Reports and Documents

MoEF has informed Supreme Court that the environment clearance given to Nirma Industries for the Cement Plant, Coke Oven Plant and Captive Power Plant in
Bhavnagar, has been revoked. Read the final MoEF order.

Expansion of Alumina Refinery from 1 MTPA to 6 MTPA and Captive Power Plant of 72 MW to 285 MW at Lanjigarh in Orissa by M/s Vedanta Alumina Limited.

Over the next four decades, the global transportation sector will face unprecedented challenges related to demographics, urbanization, pressure to minimize and dislocate emissions outside urban centres, congestion of aging transport infrastructure and growth in fuel demand.

A quarter of world’s forests are in mountain areas. These forests typically have high biodiversity, and provide many goods and services for people both in the mountains and the lowlands, often far away. Mountain forests are important as sources of wood, as well as other products such as medical herbs.

This paper discusses the many limitations of the official poverty lines applied in Sri Lanka (and many other nations).

The World Migration Report 2011 presents available evidence on public perceptions and attitudes regarding migration globally. It analyses the way in which they are shaped and how they can influence and be influenced by policy as well as the media.

This report synthesises the present knowledge about the consequences that climate change can have for the Hindu

India’s central development strategy should be to systematize structural and sector-specific measures the government can implement immediately to promote nutrition security while not losing sight of the long-term changes needed to create a modern, inclusive, and just India.

Women are often in the frontline in respect to the impacts of a changing climate. Globally the world is seeing increasingly frequent droughts and floods which are having economic but also profound social consequences. The women and people of Asia are currently at greatest risk with over 100 million people affected in this region annually.

The third annual report of the UNEP Bilateral Finance Institutions (BFI) Climate Change Working Group shows total climate change financing for 2010 was USD 15.7 billion. That amount includes nearly USD 12.9 billion for mitigation and nearly USD 2.9 billion for adaptation.