The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has published the Draft Solid Waste Management Rules, 2015 for public comments .

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has published the draft “Bio-Medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2015” to enable the prescribed authorities to implement the rules more effectively, thereby, reducing the bio- medical waste generation and also for its proper treatment and disposal and to ensure environmentally s

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has published the draft E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2015 for public comments .

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has reconstituted the Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority (KCZMA) by a notification on 31 March 2015.

This publication attempts to present a range of initiatives highlighting enhanced actions in the area of mitigation and adaptation in India.

As directed by NGT, the Ministry Of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in consultation with Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) on 18 August 2015, approved 2014 draft notification of eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary. The Union environment ministry announced that a final notification on this will be issued within a week.

The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has prepared a draft guidelines for conservation, development and management of urban greens. Cities and towns are emerging as centres of domestic and international investments where most of the commercial activities take place.

As a part of the Mountain Initiative, Nepal's Ministry of Environment organized a two-day `International Conference of Mountain Countries on Climate Change' in Kathmandu from 5-6 April 2012. The main objective of the conference was to bring all mountain countries together to make their collective voice stronger at international platforms.

Climate change is a natural phenomenon. Anthropogenic climate change has been accelerated by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), primarily from industrialization, deforestation and increased use of fossil fuels for transport. Scientific evidence, as cited by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), clearly indicates the wide scale of climate change.

These Rules provide for the application form and set out procedures and requirements for obtaining recognition of a zoo by the Central Zoo Authority.