Reports and Documents

The Government of Sikkim on June 22, 2023, notified Sikkim Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) (Repealing) Act, 2023. The following has been stated- The Sikkim Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 1997 is hereby repealed..

Nearly 29 million children with disabilities live in Eastern and Southern Africa. Each of them – like every child in the world – has the right to be nurtured and supported through responsive care and education, to receive adequate nutrition and social protection, and to enjoy play and leisure time. Too often, however, such rights are denied.

The high hanging fruit of mitigation potential refers to the technologies and measures to decarbonise emission sources that remain otherwise entirely inaccessible to host country governments in the near- and medium-term future, on account of extraordinary costs or other insurmountable barriers that cannot reasonably be overcome.

This Policy Brief explores the scale and nature of commercial opportunities from adaptation to climate change, whilst stressing that adaptation to climate change is also a public good.

Illegal mining remains a significant concern in Chhattisgarh, as highlighted in the Comptroller and Auditor General of India's (CAG) Audit Report on mining of minor minerals tabled in the state legislative assembly on July 21, 2023.

The Joint Committee on the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 presented its report on July 20, 2023. The Bill amends the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980. The Act provides for conservation of forest land. The Bill adds and exempts certain types of land from the purview of the Act.

Despite growing awareness of the scale and adverse outcomes of gender gaps in economic opportunities, progress to address them in practice has been limited to date.

As per the information received from the State of Karnataka, 83 human casualties have been reported due to wild elephant attacks between 2019-20 to 2021-22.

Around 60 per cent wells in urban India have registered a rise in groundwater levels in May 2023 compared to the 2013-2022 decadal average for the month, Tudu told the Lok Sabha.

India aims to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2070 – a demanding task given the country’s ambitious sustainable development objectives.