This paper evaluates how well the annual United Nations Human Development Reports (HDRs) have lived up to their own conceptual mandate and assesses the ability of the HDI to further the development debate.

The third meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP-3) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded in December 1997 with the signing of the Kyoto Protocol (UNFCCC, 1997). After much deliberation and negotiation, the Parties agreed to the establishment of a set of binding emission targets for developed countries and economies in transition (Annex-I countries)

This paper analyzes how climate change research and analysis is performed in India, a major lesser-industrialized country.

Automobiles are a source of considerable pollution at the global level, including a significant fraction of the total greenhouse gas emissions. 

The main challenge facing India''s energy sector is to increase and improve the delivery of energy services to various sections of the citizenry and the economy in an environmentally and socially acceptable manner. New and improved technologies will play a central role in meeting this challenge and from a long-term perspective, it will be in India''s benefit to strengthen the technological capabilities that can help it meet its energy and environmental goals.