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Ecomark or Eco-labelling

The issue of environmental protection has brought the consumers, the industry, and the government to a common platform where each has to play its own role. The government and legislatures are using their influence to reduce environmental and health hazards due to industrialization and to stimulate the development of cleaner technologies. However, the environment is […]

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Environmental Audit

Project impacting environment require an environmental assessment and audit when. The assessment provides the scientific data and approach for understanding whether there are any risks and how they might be mitigated. Assessments are undertaken by professionals. The audit provides an independent, robust and defensible process to assess the extent of the contamination and the risk posed to […]

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process of evaluating the likely environmental impacts (positive or negative) of a proposed project or development, taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human-health impacts, both beneficial and adverse. Environment assessment involves a study to determine any unique environmental attributes from endangered species to existing hazardous waste to historical […]

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Rio Declaration

Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > Sustainable Development > Rio Declaration Twenty years after Stockholm, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de Janeiro from 3rd to 14th June 1992 with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new […]

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Stockholm Declaration

Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > Sustainable Development > Stockholm Declaration The term ‘sustainable development’ was first used in the Cocoyoc Declaration on Environment and Development held at Cocoyoc in Mexico between 8-12 October 1974. The symposium, chaired by Barbara Ward, president of the International Institute for Environment and Development, was […]

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Meaning of Sustainable Development

Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > Sustainable Development > Meaning of Sustainable Development Man is both creature and moulder of his environment, which gives him physical sustenance and affords him the opportunity for intellectual, moral, social and spiritual growth. In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this […]

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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974

Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 > Introduction Introduction to Water Act: It is an Act to provide for the prevention and control of water pollution and the maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of water for the establishment, with a view to […]