Reports and Documents

This book published by Asian Development Bank (ADB) provides examples of possible triple-win solutions for simultaneously reducing poverty, raising the quality of the environment, and adapting to climate change. It consists of sixteen case studies in Southeast and East Asia, and from the Pacific.

Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2014 examines progress in the development and deployment of key clean energy technologies.

This report is the first to evaluate the response to fiscal incentives in 2013 to incentivize the purchase of plug-in electric vehicles in major vehicle markets around the world.

Hydropower is back in the spotlight. Many large dams are now being built after a lull at the end of the last century. And some are being built in the name of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

This is the draft formula to determine the quantum of compensation in case of clinical trial related injury (other than death) prepared by the committee under leadership of R K Jain.

This new report published by U.S. Global Change Research Program assesses the science of climate change and its impacts across the United States, now and throughout this century. It says that climate change is already having significant financial, ecological and human health impacts across the US.

Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 Target 5A calls for the reduction of maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. It has been a challenge to assess the extent of progress due to the lack of reliable and accurate maternal mortality data – particularly in developing-country settings where maternal mortality is high.

This report prepared by consultancy firm Accenture on behalf of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion showcases the Gujarat model of land acquisition as the best practice, which can be emulated by other states with some modifications, to improve the business environment. It also talks about best practices in Gujarat on implementation of e-governance in pollution and single window clearance mechanism in the states of Rajasthan and Punjab.

The American Lung Association’s annual “State of the Air” report finds half of Americans still live in counties where ozone or particle pollutions levels make the air unhealthy to breathe.

The free stand-alone software ADePT-FSM is a very useful tool that has been developed to facilitate food consumption data processing and generate statistics at national and subnational levels.