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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding large scale felling of toddy yielding palm trees in Bihar, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …

Reforming energy subsidies: opportunities to contribute to the climate change agenda

Reforming environmentally harmful energy subsidies will need to play a central role in moving the world onto a more sustainable development path. Consensus on the detrimental impact of rising fossil-energy consumption on climate change now calls for renewed attention and urgency of the reform process. This report summarises the issues …

Indias nuclear energy programme and the 123 agreement with United States

Nuclear energy will enable India to meet the twin challenges of energy security and environmental sustainability. It will also have major spin-offs for the development of the industries, both public and private. The 123 Agreement between India and United States of America would put an end to technology denial regimes …

Asom lagging behind national average

The National Electricity Policy has envisaged a quantum jump in the per capita consumption of electricity for the next five years, but Asom is at the bottom of the list of States. Asom is lagging far behind the national average in so far as the per capita consumption of power …

RIL, ONGC among 48 Indian companies in Forbes list

After billionaire businessmen, it is the turn of companies from India to shine on Forbes radar with as many as 48 firms making it to a list of the world's biggest companies compiled by the US magazine. Led by India's most valued firm Reliance Industries and PSU major ONGC, all …

Wood-energy supply/demand scenarios in the context of poverty mapping

This publication provides policy-makers and project personnel with tools to assess present energy flows and future energy scenarios. It uses a geographic information system to generate and manage data independently of political boundaries, integrating and analysing relationships among socio-economic and environmental variable and facilitates the identification of priority areas and …

Lighter load

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Show and tell

California electricity consumers are in for a shock and a surprise. Two of the state's biggest utility providers plan on spending $2 billion to install millions of meters, which will display real-time information on how much electricity a customer consumes when using different gadgets. The data in turn will be …

It s dark outside the TV grab

In this day of television grabs, policies are about slugfests. The logic of the grab is that any discussion must be heated, with sharply divided positions - clear proponents and opponents. It is a caricature of the world; in it, for instance, if one is an environmentalist then s/he must …

A new deal

We got off the train at Abu Road station in Rajasthan to visit two cement plants located in the nearby district of Sirohi. The drive was predictable - dry stretches interspersed with marginal agriculture and signs of livestock grazing. But I was keenly waiting for signs of the trees covered …

Tricky obligations

• A fire wall between military and civilian nuclear facilities: Can limit scope of facilities and end India's nuclear weapons programme. • IAEA safeguards for civilian fast breeders: Intrusive inspection • Sign IAEA's additional protocol. Inspection of any facility anytime • Go with Fissile Missile Cut off Treaty: Can cap …

Forget oil

India's total energy requirement has doubled over the last three decades: from 147.05 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe) to 437.69 mtoe. I t's of course well known that indiscriminate burning of hydrocarbon fuels causes much global warming. According to several press reports, several Europeans died of oppressive heat last …

Renewing energy practices

Ontario, Canada's most populous province and home to one third of its population, is poised to take a lead in renewable energy utilisation in North America. Though several American states have set renewable energy targets, they haven't introduced effective mechanisms for the growth of renewables. But Ontario's ruling Liberal Party …

Time to plug in

There is a prominently held view that dissemination of renewable energy technology is marred by high costs. It's true that a few technologies like wind power have become cheaper, but others are still expensive. Solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind energy now cost one tenth of what they did in early …

India: Aim, Hope High

Starting before industrialised Germany and the UK, India has perhaps promoted renewables the longest though a dedicated establishment. The country's Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES) is one of its kind in the world. India has the fifth largest installed wind capacity in the world at 2400 MW. In 2003 …

Targets or Diktats?

At Renewables 2004 "an international action plan will be on the agenda, including actions and commitments by governments, international organisations and stakeholders,' says the conference announcement document. "The conference outcome will include arrangements for a follow-up and a mechanism to share information on progress in implementing the international action plan.' …

Opting for renewables

According to IEA’s factsheet, Renewables in global energy supply, the wind energy sector has grown at more than 52 per cent per annum since 1971, and solar power by 32 per cent per annum. Renewables in 2000 accounted for 13.8 per cent of the world’s total primary energy supply (electricity, …

Time to Plug in

There is a prominently held view that dissemination of renewable energy technology is marred by high costs. It’s true that a few technologies like wind power have become cheaper, but others are still expensive. Solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind energy now cost one-tenth of what they did in the early …

Opting for renewables

According to IEA's factsheet, Renewables in global energy supply, the wind energy sector has grown at more than 52 per cent per annum since 1971, and solar power by 32 per cent per annum. Renewables in 2000 accounted for 13.8 per cent of the world's total primary energy supply (electricity, …

India: aim, hope high

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Targets or diktats?

At Renewables 2004, "an international action plan will be on the agenda, including actions and commitments by governments, international organisations and stakeholders," says the conference announcement document. "The conference outcome will include arrangements for a follow-up and a mechanism to share information on progress in implementing the international action plan." …

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