Reports and Documents

Climate change vulnerability assessments (CCVAs) help us to understand the extent to which ecological and human systems are likely to be affected by climate change and provide information on sensitivity and exposure to changes in climate as well as the adaptive capacity of systems and populations to withstand these changes.

The key objectives of the Industrial Promotion Policy 2014 are: Rationalization and simplification of procedures to ensure effective implementation of policy; To improve investor facilitation and enhance ease of doing business; To create an enabling environment for robust industrial growth; To achieve higher and sustainable economic growth by ac

The transition to a clean and green energy system is an economic and social transformation that is exciting as well as challenging.

The purpose of this paper is twofold: (i) to provide a theoretical framework for analysing international climate policy architectures and their effectiveness, covering

This latest Evidence on Demand report provides topical background information on how the rapid increase in land acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia could impact water supplies.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works employment to tens of millions of rural Indian households.

This working paper is a result of TERI’s year-long study which aimed to develop and test approaches that can increase resilience of infrastructure assets and the services they provide in developing nations. Chapter 1 of the working paper provides a brief introduction to the project.

Market-based policies that put a price on greenhouse gases can reduce emissions cost-effectively while driving clean energy innovation. This brief compares six carbon pricing proposals introduced, or released in draft form, in the 113th Congress (2013-2014).

Particularly after the sharp rise in oil prices in 2008, but throughout the 2000s, there was an unprecedented increase in public and private interest in diversifying energy sources.

Adoption and Uptake Pathways of GM/Biotech Crops by Small-scale, Resource-poor Farmers in China, India, and the Philippines shows how modern biotechnology has transformed farming into a profession that harvests agronomic and socio-cultural benefits beyond promise.