Institutional investors are becoming increasingly concerned that climate change poses a serious challenge to their investments. Despite growing evidence produced by climate science, global emissions continue to increase, and national and international policy responses remain inconsistent.
This report by World Bank & MoUD in collaboration with the states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan & Haryana identifies key elements of a state-wide program for improving water supply and sanitation services and accountability in India.
Read the final guidelines prepared by MoEF and CPCB for implementation of the provisions of the E-Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2011. This also provides guidance on setting up collection mechanism, dismantling and recycling operations.
Protected Landscapes are a strong option for biodiversity conservation in human-influenced landscapes and seascapes. They often contain threatened or endemic species. There is now also a growing interest in the nature conservation benefits of protected landscapes. But do protected landscapes really protect wild biodiversity?
Papers presented at a conference held on 21 September 2011 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The symposium will serve as a platform to discuss the links between climate change, water stress, migration and conflict from a human security perspective.
Environment Matters, the annual review on the environment by the World Bank Group, usually highlights the environmental research, accomplishments, and challenges of the Bank’s regions in the past year.
India’s natural wealth risks turning into a curse if the proposed Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill fails to address extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and weak rule of law in mining regions.
Abstracting from the scientific understanding and technological advances achieved over the last few decades, and relying on a network of several scientific institutions, FAO has packaged a set of tools in this Irrigation and Drainage
Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty. In the past three decades alone, the rate of extreme global poverty has been halved, a remarkable trend that is expected to continue.
