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New Environmental Body
(February 06, 2007)
France has proposed a
new environmental body
that could police,
monitor, and hold
responsible nations that
over-use resources in
the name of development
and received support of
several nations but not
the US, China, India,
and Russia.<More>
EU Help to Clean Ganga
(January 29, 2007)
To provide safe drinking
water, the European Union is
collaborating with many
renowned Indian institutes to
introduce natural and proven
techniques of water filtration
techniques and begun a
EU-India River Bank Filtration
Network.<More>
Tax Breaks for Bio-Diesel
(November 24, 2006)
The Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy has floated a
draft National Policy on
Biofuels suggesting that India
offer several fiscal
incentives and a National
Biofuel Development Board to
promote adoption of blended
petrol and diesel. <More>
GHG Consequences Dangerous
(November 16, 2006)
UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan told a conference on
climate control in Nairobi
that it is far less expensive
to cut greenhouse gasses (GHG)
than “deal with the
consequences later” and
implored nations “Let no one
say we cannot afford to act.”<More>
Clean Projects Disagreement
(November 14, 2006)
Nations attending the 12th
Conference of Parties on
Climate Change (COP12) seemed
to be angry at the lop-sided
award of Clean Development
Projects (CDP) part of the
Kyoto Protocol to India,
China, and Brazil.<More>
Pollution, Poaching Affecting
Conservation
(October 12, 2006)
Two different and unrelated
reports show that there
increasing pollution and
poaching are affecting quality
of rivers and wildlife
depending on these rivers
despite large spends to clean
rivers.<More>
US Seeks Tariff cut on
Environment Products
(August 29, 2006)
As a co-member of the
Asia-Pacific Partnership
(APP), the US wants India to
reduce its tariffs on imported
environmental goods and
services from the current 15%
to allow free flow of
technology to reduce green
house gases (GHG) emission.<More>
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