Ministry of Environment & Forests has upheld its show cause notice on Lavasa Corporation and asked that there be no construction at the Pune site till end of December.The Ministry of Environment & Forests will give a final view on the controversial hill town project, which has been accused of violating green rules, by then.The interim order says no work on site can continue. The Ministry order has listed at...
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Temperate accord on climate change
It would have been dismal if the low expectations for the United Nations climate change conference at Cancún had not been exceeded. This weekend’s unexpected, last-minute accord from nearly 200 countries will not save the planet. Huge obstacles remain. Nonetheless, the meeting produced the first UN-adopted pact to cut carbon emissions since Kyoto in 1997. Cancún was a success, albeit a modest one.It is not surprising that there is no...
More »Is bamboo a tree or a grass? by Sunita Narain
The definition is contested as the answer has immense economic implications. If bamboo is a tree or timber, it belongs to the forest department and can be auctioned to the paper and pulp industry, often at throwaway rates. If it is a grass, then it would be classified as a minor forest produce and people would have the right to cut bamboo for sale or for value addition by making...
More »Tribal activists see REDD in Cancun
India has agreed to allow a market mechanism in a forestry scheme, Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), though critics claim this may weaken the traditional forest rights of tribals.However, environment minister Jairam Ramesh insisted REDD schemes would have no impact on India as most of the money will go to Brazil and Indonesia. “We will receive a negligible amount,” he said, while noting India didnot oppose the market...
More »As climate-change talks continue, lack of consensus spurs smaller-scale actions by Juliet Eilperin and William Booth
In response to growing frustration that the U.N. climate negotiations are not producing real-world results, individual nations, states and business are cobbling together patchwork solutions to preserve Forests, produce clean energy and scrub pollution from the air.Under this new approach, businesses in California will offset their greenhouse gas emissions by funding tropical forest preservation in Mexico and Brazil; Japan will help pay for nuclear power plants in developing nations; and...
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