The Global Change Programme, a special programme of Jadavpur University, got down to serious academics on Thursday, explaining to bureaucrats the benefits of market-based fiscal instruments such as taxes, subsidies and trading instruments to control pollution
instead of the command and control mode of environment regulation that has been the policy focus. The initiative is directed at sensitizing policy makers on the need to push for a green economic growth by strengthening science policy interface .

 The three-day workshop is funded by the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF).

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PUNE: The government has launched an I ntegrated Pest Management (IPM) - an eco-friendly approach which aims at keeping pest population at below economic threshold levels by employing all available alternate pest control methods and techniques such as
cultural, mechanical and biological with emphasis on use of bio-pesticides and pesticides of plant-origin like Neem formulations. The use of chemical pesticides is advised as a measure of last resort when pest population in the crop crosses economic threshold
levels (ETL).

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BENGALURU: The BBMP could face more trouble in its efforts to get rid of waste from the city. People affected by waste dumping, as in Mandur, are backing other villagers fighting the civic body’s proposal to open waste processing units in their areas. 

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