A Bill to address climate disruptions, reduce carbon pollution, enhance the use of clean energy, and promote resilience
in the infrastructure of the United States, and for other purposes.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organised a dialogue workshop on ‘Burden of Disease: Air Pollution among top killers’ at New Delhi on February 13, 2013 in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and Health Effects Institute, Boston US.
This new analysis identifies especially high risk levels in India and the developing countries of Asia where air pollution levels are the highest in the world.
The new India specific findings of the new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, a global initiative involving the World Health Organisation that says air pollution has become the fifth largest killer in India, is shocking.
Air pollution is now the fifth largest killer in India, says the Global Burden of Disease report released by the scientists behind this study at a dialogue workshop organised by CSE, Indian Council of Medical Research and US-based Health Effects Institute.
The Global Wind Energy Council released the 2012 market statistics, showing continued expansion of the market, with annual market growth of almost 10%, and cumulative capacity growth of about 19%. Finds that both the Chinese and Indian markets slowed somewhat in 2012, with their annual installations coming in at 13.2 and 2.3 GW respectively.
These rules may be called the Metro Railways General Rules, 2013 and Opening of Metro Railways for Public Carriage of Passengers Rules, 2013. These rules shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
Read text of Kerala Municipality Building (Amendment) Rules, 2013 approved by the Kerala state government to boost the construction sector. These rules have changed the very definition of 'high-rise' buildings. Also calls for a single-window construction clearance system for large-scale projects.
