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NORTHEAST India is endowed with a bounty of water resources, accounting for about 40% of the total water resources in the country, i.e. about 60 million hectaremetre. The region is in the highest rainfall zone of the country and enjoys typica...
ACCESS to safe drinking water remains an urgent necessity, as 30% of urban and 90% of rural households still depend completely on untreated surface or groundwater.While access to drinking water in India has increased over the past decade, the...
The Indian stand at Copenhagen: a sellout? India played a visibly leading role in Copenhagen and it did not change its previous stand of not accepting a legally binding emissions reduction commitment. India went to Copenhagen arm...
Carbon Credits in India Our earth is undoubtedly warming. This warming is largely the result of emissions of carbon dioxide and other Greenhouse Gases (GHG’s) from...
THE resilience and adaptation in mountain regions have acquired important priorities in the present times, especially when climate change has become an overriding issue and its impacts are recognized to be felt globally. The present study des...
The Earth has an atmosphere of the proper depth and chemical composition. About 30% of incoming energy from the sun is reflected back to space while the rest reaches the earth, resulting in warming the air, oceans, and land, and maintai...
Abstract Carbon Credits are a tradable permit scheme under UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change) which give the owner the right to emit one metric tonne of carbon-dioxide equivalent. They ...
Environmental Challenges According to the State of Environment Report India 2009, made public by the Minister of Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, India faces many important environmental challenges which currently threaten both ...
1. A ‘waste’ is ‘a resource remaining unutilized’ or ‘a resource out of place’. For example, out of the food that we consume, only a part is ‘utilized’ by the body system and the balance is thro...
Cogeneration in India, being a tropical country with power shortfall, means often something else than in Germany. Here cogeneration in particular in the context of sugar mills means the generation of excess power to be sold to an external cus...