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India

 Poor enforcement, weak laws make poaching an easy game

On the night of October 1, 1998, when Salman Khan went hunting blackbucks, he was explicitly warned not to do so in the Bishnoi area because only a few have managed to get away from them. Yet Khan and his co-stars Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam, along with local contacts, went ahead and shot two blackbucks.

Publication Date: 
29/09/2007
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Wildlife, Hunting, Poaching, Wildlife And People, Legislation, Public Participation, Personalities, India, Rajasthan, Jodhpur (D), Statistics, Environment Management
Industry

 US municipalities to abolish rights of corporations

more than 100 municipalities in the us state of Pennsylvania are declaring the environmental regulations of the state and federal governments null and void. They have, in fact, passed ordinances

Publication Date: 
30/08/2007
Brad Hinshelwood
Down to Earth
Tags:
Dredging, Urban Management, Urban Environment, Waste Disposal, Industry, Legislation, United States Of America (US), Environment Management
Environment

 India and US renew environment agreement

on april 2, 2007, India and the us renewed an agreement to collaborate on environmental efforts in India over the next five years. The Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) and the us

Publication Date: 
14/05/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, International Cooperation, Private Sector, Governance, India, Environment Management
Transport

 Swedish discount for environment conscious car buyers

The Swedish government has approved a discount to motorists who switch to environment-friendly cars. The rebate of 10,000 kroner (us $1,430), which began from April 1, 2007, will continue till

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution Control, Vehicular Pollution, Energy Policy, Transport, Road Transport, Sweden, Environment Management
Environment

 Working Group on Environment releases report in Kerala

The Kerala Planning Board, for the first time, has taken up

Publication Date: 
14/04/2007
P N VENUGOPAL
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Pollution, Pollution Control, Land Use, Public Participation, Panchayats, India, Kerala, Environment Management
Industry

 Future is bleak

What led to the constitution of a Working Group on Environment (WGE)?
The planning board wanted to move with the times. The Kerala government had a science and technology and environment department since 1987. But the V S Achutanandan government has made environment an independent department. Since the government wanted a roadmap for the functioning of the department, the WGE had to be set up.

Publication Date: 
14/04/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Planning, Kerala, Kasaragod (T), Environment Management
Industry

 News snippets

>> Viacom on March 13 slapped a billion-dollar lawsuit against Google and its affiliate YouTube in New York. It accuses the video-sharing website of massive copyright infringement. It alleges that

Publication Date: 
14/04/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Finance, Services, Industry, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Media, United States Of America (US), Sustainable Development, Environment Management, Internet
Industry

 2006: The waterloo year <br>

T he year 2006 will go down as environment's watershed year. This is not because this year we have had extraordinary success in environmental management; there was also no environmental disaster per se . This year must be remembered because the task of environmental management has come to be even more contested and even more challenged.

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forests, Mining, Industrial Pollution, Dams, Watershed Development, Environment Management
Industry

 2006: The waterloo year

THE year 2006 will go down as environment's watershed year. This is not because this year we have had extraordinary success in environmental management; there was also no environmental disaster per se. This year must be remembered because the task of environmental management has come to be even more contested and even more challenged. Protests against environmental degradation have grown. But so have efforts to deny environmental concerns or to dilute regulations.

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Environment, Environment Economics, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Industry, India, Global, Environment Management, Poverty
Environment

Environmental actions of citizens - Evaluating the submission process of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of NAFTA

The Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters is administered by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), a trilateral institution established by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States as part of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). The CEC received 55 submissions from June 1995 to May 2006, although these remain to be substantially discussed in the literature. This study fills in some of the gaps through an analysis of the submission process from an actor and results based perspective.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2006
Ross E. Mitchell
Journal of Environment & Development
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Tags:
Environment, Environment Economics, Canada, Trade, N C America, Mexico, United States Of America (US), Statistics, Environment Management, Pollution

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