From the World Bank to pension funds, efforts are under way to regulate land grabs through the creation of codes and standards. The idea is to distinguish those land deals that do meet certain criteria and should be approvingly called "investments" from those that don't and can continue to be stigmatised as land "grabs".

A new Greenpeace India campaign is gearing up to take on the Indian coal industry, coal ministry and even the Prime Minister. The environmental action group is determined to create awareness about how coal mining in Central India destroys forests, forest dependent communities, endangered tigers and other wildlife.

This new report released by Stockholm International Water Institute shows how continuing current trends in food production could lead to increased shortages and intense competition for scarce water resources in many regions across the world.

This is a draft of the village lighting programme proposed by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy This programme aims to provide basic lighting facilities in remote unelectrified census villages and unelectrified hamlets of electrified census villages through renewable energy sources.

This biodiversity atlas of the Indian waters in the Exclusive Economic Zone overlays available GIS data on oceanic species and habitats, sea grass, seamounts and charismatic megafauna like dolphins, whales and turtles to recommend conservation and management for some areas.

Recognizing growing awareness at both international and national levels of the need for effective social and environmental safeguards, the REDD+ Social & Environmental Standards initiative aims to define and build support for a higher level of social and environmental performance from REDD+ programs.

Constitution of High Level Working Group to study the preservation of the ecology, environmental integrity and holistic development of the Western Ghats in view of their rich and unique biodiversity.

Read this CSE Press Release on the utilization of climate finance by United States to kill the Indian solar panel industry. Says that currently, 80 per cent of the Indian manufacturing capacity is in a state of forced closure and debt restructuring with no orders coming to them, while the US manufacturers are getting orders from Indian solar power developers.

This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of the Performance Audit of implementation of Public Private Partnership Project by Airports Authority of India at Indira Gandhi International Airport Delhi. The Audit covered the period from 2006 to 201

This report of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India contains the results of the Performance Audit on “Allocation of coal blocks and Augmentation of coal production”.