The WHO has released a guideline for project managers in health-related adaptation to climate change, providing information, tools and recommendations for effective gender mainstreaming, including gender analysis of health vulnerability, adverse health impacts of climate change, and design of gender-responsive adaptation programmes and actions.
India can improve its coal supplies by adopting innovative mining practices and technologies and building better infrastructure for coal evacuation, besides streamlining environment-clearance procedures. Bottlenecks in domestic coal transportation and lack of proper road connectivity further heighten the challenge.
This report explores the interrelationships among rainfall variability, food and livelihood security, and human mobility in a diverse set of research sites in eight countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
This document argues that current and future scale of climate change implies serious loss and damage, especially to the lives and livelihoods of those who are poor, most vulnerable and least to blame.
In order to provide a sustainable industrial growth, a draft industrial policy, 2012 has been formulated. The goals set forth in the policy are intended to create a pollution free, less water intensive and employment oriented industrial growth.
This new report released by ADB analyzes potential fiscal and health, impacts of increasing cigarette taxes in China, India, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. Proposes increasing taxes on tobacco products to bring down the consumption and prevent deaths.
Since the climate negotiations that took place in Copenhagen, in 2009, many countries have submitted quantitative economy-wide greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, proposals, and actions for 2020.
This paper tries to break down the complicated journey of how climate displacement and migration have been handled in legal and normative frameworks, primarily looking at how the issue has been addressed within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Note on dieselization of cars and action plan: a brief summary of Supreme Court directives on toxicity of diesel and growing scientific evidence on health impacts of this fuel.
This paper explores the possibility of linkages between the PAT scheme and the bilateral carbon offset mechanism proposed by the Government of Japan. It is well established that linking a domestic program with any international
