Reports and Documents

Policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are expanding around the world. They are being implemented to deliver countries’ own ambitions to move onto a cleaner development path, and in support of their international climate change commitments.

Policy activity has to increase significantly in order to limit global average temperature increase to 2°C above the pre-industrial level. With currently implemented government policies, greenhouse gas emissions are projected to lead to a warming of 3.7?C by the end of this century, about 0.6?C higher than that under the Copenhagen pledges.

Bangladesh has approved the commercial cultivation of transgenic Bt brinjal, becoming the first country in South Asia to cultivate the genetically modified food crop. Read more in this November 2013 edition of the Monthly Bangladesh State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.

At a time when the true relevance of nuclear power is being questioned increasingly around the world due to the concerns on safety, security and economics, a news item from the Associated Press indicates that f our scientists who have played a key role in alerting the public to the dangers of climate change have asked environmentalists to suppor

Scheme for promotion of grid interactive power generation projects based on renewable energy technologies for wind power projects of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy during the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17).

This report gives guidelines for environmental and social impact assessment for the wind power projects. These could be adopted by project developers, government stakeholders, pollution control boards, and forest departments, in order to upscale wind power generation in India while also incorporating sound environmental management practices. This is an attempt to make wind power development much more ecologically sound.

This policy approved by Kerala government aims to create 500 mw solar power capacity by 2017. It envisages use of tribal land for solar power projects & says that the land ownership rights shall continue to fully vest with the original owner (tribal).Read text of Kerala Solar Energy Policy 2013.

Despite China's rapid advancement towards a green economy, the country is facing significant environmental and social challenges that must be addressed if it is to achieve its sustainable development goals, according to a joint report released by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNE

Technology and high prices are opening up new oil resources, but this does not mean the world is on the verge of an era of oil abundance, according to this 2013 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO-2013) published by International Energy Agency (IEA).

The Climate Change Performance Index 2014 illustrate the main regional differences in climate change performance across the world.No country performed well enough to reach the category ‘very good‘. The highest rankings, with a relatively ‘good‘ performance were awarded to several European countries and Mexico. India was evaluated as ‘moderate‘
climate change protectors along with Egypt and Morocco.