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| Towards a cleaner and greener India |
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| Live Mint , Friday, March 06, 2015 |
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Green concerns seem to be getting more importance in economic policy now. Consider two recent developments. First, the 14th Finance Commission has given a 7.5% weight to forest cover in the formula ...More
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| Towards a cleaner and greener India |
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| Live Mint , Friday, March 06, 2015 |
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Green concerns seem to be getting more importance in economic policy now. Consider two recent developments. First, the 14th Finance Commission has given a 7.5% weight to forest cover in the formula ...More
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| Decision taken to extend green clearance from 5 to 7 years: |
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| Business Standard , Wednesday, March 04, 2015 |
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A decision has been taken to extend the validity of environmental clearance from five to seven years, government told the Lok Sabha today.
In his reply, Minister of State for Environment, Forests ...More
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| Bengaluru NGO's call to protest reforms of Green Act |
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| Business Standard , Wednesday, March 04, 2015 |
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The Bengaluru-headquartered NGO Environment Support Group (ESG) that deals with issues concerning the environment, has called on the general public to petition the Centre to not go ahead with reformin ...More
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| Climate change triggered Syrian conflict: Study |
| Henry Fountain |
| The Economic Times , Wednesday, March 04, 2015 |
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Drawing one of the strongest links yet between global warming and human conflict, researchers said on Monday that a recent extreme drought in Syria between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due to climate ...More
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| Sun has maximum impact on climate when Earth is cooler |
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| The Times of India , Monday, March 02, 2015 |
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LONDON: The impact of the Sun on Earth's climate has greater significance when our planet is cooler, a new study has found.
An international team of researchers shows that, during the last 4,000 ye ...More
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| Visionary move for green energy |
| PASHUPATHY GOPALAN |
| The Hindu , Sunday, March 01, 2015 |
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The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday was a momentous occasion for renewable energy with the announcement of a visionary goal of 175-gigawatt capacity by 2022. This m ...More
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| Global meet on climate change from today |
| Climate Change |
| The Hindu , Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
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More than 200 scientists and policymakers participating in an international conference beginning here on Thursday will seek to come up with a mechanism for data sharing among countries on climate mode ...More
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| Media, Environment, and Sustainability |
| KALPITA DAS |
| Greater Kashmir , Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
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The book titled “Media Construction of Environment and Sustainability in India” comes at an important juncture in the history of Indian media, one because the UN Decade of Education on Sustainable Dev ...More
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| UK experts to offer green tips to small-scale units |
| Prithvijit Mitra, |
| The Times of India , Tuesday, February 24, 2015 |
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KOLKATA: Experts from Jadavpur University and Aston Business School, UK, will be helping a dozen small-scale units in the state turn green. They will be hand-holding these units as they go about reduc ...More
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| Nagaland ICAR organizes training on climate change |
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| The Shillong Times , Monday, February 23, 2015 |
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Kohima: The Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) Research Complex for North East Hill (NEH) Region, Nagaland Centre organized a three-days training programme on ‘Resource conservation techn ...More
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| At Geneva, India opposes dilution of tasks |
| MEENA MENON |
| The Hindu , Monday, February 23, 2015 |
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Developing countries have been demanding finance to deal with climate change from industrialised countries.
India’s position underscoring the historical responsibilities of developing countries in th ...More
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