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Environmental Performance Index – Indian Perspective

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Environmental Performance Index – Indian Perspective

We all have experienced depleting quality of air, water and other natural resources. With the increasing population and the resulting load on natural resources, we are on the verge of consuming everything that earth has to provide and we may need another planet to survive. ‘Living Planet’-a report by WWF, has already explained in 2012, that the Earth’s 6.8 billion people are already using 1.5 times of our planet’s natural resources. The load on environmental resources increases with the ever [...]

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