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City-level decoupling: urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions

Building upon previous work of the International Resource Panel on Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth, this report examines the potential for decoupling at the city level.

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Global monitoring report 2013: rural-urban dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals

The 2013 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) marks the tenth edition of the GMR since the inception of the report in 2004. The GMR continues to provide an annual assessment of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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Tracking clean energy progress 2013

The rapid expansion of renewable technologies is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in an annual report to the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM).

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National Green Tribunal quashes environment clearance of a thermal power plant in Chhattisgarh State of India

Environment Clearance (EC) for setting up a coal-based Thermal Power Plant in Chhattisgarh has been quashed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) on 16 April 2013.

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The global policy climate

The implementation of policy relevant to climate change, and its impact, accelerated markedly over the last decade, despite the slow pace of international climate negotiations, says Climate Policy Initiative in a new report, The Policy Climate.

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Report of the high level working group on Western Ghats (Kasturirangan Western Ghats Report)

Environment ministry accepts this crucial report on Western Ghats prepared by K Kasturirangan-led 10-member high-level working group and decides to declare the Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) over 37% of the Western Ghats under the Environment Protection Act, 1986. Download, read this report along with related documents, studies and more...

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Natural capital at risk: the top 100 externalities of business

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A new report by the TEEB for Business Coalition estimates the global top 100 environmental externalities are costing the economy world-wide around US$4.7 trillion a year in terms of the economic costs of GHG emissions, loss of natural resources, loss of nature-based services, climate change & air pollution-related health cos

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The Odisha community-REDD project: a brief report on the accomplishments

Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC) evolved as a civil society organization primarily with an objective of consolidating community stake in forest governance.

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