Reports and Documents

Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) granted clearance for 'Initial Fuel Loading' (IFL) and 'First Approach to Criticality' (FAC) of Unit-1 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KK NPP) on August 10, 2012.

This report examines the challenges of achieving food and nutrition security and provides an update on progress in implementing sustainable agricultural policies and practices in line with the Rome Principles.

The document contains the Order of Tribunal dated 9/8/12 (Apeal No.25/2012). The parties involved are Vinod R. Patel & Ors (Applicant / Appellant) and Gujarat State Level Impact Assessment Authority & Ors (Respondent).

Read draft mining policy for Goa released by the state government. It states that the closure of mines has to be systematically planned and ecological balance will be restored including utilization of existing pits for water conservation and harvesting of crops.

This exhaustive report by the Parliamentary standing committee on agriculture looks critically at various aspects of the impact of GM crops on health and environment & says that these were overlooked while giving a go-ahead for Bt Brinjal trials in India.

A Bill further to amend the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. This Act may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Amendment) Act, 2012.

This advisory issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) urges the department of Telecommunications to stop allowing new cell phone towers in a one kilometer radius of existing ones, to avoid any negative effects of EMR exposure on the wild life, especially birds and bees.

Supreme Court gave six months to the Central and the Madhya Pradesh governments to dispose of toxic waste lying in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal for the past 28 years. Read this order.

This presentation by Naveen Pawar, CDM National Expert, Technical Support Facility in ADB, delivered on "Indian experience on composting" at Third Workshop on Enhancing the Regional Distribution of CDM Projects in Asia and the Pacific at Manila, Philippines during 18-20 July 2012.