Nearly two-thirds of the country's area has recorded either deficient or highly deficient rains The pre-monsoon deficiency has caused stress in rural India and led to water shortages in cities As
Council To Rephrase Document, Finalize It by Month-End The PM's Climate Change Council on Monday averted an embarrassment for India in the global arena by pointing out how the draft domestic climate change action policy could compromise India's international stance that had been defended at the UN conference on climate change in December 2007 at Bali by science and technology minister Kapil Sibal.
While the government talks about saving prime agricultural land from industry, a pitched battle between Alphonso growers and a power project developer is raging in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district. The environment ministry has cleared a 1,200MW thermal power plant by JSW Energy Limited in the heart of the famous mango-exporting belt despite admitting that the studies to understand the impact of pollution from the thermal plant do not exist yet.
Has 73% Market Share Against India's 6%: Report India might have gained a headstart in the carbon market but it has been left behind by the China juggernaut. The latter has become the world leader in the carbon credit business with a market share of 73% in the volume of credits traded in 2007 as compared to India's 6%, a recently released World Bank report has said. But the entire carbon market could be in for a major shake-up depending on how the negotiations on the future of the Kyoto Protocol, which are to be concluded by 2009, shape up.
The government has finally geared up to fill a gaping hole in its forestry statistics
Even as interested parties have approached the Supreme Court for clarification on its orders on shipbreaking safety norms, 88 ships have illegally beached at Alang in Gujarat without prior decontamination or requisite safety certificates. The court, in its order in September 2007, had ordered that all ships being beached in India should compulsorily carry the "Certificates for Gas Free for Hot Work'.
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New Delhi: The controversy over the allegedly contaminated US ship took a new twist on Wednesday with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board giving it a clean chit, but the Union environment ministry rejecting it has decided to send its own team to the state for investigation.
