Green agricultural policies in developing countries must be carefully designed to reduce poverty, according to a new report published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science.

Reform of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process in India has favored a decentralization process by delegating the responsibility over environmental clearance of certain activities to state-level authorities, but variations in the strength of environmental enforcement across states has resulted in an increase of births for polluting industries affected by the reform in states with lower level of enforcement, finds this working paper published by Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy.