Reports and Documents

Mandatory permits and a cess on groundwater use to irrigate cash crops, run industry or for mining are among the measures proposed by the Government in a draft Bill that aims at conserving groundwater.

This paper is a preliminary attempt to illustrate and quantify the harm being caused to human health or the environment by the transboundary movements of hazardous waste.

Current technical guidelines for environmentally sound co-processing of hazardous waste as alternative fuels and raw materials for use in cement kilns conform to decisions VIII/17 and IX/17 of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal and decision OEWG-VI

The present guidelines provide guidance for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of wastes consisting of elemental mercury and wastes containing or contaminated with mercury, pursuant to decisions VIII/33, IX/15 and X/[ ] of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes a

The parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal have considered the difficulties involved in identifying and managing used [and waste pneumatic] tyres, given their potential harmful effects on human health and the environment.

The present technical guidelines provide guidance for transboundary movements of used electrical and electronic equipment (further used equipment), in particular on the distinction between waste and non-waste pursuant to decisions IX/16 of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous

The incidence of Poverty in Bangladesh is one of the highest in the world. Millions of people suffer from the hardship of poverty. About one-third (31.5 percent) of its population is living below the poverty line. Moreover, inequality afflicts the persistence of poverty.

Food prices - from crisis to stability has been chosen as this year’s World Food Day theme to shed some light on this trend and what can be done to mitigate its impact on the most vulnerable.

These rules may be called the Kerala Minor Mineral Concession (Amendment) Rules 2011.