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An Evaluation of India’s National Action Plan on Climate ChangeAn Evaluation of India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change

Welcome to www.indiaclimatemissions.org! India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change and eight climate missions ─ a vital part of India’s response to climate change, and the main avenue through which planned activities on adaptation and [...]

Author(s): Sujatha Byravan, Sudhir C Rajan
Date: July, 2012

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Best Practices: Environmental Sustainability Index 2011

Each state’s environmental resources, capabilities and hence challenges differ from others. ESI compares the states across six peer groups; created on the basis of GDP per capita and contribution to India s GDP. Sub index [...]

Author(s): Manasi Pathak, Kadambari Anantram, Vivek Venkataramani
Date: June, 2012

USI: Urban Sustainability Index

Cities will be central to India’s economic future. The country’s urban population grew from 290 million in 2001 to 340 million in 2008, an increase of 17.24% over an eight year period, with this number [...]

Author(s): Sivapradha CR, Kadambari Anantram, Vivek Venkataramani
Date: April, 2012

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Environmental Literacy in Sikkim

IFMR-CDF in collaboration with Department of Forest Environment and Wildlife Management (DFEWM) Sikkim is working on a state-wide study for establishing baseline information on environmental awareness of the citizens in Sikkim. One of the goals [...]

Author(s): Manasi Pathak, Shweta Bhagwat
Date: March, 2012

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Atlas of Household Energy Consumption and Expenditure in India

We at the Centre for Development Finance-IFMR are proud to introduce the Energy Atlas – the first interactive online resource, complete with explanatory report, which allows investors, entrepreneurs and policy makers to quickly access and [...]

Author(s): Mohit Sharma, David Fuente, Rich Woodbridge
Date: February, 2012

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Urban Testing Project

The Rural Market Insight group conducted a study of rapid prototyping and user testing on the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) households located in urban areas in Chennai. The study served to explore whether the [...]

Author(s): Selvan Thandapani, Rich Woodbridge
Date: April, 2011

Demand for Green Buildings in Indian Cities
Demand for Green Buildings in Indian Cities

A burgeoning population, escalating economic development and internal migration to urban centres from rural areas has resulted in India’s cities bursting at the seams and plagued with numerous environmental problems, which, negatively impact the health [...]

Author(s): Kadambari Anantram
Date: February, 2011

Impact of World Bank funded irrigation projects in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Orissa

The cooperative programme between the FAO and the World Bank seeks to take stock of the impacts of nine World Bank funded irrigation projects across the states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and [...]

Author(s): David Fuente, Kadambari Anantram
Date: December, 2010

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Ecological and socio-economic assessment of the grazing ban in Sikkim

The Environmentally Sustainable Finance team in collaboration with the Forest Environment and Wildlife Management Department, Sikkim is conducting a study to examine the effects of the ban laid on grazing in forest areas in Sikkim. [...]

Author(s): Manasi Pathak, Shweta Bhagwat, Vivek Venkataramani
Date: December, 2010

Coping with Change and Insecurity

This project attempts to make clearer the relationships between large scale economic and demographic changes, government policies and individual lives through a series of shorter written outputs. It is particularly interested in the increase in [...]

Author(s): Nithya V. Raman
Date: November, 2010

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