Reports and Documents

This is the Presentation delivered by Prof. Lavanya Rajamani, Centre for Policy Research, at International Conference on 'Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations' organized by CSE on 1 March 2011 at New Delhi. The presentation deals with the future of compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.

Women are a social group vulnerable to food insecurity despite being primary actors in the food chain. The problem of food insecurity among women is especially rampant in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

The Central Government has undertaken a study, i.e., ‘Air Quality Monitoring, Emission Inventory and Source Apportionment Study for (six) Indian Cities’, namely, Delhi, Kanpur, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru with the help of premier institutions like, IIT-Bombay, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Madras, NEERI-Nagpur, TERI-New Delhi and ARAI-Pune for identifying the various mobile and stationary

On February 15, 2011 the European Parliament adopted legislation that, for the first time, will regulate CO2 emissions from light commercial vehicles (LCV) in Europe. The original legislative proposal was issued by the European Commission in October 2009, and since then it has been debated between the regulatory agencies in Europe.

The American Lung Association’s report "Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-fired Power Plants" documents the range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from coal-burning power plants and the urgent need to clean them up to protect public health.  The report details the dangerous mix of toxic air pollutants that flow from the stacks of uncontrolled coal burning power pl

Efforts to monitor and verify the success of rural sanitation initiatives face many challenges.

The American Lung Association commissioned Environemntal Health & Engineering, Inc. to prepare a report on public health and environmental impacts of hazardous air pollutant emissions from coal-fired power plants that would be a useful resource for the general public.

This publication is the first to focus on the specific needs and challenges of girls and women at risk of, or living with, NCDs.

This research examines how patent applications and the granting of patents developed at the European Patent Office in 2010. It also examines how the EPO has dealt with other applications for patents on conventionally bred plants following the decision on the broccoli patent. The report shows a steadily increasing number of patent applications and patents granted at the Patent Office.

This paper explores notions of participation as located in ‘second generation’ or institutional reforms, particularly as articulated by prominent state-sponsored public-private partnerships such as the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) and the Tamilnadu Urban Development Fund (TNUDF).