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Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a Notification to put in place a framework for acceptance of Green Deposits (Framework) with effect from 1 June 2023...

In a bold bid to dismantle the regulatory roadblocks that has long impeded small and medium enterprises in Goa, the Goa State Pollution Control Board...

The Supreme Court of India has delivered a critical environmental judgment in the case of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir & Ors. v. Raja Muzaffar Bhat & Ors., fundamentally...

Environment protection has become one of the major concerns in today’s world of fast technological and economic development. Technology is applied to living species by the inventor to create a commodity out of it for commercial use and to safeguard the inventors’ innovation from unfair commercial use and also to further boost research and development, certain specific rights in the form of intellectual property rights are given as an incentive.

The government of Maharashtra, through its Revenue and Forests Department, has issued an order dated 17th October 2025 under the Maharashtra Stamp Act, 1958, granting 100% remission of stamp duty to 11 specified mega and ultra mega logistics parks as classified under the Maharashtra State Logistics Policy-2024.

The demand for ESG investing has been on the rise across the world in the last five years primarily since investors are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that ESG issues, such as climate change, have a real impact on ...

On 22 January 2019, the National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi in the case of Saloni Singh & Anr v Union of India & Ors inter alia, directed the Railway Administration, Ministry of Railways, Government of India ...

The NGT has been mandated to deal with cases relating to environment which, broadly, involve direct violation of specific statutory environmental obligation...

G20 leaders met in New Delhi, India, on 9-10 September, 2023. This summit presented an opportunity to set an ambitious tone ahead of COP28 (which we have discussed previously...

Boards, analysts, shareholders, civil society, regulators, and PR agencies are in a tizzy. ESG is the new buzz word, and the in-thing to do is to splash it around in annual reports.

Businesses have come a long way since noted economist, Milton Friedman, advanced his doctrine that the social responsibility of a business is to generate profit for its shareholders.

On 22 January 2025, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) published a report titled ‘Classification of Sectors into Red, Orange, Green, White and Blue Categories...

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy ("MNRE"), vide letter dated March 15, 2024, has issued the ‘Scheme Guidelines for Setting Up Hydrogen Hubs in India...

In the year 1952 a high-pressure weather system trapped cold air below and warm air higher up over the city of London

The Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying issued the 'Guidelines for solid waste management in coastal aquaculture units or activities' ("Guidelines") on March 15, 2024.

The Supreme Court in Vanashakti v Union of India, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 1703 held that Environmental Clearance (EC) is necessary for all large scale building and construction projects including educational institutions under the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 (EIA Notification).

In a major move to modernize and improve industrial safety, the Government of India has introduced the Boilers Act, 2025, replacing the outdated Boilers Act, 1923.