Cairn Vedanta Deal and Navi Mumbai International Airport 11/3/2011 Roll Nos: 82- Siddharth Malhotra 84- Ashish Masurkar 86- Dhwanil Meghani 88- Nishant Meshram 90- Varsha Mewada 92- Vibhav Mishra 94- Nilesh Motwani 96- Arpita Nair 98- Ujwal Netam 100- Rahul Noronha Index | Topic | Page No. | I. | Cairn-Vedanta Deal | | 1 | Introduction | | 2 | Chronological Events in the Cairn Vedanta Deal | | 3 | The put-option‚ call-option and right of first refusal (RoFR)
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Definition of environmental degradation Environmental degradation describes the erosion of the natural environment through the depletion of resources‚ the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of plant and animal species. It is caused by direct or indirect human activity‚ and has increased significantly since the Industrial Revolution. The United Nations has listed environmental degradation in its top ten list of high level threats faced by the planet to date. Environmental degradation is caused
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Nikhil1‚ Verma Deepa2‚ Gavankar Rohan1 and Bhalerao Satish3 1 Department of Biotechnology‚ Viva College‚ Virar (W)‚ Maharashtra‚ INDIA 2 Department of Botany‚ Viva College‚ Virar (w)‚ Maharashtra‚ INDIA 3 Department of Botany‚ Wilson College‚ Mumbai‚ Maharashtra‚ INDIA Available online at: www.isca.in Received 30th November 2012‚ revised 12th January 2013‚ accepted 25th January 2013 Abstract The rate of biodegradation of diesel engine oil by microorganisms isolated from garage soil (petroleum
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Environmental Accounting Where We Are Now‚ Where We Are Heading by Joy E. Hecht Interest is growing in modifying national income accounting systems to promote understanding of the links between economy and environment. T he field of environmental accounting has made great strides in the past two decades‚ moving from a rather arcane endeavor to one tested in dozens of countries and well established in a few. But the idea that nations might integrate the economic role of the environment into
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The environmental challenges facing industrial companies and governments throughout the world are numerous and complex. Most governments and industrial companies now clearly realize and embrace the paradigm that environmental issues are intertwined with social/ cultural and socioeconomic issues.whereas Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of growth in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present‚ but also
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Environmental issues are harmful effects of human activitity on the biophysical environment. Environmentalism‚ a socialand environmental movement that started in the 1960s‚ addresses environmental issues through advocacy‚ education and activism. The carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere has already exceeded 400 parts per million (NOAA) (with total "long-term" GHG exceeding 455 parts per million). (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report) This level is considered
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Environmental ethics concerns human beings’ moral relationship with the natural environment. It seeks to help people and their leaders to act responsibly when they do things that impact the natural world. Need for Ethics: The emergence of the field of environmental ethics was due to the increasing awareness in the 1960s of the effects that technology‚ industry‚ economic expansion and population growth were having on the environment. It is all the more relevant today as most environmental problems
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Need For Environmental Science As defined by Wikipedia‚ “Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences‚ which includes but is not limited to Ecology‚ Physics‚ Chemistry‚ Biology‚ Soil Science‚ Geology‚ Atmospheric Science and Geography.” Environmental science provides an integrated approach to the study of environmental science‚ ecosystems‚ and the changes in them‚ their depletion and corrective measures. Environmental science is
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Academic Council 25/05/2011 Item No. 4.59 UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI Syllabus for the F.Y.B.Sc. Program: B.Sc. Course : Zoology (Credit Based Semester and Grading System with effect from the academic year 2011–2012) 1 F.Y.B.Sc. Zoology Syllabus Restructured for Credit Based and Grading System To be implemented from the Academic year 2010-2011 SEMESTER I Course Code UNIT I USZO101 II III I USZO102 II III USZO P1 TOPICS Diversity of Animal Kingdom I Life processes I Ecology Molecular basis of life
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Air Quality: Air pollution – contamination of the environment by any chemical‚ physical or biological agent Mostly affected by transportation – pollution result from incomplete combustion of fuel How to know how air pollution is affecting people? From hospitals… X% of respiratory diseases affected from air pollution. This percentage is standard given from US research but has correction factors Causes of Air pollution: 1. Natural Sources: a. Forest fires b. Dust storms c. Climate conditions
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