Reports and Documents

This interim report prepared by the expert group set up by Planning Commission under leadership of Kirit Parikh highlights policies needed for the low carbon growth. The main sectors examined in this report are power, transport, industry, buildings and forestry & the recommendations made in this report are to be included in the 12th five-year plan (2012-17).

In a briefing paper on the growth of the telecom sector, Greenpeace said, “It grows at the cost of the climate, powered by an unsustainable and inefficient model of energy generation and usage.” The environmental NGO said that the mobile towers heavily rely on diesel gen-sets to power their network operations.

This report focuses on a crucial piece of the puzzle in the creation of a low-carbon economy - consumers. With three quarters of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions either directly or indirectly attributable to consumer actions, we cannot ignore the significant influence of the public's purchasing decisions on our ability to hit our 2020 climate change targets.

In many parts of the world, the number of large wildfires has been increasing at an alarming rate. Among them, so-called “mega-fires” have emerged. These extraordinary conflagrations are unprecedented in the modern era for their deep and long-lasting social, economic, and environmental impacts. This paper examines eight mega-fires from around the globe. It attempts

Sea levels could rise up to 5 feet by the end of this century, driven by warming in the Arctic and the resulting melt of snow and ice, according to this study by the International Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP). This is more than two and a half times higher than the 2007 projection of a half to two feet by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Ministry of Environment and Forests has ordered the lifting of the stop work order on the construction of the last five spillway gates  of the controversial Maheshwar Hydel Project being constructed on  river Narmada in Madhya Pradesh by the S. Kumars Group of Companies.

MoEF has accepted these recommendations of the Expert Committee on the controversial cement plant of Nirma Industries in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. Says that the plant is situated in an environmentally sensitive wetland area and the construction must stop.

This draft implementation protocol by the environment ministry details procedures for determining critical wildlife babitats within National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries as required by the Scheduled Tribes and Other Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.

Asia-Pacific developing countries will continue driving the global economy in 2011, however high food and fuel prices, and volatile capital inflows pose fresh challenges, the United Nations said in its annual regional social and economic report.

http://www.unescap.org/pdd/publications/survey2011/download/Econimic-and...

Order of the Supreme Court of India on Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) Nos. 7366-7367/2010 between Govt of A.P. & Ors ver M/S Obulapuram Mining Co. P. Ltd.