As countries around the world face urgent agricultural challenges, the concept of ‘climate-smart’ agriculture (CSA) has been put forward to synergistically achieve climate change adaptation, mitigation, and food security. This new CGIAR paper explores how Brazil, Ethiopia and New Zealand are using integrated policy approaches to CSA.

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Shankar Raghunath Jog Vs Union of India & Others dated 06/08/2014. By this Application, Applicant Shankar Raghunath Jog seeks general reliefs pertaining to determination of question relating to grant of Environmental Clearance (EC) for a mining project, particularly in the context of extension of lease period or renewal of the mining lease in accordance with Notification dated 13 th March, 2013 (S.O.No.674(E) issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).

The 2015 Millennium Development Goal to reduce by 50 percent the share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty was met early. The number of individuals in developing countries who live in extreme poverty had decreased from 43 percent in 1990 to 21 percent by 2010.

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India - Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Report No. 2 of the year 2014) on Social, General and Economic Sectors (Non - Public Sector Undertakings) for the year ended 31st March 2013, has been laid on the table of the Parliament on 1st August 2014.

Air pollution is a leading health risk factor and important contributor to regional climate change in China and other parts of Asia. China’s particulate matter (PM) air pollution dramatically exceeds health guidelines and is impacted by industrial emissions, motor vehicles, and household use of biomass and coal fuels. Black carbon (BC) from biomass and fossil fuel burning is a major climate-forcing component of PM.

Recent estimates indicate that the Antarctic sea ice cover is expanding at a statistically significant rate with a magnitude one-third as large as the rapid rate of sea ice retreat in the Arctic. However, during the mid-2000s, with several fewer years in the observational record, the trend in Antarctic sea ice extent was reported to be considerably smaller and statistically indistinguishable from zero.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of M/s Vishivkarma Bikes Vs. P.P.C.B. & Ors. dated 08/07/2014 regarding the running of an electroplating industry causing pollution, District Ludhiana, Punjab.

Avoiding a lost generation: ten key recommendations to support youth entrepreneurship across the G20, contains both key recommendations and actionable guidance based on best practices adopted by governments across the G20.

The Coal Ministry will crack down on the private and the public sector companies for not developing the mines allocated to them as per timelines issued to them at the time of allocating the blocks.

This paper presents a framework to include feedbacks from climate impacts on the economy in integrated assessment models. The proposed framework uses a production function approach, which links climate impacts to key variables and parameters used in the specification of economic activity.

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