In 2022-23, India’s LPG consumption was 28.5 million tons (MT) and production was 12.8 MT. At over 41.1 percent, LPG imports accounted for the largest share of petroleum product imports in 2022-23. Domestic
Several countries have used fi nancial incentives to encourage people to adopt healthier lifestyles with encouraging results. Now this approach has been suggested in a number of UK policy documents. But what is the evidence that it works? : a report.
Climate exchange Unfair share of cause and effect Ecological damages are distributed more towards poor nations Human activities are changing
Is there a global crisis unravelling? World food reserves are at their lowest in 25 years and the prices of most food crops are at a record high. This is causing inflation in several countries from Egypt to China even riots in Mexico and western Africa. G
Britain's efforts to become more environmentally friendly are being thwarted by social forces that are causing more people to live alone, the Office for National Statistics warned yesterday.
For the first time in North America, the Canadian province of British Columbia has introduced a consumer-based tax on carbon emissions. Announcing a budget plan for the year, finance minister
Energy security has to go hand in hand with economic development and environmental protection.
The recent rapid increases in the international prices of many basic food commodities have raised many questions from policy-makers, the media, the public, and the farmers who have the opportunity to benefit from the situation.
In the News Focus Story, "Greening the Meeting" (5 October 2007, P. 36), B. Lester compares the fossil fuel energy required to transport scientists to and from a conference by airplane to the energy used by "2250 Honda Civics during a year's worth of normal driving." Another way to put a human face on fossil energy usage is to think in terms of "Virtual Persons" (VPs). (Letters)
National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) conducted an integrated survey of households and unorganised manufacturing enterprises in the 62nd round of NSS during July 2005 - June 2006. The subjects covered were household consumer expenditure, employment and unemployment and certain characteristics of unorganised manufacturing enterprises. The present report is the second one in a series of three reports being brought out based on the survey on unorganised manufacturing enterprises. The first report contained information on various operational characteristics of enterprises like location of
