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Oct 1-15, 2004
Cover Story
The Green Rating Project (GRP) of the Centre for Science and Environment was conceived as a means to track the environmental performance of India's key industrial sectors. Its essence? There had to be a way civil society could provide -- and make public -- a scientific knowledge of, and a positive check on, the effects of industrialisation on the country's natural resource base, and its people.
GRP has done exactly this, since its inception. In 1999, it rated the pulp and paper sector. In 2001 came the rating of the powerful automobile sector. In 2002 it grappled with the performance of the chlor-alkali sector.
And now, GRP rates the pulp and paper sector for the second time.
What follows is not a snap-shot. It is definitely not as short-term, or sensational, as an opinion poll. This rating benchmarks the present. Even as companies compete for leadership, and the top spot, it provides an empirical, verifiable measure of change.
And GRP-driven change has occurred. Cynics, prepare to be surprised...
Click to see the report card - How India's pulp and paper sector fared>>>
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A novel method to tackle sewage, and so, pollution
Companies can't wait to mine Orissa's rich deposits; government goes with the flow
Pollution from Africa and Indonesia reaches Indian Ocean region in monsoon transition periods
India might have a bad monsoon next year
Collecting medicinal plants in Jammu and Kashmir's forests
Apex court committee penalises chemical plant
Polluters assigned the task of disaster management in Gujarat
Ignores decommissioning, radioactive waste disposal
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
The US takes to hybrid vehicles in a big way
Typhoid bacterium resilient to antibiotics
Knowing its genetic structure will help cure diseases
Interview
CLIVE JAMES, chairperson, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications gives T V JAYAN and CLIFFORD POLYCARP his prescription for feeding the hungry w...
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