapidly fading into our memories as an environmental event. The commitments made at Rio, the discussions of an Earth Charter in Rio +5 followed by the 19th United Nations General Assembly Special Session ( ungass ) for the overall review of the implementation of Agenda …
Everybody from governments to ngos has missed a key point about the Kyoto Conference. Everyone has focused upon the problem of global warming and how developed and developing countries should work together to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The critical issue that we are dealing …
The polite language would be to say that the government of India is inconsistent in its positions on global environmental issues. The impolite language would be to say that the Indian government speaks with a forked tongue. In the last week of June, environment minister Saifuddin Soz was lambasting world …
SANTOSH MOHANTY: Social Research Development Council, Mayurbhanj BABA PANSARE: Parivartan Prabodhini, Pune AVDESH KAUSHAL: Rural Entitlement Litigation Kendra, Dehradun ALLAN WARNER: independant researcher, Dehradun SUNITA NARAIN: Deputy Director, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi NALIN JENA: Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi FARHAD VANIA: research scholar, Coirnbatore RAMAN MEHTA: …
JAPAN would now go for an increase in Green areas and environment-friendly by 20 per cent within five 'We do not have any magical way go& CM solve global environmental at once. We must do our best F seep in local communities where Tadamori Oshima, minister of agency of Japan, …
THERE is a world-wide philosophy of solid waste management based on the principles of waste minimisation and recovery or recycling. These values are creating a basis for joint ventures that will bring together representatives of government, communities, private firms, institutes and international agencies, to address the crises of increasing refuse …
A month ago, I had written how Indian environment ministers spend little time on the larger questions of natural resource management - issues dealing with the mainte nance and enhancement of the health of our lands, water resources, forests, air and wildlife, and the disposal of our wastes. These issues …
THE COVER story of this issue of Down To Earth proves that Indian companies have a considerable potential to reduce wastes and hence, their waste treatment costs. Last year, India became the first country in the world to require environmental audits by law. But the results of this statute, at …
It was June of 1992. The location was Rio de Janeiro. The occasion was the world conference on environment and development. A large number of people had come out on the streets. They were protesting the arrival of George Bush senior, the then president of the US. Just before coming …
The ICEWRM 2015: International Conference on Environment and Water Resource Management aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Environment and Water Resource Management. It also provides the premier interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum for …
Eco Friends, a Kanpur based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has been working in a sustained way over the last fifteen years on critical issues of environmental degradation. A key issue for Eco Friends is protecting the river Ganga from various sources of pollution. Eco Friends has been involved in generating mass …
