Over the next five years, 20th-century manufacturing stalwarts like the United States, Germany and Japan will be challenged to maintain their competitive edge to emerging nations such as China, India and Brazil, according to the 2013 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s (DTTL) Global Manufactu
The tool kit on Environmental analysis - Strategic environmental assessment and Environmental impact assessment presented in this report is aimed at providing guidance to the concerned city officials in conducting Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of urban transport plans, programmes and projects
This report provides an overview of UNDP-GEF’s extensive work supporting the development of national renewable energy regimes based around feed-in tariffs.
The prime objective of the guidelines for evaluation of proposals/requests for the withdrawal of ground water, is to focus on a specific part of ground water management viz. ensuring sustainability of ground water both in terms of quantity
Multinational companies operating in the Asian growth economies will be exposed to spiralling environmental risks over the coming decades, according to Maplecroft Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas 2013.
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has received increasing attention in recent years, with claims for its potential as a “carbon negative” technology, to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Wednesday, 14th November, 2012 released the noise and air pollution data results in its annual press release just the next day after Diwali. The findings of the monitoring attributed the bursting of less noisy crackers for the declining trend in noise levels in Delhi vis-à-vis last year. Bangalore.
As per EIA notification issued by Ministry of Environment and Forests in September 14, 2006, the proposed thermal power project comes under category `A’. For such projects, it is mandatory for the project proponent to get approval for Terms of Reference from Ministry of Environment and Forests, (MOEF), Government of India.
In order to assess the impact of the bursting of fire crackers and other predominating noise generating activities on the occasion of Diwali festival in the Jaipur City, Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board has undertaken noise level monitoring at five commercial areas viz.
