Mining

New Mines Bill provides for profit sharing

Benefit-sharing with project-affected communities may soon become a reality in the Indian mining industry.

Publication Date: 
13/12/2011
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mining, Benefit Sharing, Mineral-Based Industry, Coal, Illegal Trade
Dams/ Irrigation

Delhi reassures Dhaka “no harm”

India sought to allay Bangladesh's concerns over the Tipaimukh project as two advisers to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday met the Indian ministers for water resources and power, and the Nati

Publication Date: 
02/12/2011
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
India, Bangladesh, Dams, Manipur, Benefit Sharing, Rivers, Water Resources, Barak, Hydroelectricity
Climate Change

Pro-poor benefit distribution in REDD+: who gets what and why does it matter?

Ensuring that the poor or the most vulnerable sections of society benefit from REDD+ projects is crucial to building both national and international legitimacy and to fostering successful delivery of conservation and social objectives.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
Essam Yassin Mohammed
IIED
Tags:
REDD, Benefit Sharing, Ecosystem Services, Landless, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Forests, Environment Economics
Climate Change

Talking REDD+: beyond forestry - joining up and moving forward

This briefing gives an overview of the key REDD+ issues, in particular: integrating mitigation and adaptation actions; addressing tenure; learning from participatory forest management and payment for ecosystems services; taking the right approach to gender; developing safeguards to minimize negative impacts of REDD+; and strengthening South-Sout

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
Isilda Nhantumbo, Leianne Rolington
IIED
Tags:
REDD, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Forests, Benefit Sharing, Private Sector, Women, Ecosystem Services

Overview of national and regional measures on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing: challenges and opportunities in implementing the Nagoya Protocol

In light of the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol, it is important for countries that have or are in the process of putting in place national ABS measures to share their experiences in implementation.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, Frederic Perron-Welch, Olivier Rukundo
Centre for International Sustainable Development Law
Tags:
Genetic Resources, Benefit Sharing, Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), Biodiversity, Asia, India, Global, Traditional Knowledge
Land

Toward land administration systems to support climate change mitigation payments

Climate change mitigation projects in developing countries have the potential for significant negative impacts on land users. In particular, land users with socially legitimate but informal tenure that is not recorded using a statutory process are at risk of exploitation from the powerful elite. A detailed understanding of de facto property rights is important in protecting the
rights of legitimate beneficiaries of climate change mitigation projects, and this is recognized in international declarations.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
David Mitchell, Jaap Zevenbergen
Land Tenure Journal
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Tags:
Land Resources, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Developing Countries, Land Use, Land Tenure, Ecosystem Services, REDD, LULUCF, Remote Sensing, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Afforestation, Benefit Sharing
Mining

Coal min wants block owners to share profit with affected people

The coal ministry has written to finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to make coal block owners share 26 per cent of their net profits under the newly drafted Mines and Minerals (Development & Reg

Publication Date: 
15/10/2011
Priyadarshi Siddhanta
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry of Coal, Coal, Mining, Benefit Sharing, Coal India, Minerals, Tribals
Mining

India Cabinet Approves New Mining Bill

The Indian cabinet Friday approved the draft of a law that seeks to attract investments in mining by simplifying rules and smoothening land acquisitions through higher compensation to people displa

Publication Date: 
30/09/2011
Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong)
Tags:
India, Mining, Compensation, Displacement, POSCO, Benefit Sharing, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mineral - Based Industry
Dams/ Irrigation

Egypt, Ethiopia To Review Impact Of Mega Dam

Egypt and Ethiopia have agreed to set up a technical team to review the impact of a $4.8-billion Nile river dam which Addis Ababa announced in March, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in C

Publication Date: 
19/09/2011
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Egypt, Ethiopia, Dams, Nile, Rivers, Water Resources, Benefit Sharing, Hydroelectricity, Water Disputes, Sudan
Forests

Wealth of forests withheld

In partnership with forest departments, communities across India have raised forests worth millions of rupees in the hope of getting shares in timber revenue. Now that forests are ready for harvest, officials make excuses or give pittance. Read this Special report in Down To Earth.

Publication Date: 
15/09/2011
Sayantan Bera, Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava, Aparna Pallavi & et al
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Benefit Sharing, Forest Conservation, Forest Policy, Forest Resources, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forests, Gujarat, India, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Minor Forest Produce, West Bengal

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