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    Sustainable development: The way for future, where are we?

    Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2011
    In India around 700 million people in the rural area are directly dependent on climate-sensitive sectors (agriculture, forests, and fisheries) and natural resources (such as water, biodiversity, mangroves, coastal zones, grasslands) for their subsistence and livelihoods.
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    India’s national action plan on climate change — Climate leaders

    Leadership for Environment and Development- Decentralised Resource Centre, India, 2009
    On 30 June 2008, the Prime Minister released India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). Prepared by the specially constituted Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, the document was intended to provide a concrete road map detailing how India plans to move forward in combating climate change.
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    Disaster management and climate change: India policy frameworks and responses

    Centre for Social Markets, India, 2011
    For decades disaster management in India remained an issue of providing relief and rehabilitation assistance to people affected by natural disasters. Successive disasters and global movements for disaster reduction since the nineties have triggered a paradigm shift in disaster management leading to the creation of new legal and institutional frameworks for disaster management in India.
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    India: Renewable energy trends

    Centre for Social Markets, India, 2008
    This paper provides an objective analysis of present day trends in renewable energy in India. Without going unnecessarily into the history and evolution of this sector in the Indian context, the paper seeks to take stock of the current focus and initiatives. The author has avoided the temptation of giving policy prescriptions for the growth of the sector.
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    Climate change: Why India needs to take leadership?

    Centre for Social Markets, India, 2007
    This paper argues that prioritising low-carbon technologies today will yield benefits tomorrow in the form of an industrial economy much more ready to compete in a carbon-constrained future. It will add rather than depreciate value for the country.
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    Sustainable development in India: Stocktaking in the run up to Rio+20

    Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, 2011
    Government of India's stocktaking report on the status of and frameworks for sustainable development in India in the run-up to Rio+20.
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    India's forests and REDD+

    Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, 2010
    Government of India's document on the state of forests, forest governance and their interaction with REDD in India. It argues that while most developing countries lost forest cover, India added around 3mn hectares of forest and tree cover over the last decade and that forests neutralize ~11% of India’s GHG emissions.
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    Joint statement issued at the conclusion of the fifth BASIC ministerial meeting on climate change

    Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, 2010
    The Fifth BASIC Ministerial meeting on climate change was held in Tianjin, China, on the 10th and 11th of October 2010. This joint statement was issued at its conclusion. It reemphasizes the primacy of equity in international climate negotiations.
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    Joint statement issued at the conclusion of the fourth meeting of ministers of the BASIC group

    Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, 2010
    This joint statement was issued by BASIC countries at the fourth meeting of BASIC country Ministers on climate change that took place in Rio de Janeiro on the 25th and 26th of July 2010.
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    India: Taking on climate change post-Copenhagen domestic actions

    Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, 2010
    A Ministry of Environment and Forests note summarising India's domestic actions on climate change in the aftermath of Copenhagen. It tables actions on sub-national climate plans, energy efficiency, renewable energy and capacity building on climate change through R&D.; The Government of India has set up an Expert Group on Low Carbon Strategy for Inclusive Growth.

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