Reports and Documents

Several modelling studies have highlighted the risk that biofuel production on agricultural land can displace existing food and animal feed production. This could indirectly lead to the conversion of forests and other natural land into new cropland to compensate for the displaced production.

Diesel engines power the dominant share of goods movement, construction equipment, and public transport vehicles in the global economy. This report presents a global strategy to reduce fine particulate (PM2.5) and black carbon emissions from the global fleet of on-road diesel vehicles. The strategy identifies 36 countries for immediate action.

Do higher food prices help or hinder poverty reduction? Despite much debate, existing research has almost solely relied on simulation models to address this question. In this paper World Bank poverty estimates are used to systematically test the relationship between changes in poverty and exogenous changes in real domestic food prices.

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on River Inter-Linking Under Peninsular Component, 28/11/2016.

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Action Plan on air pollution and smog, 28/11/2016.

China risks wasting $490 billion on new coal plants that will be unneeded as structural changes to its economy, increased non-coal capacity targets, power sector reforms and carbon pricing slashes coal-fired generation, analysis by the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

This report is the concluding scientific product of the Arctic Resilience Assessment, a project launched by the Swedish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. The project’s 2013 Interim Report provided the conceptual foundations for this final report, as well as a detailed survey of resilience research in the Arctic to date.

This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Eighth Report (Sixteenth Lok
Sabha) of the Committee on Public Undertakings (2015-16) on “Corporate Social Responsibility in select Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs)". The Report was

This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Eighth Report (Sixteenth Lok
Sabha) of the Committee on Public Undertakings (2015-16) on “Corporate Social Responsibility in select Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs)". The Report was

Growing interest in the concept of urban climate change resilience (UCCR) recognizes the complexity of rapid urbanization and uncertainties associated with climate change. This working paper synthesizes existing knowledge on urban climate change resilience to identify seven entry points for actions.