Reports and Documents

Letter from State Level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC), Maharashtra to Collector, Nashik regarding environmental clearance for stone quarry proposals dated 26th June, 2013.

The WIR 2013 presents the latest trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and contains in-depth analysis of policy developments, investment prospects, and key emerging issues related to investment -- including financial flows via offshore centres, and divestments.

Read full text of the speech delivered by US President Barack Obama on Climate Change at Georgetown University on 25 June 2013.

Read Al Gore's statement on the US President Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change at Georgetown University on 25 June 2013. According to him, this was a terrific and historic speech, by far the best address on climate by any president ever.

This is a statement on the Uttarakhand Catastrophe dated 25 June 2013, by the India Climate Justice. It calls for proper assessment of the carrying capacity of specific ecosystems and says that the stretch from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi be declared an eco-sensitive zone without further delay.

This preliminary report on Uttarakhand floods by National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) finds that “climatic conditions combined with haphazard human intervention” led to the disaster.

GEO-5 for Business is written for business leaders who are responsible for ensuring that risks and opportunities are understood, addressed, and turned into long-term competitive advantage for their companies. The report assesses the operational, market, reputational, and policy implications of environmental trends on ten business sectors.

Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace released State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2013 report in Barcelona, Spain.

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), as a part of its 68th round survey programme during the period July 2011 - June 2012, carried out an all-India household survey on the subject of employment and unemployment in India.

Throughout the 2000-2010 decade, Bangladesh experienced steady and strong GDP growth of nearly 6 percent per year on average. During this period, poverty rates also demonstrated an impressive steady improvement, falling by about 1.7 percentage points per year.