Post Tagged with: "EIA 2020"
EIA 2020: Undermining India’s biodiversity and climate goals
Anurag Mishra, Neha Mohanbabu, Krishna Anujan | Down to Earth
The proposal to weaken policies for environmental protection with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) draft, 2020, has resulted in widespread public concern
How EIA 2020 watered down EIA 2006
Courtesy: The Week Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statements on Sunday have raked up many concerns surrounding the draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 notification. “The EIA 2020 draft is a disaster. It seeks to silence the voice of communities who will be directly impacted by the environmental degradation it unleashes.Read More
Why India’s new EIA 2020 draft is deeply problematic
Why India’s new EIA 2020 draft is deeply problematic
Centre’s amnesty for green violators
Jayashree Nandi | Hindustan Times The union environment ministry has put together an amnesty scheme for infrastructure and industrial projects that have violated environmental clearance norms. The standard operating procedure (SOP) laid out by the ministry in an office memorandum dated July 7 states that projects that don’t have priorRead More
Regularising Green Violators Legally Untenable
Nikhil Ghanekar | IndiaSpend New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) on July 7, 2021 issued new standard operating procedures (SOPs) for dealing with cases of industrial projects that are operating without prior environmental clearance under the Environment Impact Notification (EIA), 2006. Action will be taken against projects that doRead More
How the Centre has undermined democratic norms including on green clearance
Arsh Rampal | The Leaflet
The Constitution establishes representative government in India. The scope of public participation has accordingly gradually increased. In a participative democracy, the public is involved in government decision-making. Information disclosure is another norm of such a system. However, recent trends highlight attempts to inhibit the participatory element of governance.
Aiding Industries Bypass Environmental Safeguards
Ayaskant Das | The Wire Science
The Government Is Effectively Helping Industries Bypass Environmental Safeguards
Integrating ‘climate change’ concerns into EIAs
Courtesy: IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Civil society groups urge Centre to cease ‘backdoor’ implementation of draft EIA 2020
Gaurav Sarkar | Mid-Day
Civil society organisations, individuals write to union environment minister, seek transparency in the finalisation of draft EIA notification 2020
Endangered Landscapes