In the high court of judicature at Bombay criminal writ petition of 2008 on pesticide residues monitoring study analyzing self collected environmental and biota samples from Padre village in Kasargod district of Kerala for endosulfan residues.
The survey was conducted during the past four weeks by researchers at GlobeScan with the support of the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), along with other contributing organizations.
This paper provides a conceptual backdrop for urban economic impact assessment of climate change and its specific aim is to provide both a conceptual and a methodological framework for OECD
Standing forests are the most important territorial reservoirs to CO2. Reforestry and afforestry CDM projects are the means to sequester carbon. Himachal Pradesh and Haryana are the examples.
The challenge of climate change demands a response from all sectors of the economy. Importantly, action on the part of individuals will be required if greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are to be cut to the levels necessary to avoid the worst
This study sought to identify the initial impact that a global Cap and Share scheme might have on India, based on a set of limiting assumptions. In particular, it attempts to quantify the immediate impact
Biofuels are being touted as a solution to rising fuel prices, growing energy demands, and the need to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. Governments have good reasons for promoting biofuels. Yet, a headlong rush into growing biofuel crops will bring its own problems.
The only tool under the Kyoto Protocol to pay for the transition to clean-energy technologies in developing countries is the
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This was designed with two explicit purposes: to assist developing countries achieve sustainable development and to assist industrialized countries
Threat of climate change is real and urgent and know that combating this threat will require deep and drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The question in Poznan is, how will we re-commit the industrialized world to serious reduction of its
emissions. Poznan must also determine if the world is serious about climate change. We know that the poor are feeling the
