Category Archives: Ecology and Environment
India to have green national accounting system soon
India expects to put in place, in five years, a system of green national accounting that will take into account the environmental costs of development and reflect the use of precious natural resources in the process of generating national income
Big is not beautiful
By Medha Patkar, Apr 01 , 2006, tehelka If the Sardar Sarovar Dam’s height is increased, a clandestine move violating Supreme Court guidelines, 35,000 homeless families in the submergence zone will be exiled from their habitat, writes Medha Patkarin a letter to Water Resources Minister Saif-ud-din Soz
Vedanta and lessons in conservation
Sunita Narain The Forest Rights Act of 2006—also known as the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act—came after considerable and bitter opposition from conservation groups.
National Green Tribunal Bill passed in Lok Sabha
May 3, 2010 The long-pending National Green Tribunal (NGT) Bill was passed in Lok Sabha after environment minister Jairam Ramesh accepted some key amendments to the proposed legislation that parliamentarians cutting across party lines had suggested.
Detractors of exponential mining
Moratorium on mining needs to be enforced, not the CM’s mineral policy, says Hartman de Souza While the Expert Panel appointed by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to look into the status of the Western Ghats at its day long meeting at the NIO on 27 September, there is every likelihood that its critique […]
‘Fabricated’ mining EIAs slammed at meet
The environment impact assessment (EIA) reports submitted by mining companies to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) came under scrutiny of mining-affected persons and others at a meeting with a Western Ghats’ ecology experts panel at Dona Paula recently.
$250-mn ADB loan to Goa, 2 other states
The Asian Development Bank on Wednesday approved a multi-tranche financing facility of $250 million for the Sustainable Coastal Protection and Management Investment Programme which aims to reduce coastal erosion and instability in the western coastal states of Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
India Wary as West Plots New Climate moves ahead of Cancun
With all key countries discounting the possibility of a complete new global deal on climate change at Cancun, Mexico, in November, US and other rich countries have begun closed-door parleys to instead discuss a brief but game-altering ‘Mexico Mandate’.
GoM crunches numbers for Bhopal payout
How much to demand from Union Carbide or its successors for Bhopal gas disaster is the moot question. The Centre was offered to pick from three high amounts for additional compensation — Rs 5,263 crore, Rs 3,298 crore and Rs 2,936 crore. These were way beyond the Supreme Court-mediated Rs 675.96 crore that was settled as liability in […]
Biodiversity as important to India as climate change: Jairam Ramesh
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has underlined that Convention on Biodiversity was equally important to India as combating climate change, which tends to hog the limelight.