Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is an ambitious social welfare scheme of Narendra Modi Government launched on 1st May 2016 from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh. Under the PM Ujjwala Yojana, the government aims to provide LPG connections to BPL households in the country. The scheme is aimed at replacing the unclean cooking fuels mostly used in the rural India with the clean and more efficient LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas). The scheme will be implemented by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. This is first time in the history that Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas is implementing such an enormous welfare scheme which will benefit Crores of women belonging to the poorest households.

The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Programme (REEEP) (Former Sustainable Energy for Development (SED) Programme), supported by the Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, is working to address the energy needs of Bangladesh. Towards this aim it promotes the use of renewable energy, as well as efficient use of energy. This is done by improving the framework conditions towards building markets for sustainable energy solutions through building capacities of relevant stakeholders, promoting the appli cation of energy efficient (EE) technologies and technologies for the generation of renewable energy (RE).

Under the Market Development Initiative for Bondhu Chula Project improved cook-stoves will be distributed and after sales service will be provided to keep the Bondhu Chula (clean cook stoves) in good operating conditions. The objectives of the project are: reduce pressure on forest-resources, reduce indoor air pollution, minimize health risk and reduce emission of green house gases.

This document is the Ethanol Production Grants programme administrative guidelines (guidelines). The objective of these guidelines is to provide a framework for the operation of the programme. The goal of the programme is to support production and deployment of ethanol as a sustainable alternative transport fuel in Australia. The programme will provide fuel excise reimbursement at legislated rate until 30 June 2015, for ethanol produced and supplied for transport use in Australia from locally derived feedstock. No reimbursements will be provided after this date .

The Ethanol Production Grants (EPG) Program was designed to support production and deployment of ethanol as a sustainable alternative transport fuel in Australia. The EPG Program provided full excise reimbursement, at the excise rate, to ethanol producers for ethanol produced and supplied for transport use in Australia from locally derived feedstock. The Program provided $839 million in funding. The Program closed on 30 June 2015.

This Initiative is part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) efforts towards the promotion of energy saving and the expansion of the use of renewable energy. TMG has implemented different power saving measures to compensate energy shortage following the Great East Japan Earthquake. Since then, the effort towards power saving has continued and responds to climate change and disaster risk challenges. “The Tokyo Initiative on Smart Energy Saving,” setsf forth the following: ■ Policy for the “smart energy saving” initiative that should be pursued in summer 2012 and beyond ■ Measures that the TMG should take in order to transform itself into a “smart energy city” in the future.

The purpose of this law is to clarify the responsibilities of the national government, local government, enterprises, and citizens towards preventing air pollution brought about by nitrogen oxides emitted from automobiles. With regard to specific areas in which such pollution is most severe, the law also sets forth the fundamental policies and plans for reducing the total volume of automobile emitted nitrogen oxide, establishes nitrogen oxides emission standards for specific automobiles which are registered in those areas, and employs necessary measures for restricting the amount of nitrogen oxides emissions resulting from use of automobiles for business activities.

Purposes of this Act are to protect the health of citizens and to protect the living environment from air pollution by, among other things, controlling emissions of Soot and Smoke, Volatile Organic Compounds, and Particulates associated with the business activities of factories and workplaces and with the demolition, etc. of buildings, etc.. It promotes the implementation of measures against hazardous air pollutants and and sets maximum permissible limits for automobile exhaust; it also aims to protect victims where air pollution has caused harm to human health by providing for the liability of business operators for damages.

The Basic Environment Plan was established by the Cabinet decision on December 16, 1994, as a long-term comprehensive national plan for environmental conservation, in accordance with the Article 15 of the Basic Environment Law (Law No. 91, 1993).

The Basic Environment Law aims to comprehensively and systematically promote policies for environmental conservation to ensure healthy and cultured living for both the present and future generations of the nation. It articulates basic principles, clarifying the responsibilities of the State, local governments, corporations and citizens, and prescribing the basic policy considerations for environmental conservation.