List of Environmental Acts, Protocols and Implementing Bodies in India

The nodal agency is the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC). The ministry acts as nodal agency for the following

1. United Nations Environment Program
2. South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP)
3. International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
4. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
5. Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)
6. Global Environment Facility (GEF)
7. Economic and Social Council for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP)

Below is ready reference reckoner of all the bodies working in different field of environment protection in India. UPSC aspirants should make separate notes on each one of them.

Different bodies associated with MoEFCC and associated protocols if any are:

1. Botanical Survey of India
2. Zoological Survey of India
3. Forest Survey of India
4. Environment Conservation
a. Biodiversity Conservation
i. National Biodiversity Authority (established under Biodiversity Act, 2002)
ii. Genetic Engineering Appraisal Community
iii. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
1. Cartagena Protocol for Biosafety
2. Nagoya Supplementary Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS)
3. Aichi Biodiversity Targets
b. Forest Protection
i. Intensification of Forest Management Scheme (IFMS)
1. Latest fire protection methods
ii. National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board
iii. National Afforestation Programme
iv. National Mission for Green India under National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)
c. Wildlife Protection
i. Wildlife Wing of the Ministry
ii. Central Zoo Authority
iii. Project Elephant
iv. National Tiger Conservation Authority
v. Animal Welfare Board of India
5. Pollution Management
a. Central Pollution Control Board / State Pollution Control Boards (empowered via Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981)
b. Coastal Zone Regulation (Under Environmental Protection Act, 1986)
c. Hazardous Substance Management
i. Basel Convention on Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste and Disposal
ii. Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed consent for certain chemicals and pesticides in international trade
iii. Stockholm convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
iv. Minamata Convention on Mercury
d. Chemical Safety
i. Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989
ii. Chemical Accidents (Emergency Planning, Preparedness and Response) Rules, 1996
e. Hazardous Waste Management
i. New Hazardous Waste Rules, 2016*
f. E Waste Management
i. E Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011
g. Solid Waste Management
i. New Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016*
h. Bio-Medical Waste Management
i. New Biomedical Waste Management Rules, 2016*
i. Fly Ash Utilisation
6. River/Wetlands Conservation
a. National River Conservation Plan
b. Conservation of Wetlands
7. National Green Corps
8. National Museum of Natural History

*The new rules deserves attention. Few of them have been discussed on webmaggu itself.