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The author is correspondent at BW Businessworld, he has a keen interest in sustainability and environmental economics
There is a date every year when the world's resource bank goes into overdraft
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Growth seemed to be the end goal, the end which justified the means, and rapid economic 'growth' seemed to be an ideal priority for any policy-maker
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Green Credits is one such idea, which is a reward-scheme for environmentally friendly behaviour, which aims to involve people in every strata of society to become participants in creating a green economy
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A total of 741 proposals are awaiting environmental clearance, with 194 from Maharashtra said Dr Harsh Vardhan in a written reply to Rajya Sabha
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With an increase of 1C on an average day during the growing season, there are 67 more suicides, illustrates the study, showing the extreme sensitivity of the Indian agricultural ecosystem to temperature spikes
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Even though civic authorities can save cows from plastic, the challenge the earth faces from the overproduction and consumption of plastic is tremendous
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Requiring sophisticated equipment and infrastructure, care for heart disease among children is exorbitant and challenging, and to facilitate care for these children, there is external support required
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By 2050, we will lose 40 per cent of all jobs at the planet level. We need to re-think our society. If we continue to work for 8 hours a day, we are going to self-destroy ourselves
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As per data collected from the finance ministry under the Right to Information Act, 2005, even the unused and unspent amount in the National Clean Energy and Environment Fund has been diverted
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For such a scheme to be implemented effectively, there is a need for the Central Pollution Control Board to implement a Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS), to continuously keep a tab on polluting industries and see their level of emissions with respect to the “cap” and how many permits they are allocated
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