This overview sets the scene for the various modules in the Renewables 2024 Global Status Report Collection. It provides high-level trends on the status of renewables in the wider fossil fuel-dominated energy system in the context of global challenges such as climate change, development goals and the geopolitical landscape. Urgent …
Power Minister Piyush Goyal today ruled out incentives like cheaper loans and other government support for adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code 2017. The minister stressed that the economies of scale like in the case of LED bulb distribution programme, would help the nation to adopt better technologies at competitive …
Are you hooked on to websites selling used products or one of those who don't discard but resell? If the latest report by the Centre for Environment Education (CCE) is to be believed, you are doing a massive service for our planet and the humanity by reducing your carbon footprint. …
Killer heat is getting worse, a new study shows. Deadly heat waves like the one now broiling the American West are bigger killers than previously thought and they are going to grow more frequent, according to a new comprehensive study of fatal heat conditions. Still, those stretches may be less …
The decision by India and Russia at the recent (June 1) annual Summit to undertake joint economic projects in third countries including in the area of clean energy have opened up possibilities of collaboration in civilian nuclear energy sector. India and Russia are currently fine-tuning their civil nuclear energy partnership …
Green growth policies need to be founded on a good understanding of the determinants of green growth and need to be supported with appropriate indicators to monitor progress. This book presents a selection of updated and new indicators that illustrate the progress that OECD and G20 countries have made since …
RISHIKESH: In a first of its kind initiative, 'green' crematoriums are planned to be built in villages along the Ganga (which have been branded as Ganga grams under the Namami Gange project). These crematoriums, which will come up in villages along the river at Rishikesh, Haridwar, Uttarkashi and Gangotri will …
Mozambique topped the list because almost all its energy use comes from green sources. Johannesburg: Mozambique, the southern African country rated as one of the poorest, has topped a survey of nations with the lowest global environmental impact while India has ranked a dismal 75th in the report. Mozambique topped …
India’s coal-fired power capacity may hardly grow over the next decade despite plans to build new plants as older facilities that can’t meet new environmental guidelines face closure. India’s coal-fired power capacity may hardly grow over the next decade despite plans to build new plants as older facilities that can’t …
Mozambique, the southern African country rated as one of the poorest, has topped a survey of nations with the lowest global environmental impact while India has ranked a dismal 75th in the report. Mozambique topped the list because almost all its energy use comes from green sources. India, on the …
ClimateCare is pleased to announce it has extended its partnership with stove manufacturer, Burn Manufacturing to widen access to affordable, energy efficient cooking stoves in Kenya. The programme uses climate finance to support the manufacture and distribution of Burn’s market leading ‘Jikokoa’ stove, that dramatically reduces charcoal consumption and diminishes …
Global carbon emissions remained flat for the third year in a row, driven by a globally weak demand for energy and a cleaner energy mix, according to the latest edition of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, published incongruously enough by British multinational oil and gas company, BP. While …
Production of the fossil fuel dropped by a record amount in 2016, according to BP Plc’s annual review of global energy trends. China, the world’s biggest energy consumer, burned the least coal in six years and use dropped in the U.S to a level last seen in the 1970s, the …
Though biodiversity and carbon storage have been linked in past forest research, a new study using Amazon, Congo and Borneo data found no consistent correlation. Tropical forest diversity and carbon richness not linked, study finds Scientists theorize that increased forest biodiversity also increases productivity (growth), and therefore carbon sequestration. But, …
The 2017 edition of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, shows global energy markets continuing to undergo long-term changes as they also adapt to nearer-term price challenges. Data published in the Review – the 66th annual edition – clearly demonstrate the long-term transitions now underway in the markets, with …
President Donald Trump – the man who wants to make America great again – wants to sit with the likes of Nicaragua and Syria in the dugout while the rest of the world tries to clean up its climate act. Ironically, America is tucking its feet under even as nearly …
Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (MMRCL) officials said on Thursday that the Metro 3 project would reduce carbon dioxide emissions on a larger scale in the long run than the reduction in emissions due to the cutting of trees for the project. Speaking to the press, Subodh Gupta, Director (Projects), …
However, the temperature rise in India is sober considering that the world is on track for far more warming. India is now two and a half times more likely to experience a deadly heat wave than a half century ago, and all it took was an increase in the average …
Barely one tenth of renewable energy technology is ready to meet long-term climate change targets as governments have failed to adequately support large-scale deployment, a report by the International Energy Agency showed on Tuesday. Under a global climate pact, called the Paris Agreement, nearly 200 countries agreed last year to …
As part of its contribution to World Environment Day, ride-hailing app Uber has released a ‘Green Index’, which showed that with the launch of uberPOOL, it has effectively managed to reduce congestion and pollution in New Delhi. The launch of uberPOOL in the city helped save 936,000 litres of fuel …
While addressing a press conference, Vardhan said, “India is the most honest in terms of commitment for respected issues related to the environment, fight against pollution, preservation of biodiversity, forest, nature, river and everything. Reacting to reports of United States President Donald Trump pulling out of the Paris climate accord, …
