The joint Statement issued at conclusion of the meeting of ministers of BASIC Group at Cape Town. Ministers felt that a legally binding outcome on long-term cooperative action under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol should be concluded at Cancun, Mexico in 2010, or at the latest in South Africa by 2011.

This note by Jairam Ramesh to the sixth Major Economies Forum at Washington clarifies India

Procedure for conduct of public hearing by the State/Union Territory Pollution Control Boards/Committees under the EIA Notification, 2006

This document contains the text of remarks made by Shri Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of PM at the Valedictory Session of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit on February 7, 2010.

This document contains the Presentation made by Krishna Kumar, IITM-Pune, to Shri Jairam Ramesh, Hon. Minister of Environment and Forests, on 14 Oct. 2009 in New Delhi.

The presentation is focused on the impact of climate change on India

Ministry of Environment and Forests has been implementing the National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) since 2001 for conservation and management of polluted and degraded lakes in urban and semi-urban areas. The major objectives of NLCP include
encouraging and assisting state Governments for sustainable management and conservation of lakes. Lakes being major sources of accessible fresh water, require well planned, sustainable and scientific efforts to prevent their degradation and ultimate
death.

The Union Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF), the nodal agency for implementing provisions of CBD in India, developed a strategy for biodiversity conservation at macro-level in 1999 and got the Biological Diversity Act enacted in 2002 followed by the rules thereunder in 2004. There is a need now to develop and