Reports and Documents

The purpose of this Petroleum Exploration and Production Policy 2011 (Policy) is to establish the policies, procedures, tax and pricing regime in respect of petroleum exploration and production (E&P) sector.

This study assesses the status of environmental management in the bee- hive coke oven plants in Assam and Meghalaya. It overviews the environmental issues of bee-hive coke oven plants and also recommends various measures for better environmental management in the beehive coke oven plants.

Water is essential to life. The vocabulary of water percolates into daily conversations worldwide, whether in relation to personal or societal survival, the status and health of the global environment, or to water’s importance in other realms of sustainable development including food and energy security.

The GEF and UNCCD Secretariats have jointly published a book on sustainable land management (SLM) projects, highlighting the impact of many of these projects in achieving SLM, as well as experiences and lessons learned.

Population impacts many aspects of our lives, including issues as diverse as poverty, health, education, water, and forests. Population matters even more today because historically high numbers of people are intensifying these impacts on our well-being at a time when the demographic picture of the world is becoming increasingly complex.

This paper looks at the ways in which clean energy is being governed in India. It analyses and seeks to explain the nature of governance arrangements and policy-making processes around the development of energy sources and technologies defined as ‘clean’ both by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and beyond.

Economic challenges in developing Asian countries have become more complex: urban populations are growing at great cost to the environment, climate change has increased risks of natural disasters, and income gaps within and between developing countries are widening.

Several UN entities have issued a Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, which highlights the role of oceans in sustainable development and offers recommendations ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).

A Bill to establish an independent authority to investigate offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 so as to detect corruption by expeditious investigation and to prosecute offenders and redressal of certain types of public grievances and to provide protection to whistleblowers.

The National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Policy 2011 presently seeks to limit itself to the central objective of promulgating the principles for pricing of Essential Drugs as laid down in the “National List of Essential Medicines ‐ 2011” as declared