Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Global aviation experts agreed on Monday to the world’s first carbon dioxide emissions standards for new and existing aircraft programs, in a deal that environmental groups said does not go far enough. The new standards, aimed at makers of small and large planes alike, will apply to all new aircraft …
President and CEO of World Resources Institute says the US has only about 25 gigawatts of solar capacity Praising India's climate change initiatives in the run-up to the Paris summit, an eminent American expert has said the implementation of renewable energy targets has the potential to "drastically shift" global markets. …
The global agreement reached at the climate summit in Paris could prompt the amount of bonds this year issued to finance low-carbon projects to exceed $50 billion, Moody's Investor Service said on Tuesday. This would follow a record $42.4 billion issuance in 2015. The proceeds from so-called green bonds help …
The climate report said that no INDC from a G20 country is found to have ‘no credible basis’ across all the determinants explored in the analysis. G20 member countries, including India, should strengthen the credibility of their climate action plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to build “confidence” …
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi returned to Cairo on Sunday from the African Union summit held in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. During the summit, which took place on Saturday and Sunday, African leaders unanimously approved two initiatives proposed by Egypt on climate change in the continent. As Coordinator …
Ministry of Natural Resources Energy and Mining Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services alongside Department of Disaster Management Affairs have taken a new approach in Managing Climate change effects originating from El Nino (the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean) through Disaster Insurance Plan amount to 30 Million …
Countries, including members of the G20, should strengthen the credibility of their pledges to limit or reduce annual emissions of greenhouse gases in order to build confidence in the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to a new report published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the …
Economic losses from the impacts of climate change in Southeast Asia could be 60% higher than previously estimated, reducing the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) by up to 11% by 2100, according to a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) study. The analysis is an update to a 2009 ADB report …
PM Modi and President Hollande inaugurate interim headquarters in Gurgaon Taking a step forward to formalise the International Solar Alliance (ISA), Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande inaugurated the interim headquarters of the ISA on Monday at the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), Gurgaon. The ISA’s …
To reach the level of investment in new renewable power generation needed to avert dangerous climate change, $12.1 trillion of investment will be needed over the next 25 years, which is $5.2 trillion above business-as-usual projections, a new report by Ceres and Bloomberg New Energy Finance concludes. Clean energy investment …
Acknowledging that the Paris agreement on climate change is not perfect and not legally binding, US President Barack Obama said today that the mechanisms built into it will nevertheless hold every country accountable for meeting its commitments. Describing himself as "passionate" about confronting climate change, Obama said few countries will …
CO2 dominates the total GHG emissions and the energy sector comprising of electricity production, manufacturing industries, transport sector and fugitive emissions generates the maximum CO2 in the country. The energy sector in India is responsible for 71% of country's total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG's), a report from India to the …
Indian Industry, which will play an important role in meeting the goals set by India's INDCs, will need to meet obligations even as they capitalise on new business opportunities. Mr Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India, said, it is equally a question …
The Paris pact to limit global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees will still result in some parts of the planet warming by as much as 6 degrees due to regional variations, researchers in Switzerland and Australia said. While the world will likely pass two degrees of warming by …
The Paris pact to limit global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees will still result in some parts of the planet warming by as much as 6 degrees due to regional variations, researchers in Switzerland and Australia said. While the world will likely pass two degrees of warming by …
A group of shareholders in ExxonMobil urged the oil giant on Tuesday to detail the resilience of its business model to climate change, a month after the Paris agreement set the world on course to transform its fossil fuel-driven economy. The coalition of investors represents nearly $300 billion in assets …
To help India meet its climate targets agreed upon in Paris, the Indian industry will need to meet their obligations to move towards a low-carbon economy even as they capitalise on new business opportunities, the government said on Wednesday. "There are huge opportunities in renewables across generation, evacuation, storage as …
International Solar Alliance, pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, forged on the sidelines of the recently-concluded Paris climate change summit will unlock opportunities for the private sector in clean energy, the government today said. It also asserted that the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) or climate action plan of …
Nuclear Power plant Power plants will be allowed to sell their un-requisitioned capacity– which has been abandoned by the procurer despite existing power purchase agreements– in the open market through power exchanges. The Cabinet on Wednesday approved several changes to the tariff policy for the power sector, with the broad …
When future generations write the history of humanity's faltering quest to repair Earth's climate system, 2015 will have its own chapter. Nature, along with the usually fractious family of nations, conspired to make it a landmark year: almost certainly the hottest on record for the planet as a whole, and …
