Green Delhi App Due to deterioration of air quality in the National Capital Region with the onset of winter, the government has released a seven-point action plan to fight air pollution. The mobile application is part of the government’s action…
Definition: EIA Environment Impact Assessment or EIA can be defined as the study to predict the effect of a proposed developmental/infrastructure project on the environment. As a decision-making tool, EIA compares various alternatives for a project and seeks to identify…
Reconstitution of central zoo authority (CZA) The Environment Ministry has reconstituted the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) to include an expert from the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, and a molecular biologist. The CZA is a statutory body chaired by the…
Corona virus impact on environment According to WHO, Increasing incidents of virus outbreaks are due to The destruction of wild habitat, forest and their food sources for urbanisation, mining, industry and agriculture expansion means pathogen once confined to wild are…
Landslide in India and NDMA guidelines India has the highest mountain chain on earth, the Himalayas, which are formed due to collision of Indian and Eurasian plate, the northward movement of the Indian plate towards China causes continuous stress on…
Zero Carbon Act or Climate Change Response (Zero-Carbon) Amendment Act New Zealand has passed a law that aims to make the country almost carbon neutral by 2050. According to the New Zealand government, this is the first legislation in the…
Air pollution in India According to WHO, India’s air pollution, ranked among the worst in the world is adversely impacting the lifespan of is citizen, reducing most Indian lives by over 3 years. Over half of India’s population-660 million people-…
Basel Convention Basel Convention is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries (LDCs). It does not address…