Reports and Documents

This report explores how people live and deal with change in order to understand their communication needs and help them respond to changes in climate.

The World Migration Report 2013: Migrant Well-being and Development - the seventh report in IOM’s World Migration Report (WMR) series - focuses on the migrant, exploring the positive and negative effects of migration on individual well-being.

The Delhi Human Development Report, 2013, has been structured around the theme ‘Improving Lives, Promoting Inclusion’. This theme encompasses all the fundamental concerns of human development, that is, improving people’s capabilities; augmenting the choices available to them; assuring the progress of all segments of society in terms of income, education and healthcare; ensuring widespread access to basic civic amenities; and fostering a safe and enabling environment for the various population groups in the city.

This is the report on all-India survey on the situation of employment and unemployment in India carried out as part of the 66th round of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) during the period July 2009 - June 2010.

The UNESCO has released a report titled 'Free Flow. Reaching Water Security through Cooperation,' which was published in the framework of the International Year of Water Cooperation. The report brings together a range of water professionals and stakeholders to share their knowledge and experiences in water cooperation.

The water-food-energy nexus is emerging as a critical issue in Asia and the Pacific. It is clear that solutions must be found to assure water security, thereby eliminating the immediate--and increasing--risk to food security, energy security, and economic growth and stability: water must be recognized as an economic as well as a social good.

This study commissioned by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on the environmental and socio-economic impacts of Renewable Energy (RE) projects in India, particularly from solar and on shore wind farms concludes that existing legal framework or the governance structure to mitigate or manage the environmental and social impacts is sufficient.

The global 2013 Energy Sustainability Index covering 129 countries in this report published by the World Energy Council provides public and private decision-makers with a key tool to assess the sustainability of a country’s energy system and ability for peer group comparisons.

Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) is an upcoming 3,960 MW pit-head coal-based power plant inMadhya Pradesh. The project is the first domestic coal-based UMPP awarded inthe country by the Government of India.

Climate change increasingly threatens the health of our planet and the stability of our economies at the local, regional and global levels.