This brochure offers decision-makers in the real estate and energy industries, as well as urban and municipal developers, a broad overview of the topics of decentralised energy generation and supply, and raises awareness of the goal of decarbonisation by 2050 at the latest. The advancing digitalization in the construction and …
NAGPUR: Even though the entire 37-km forest stretch along NH7 between Mansar and Khawasa has been cleared of trees for four-laning, a Mumbai-based environment protection NGO has filed a fresh petition before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi, challenging the permission granted to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under …
Panaji: Water resources department's (WRD) attractive 50% subsidy since 2009 to harvest rainwater from rooftops has no takers. But a modified approach to recharging ground water has immense scope to catch raindrops, say water conservation experts. WRD had offered individual households and bigger residential complexes up to 50% of the …
NITI Aayog begins consultations with stakeholders With the Centre setting a steep target of increasing the country’s renewable energy generation capacity by nearly four and half folds from the present 38 GW to 175 GW by 2021-22, the national energy policy which is expected to be finalised by December-end, will …
Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti today asserted that the Namami Gange programme of the Union Government will start delivering positive results in the coming years. Bharti was addressing a workshop on the Ganga cleanliness programme at Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, today. She said the Union Government, led by Prime Minister …
Interested in saving the environment? CSE can provide the training and information you’ll need. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which was established in 1980, focuses on advocacy by spreading awareness on issues concerning the environment. The CSE primarily conducts research with the intent of simplifying facts relating to …
A day after dna reported that for the first time the civic body had notified 'silence zones', identifying over 1,500 locations across the city, activists have urged the BMC to map these zones. The notification was issued by the BMC's environment department last week, following a rap from the National …
Government today said an in-house rating of NGOs receiving grants from the Environment Ministry will be done to rank them on the basis of their performance. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, while releasing the 10th edition of 'Directory of Environment NGOs' said a system will be created to assess the performance …
Opposing mega dams on the Siang river in Arunachal Pradesh, an NGO on Monday appealed to the Centre not to give environmental clearance against all mega dams in Siang belt comprising four districts of Siang, East Siang, Upper Siang and West Siang. The Siang People’s Forum (SPF) in a memorandum …
Nagpur: Although Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) took some steps to ensure eco-friendly immersions, the condition of the city lakes only seems to be degrading as compared to previous years. A scientific survey conducted on Sunday by city-based NGO Green Vigil in three big lakes of the city, Sonegaon, Telangkhedi (Futala) …
NEW DELHI: An NGO on Wednesday moved the National Green Tribunal against the rampant illegal sand mining being carried out in Jalaun and Hamirpur districts of Uttar Pradesh, prompting the National Green Tribunal to direct authorities to immediately stop these activities. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi issued …
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Srikurmam temple in Srikakulam, which is the only temple in south India dedicated to the Kurmam (tortoise) avatar of Lord Vishnu, may have created a record of sorts with the captive breeding of 55 star tortoise hatchlings in 2014, but this year the number of hatchlings has come …
The renewal of 88 iron ore mining leases by the Goa government in 2015 is illegal and a violation of a Supreme Court order which cancelled all leases in 2014, a green NGO has said. In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed with the apex court, the NGO has also …
PANAJI: Goa Foundation, the NGO that took the state government to the Supreme Court over illegal mining in the state has once again knocked the Supreme Court's doors to challenge the state government's renewal of 88 mining leases and revoking the environmental clearances (ECs) given to 72 mining leases which …
670 km stretch of East-West Corridor The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) seems to be out of step with present-day concerns over climate change and its impact. Only this can explain NHAI's hemming and hawing over re-plantation of more than 1.36 lakh trees it got chopped down in the …
Around 47 tonnes of dried flowers, leaves and decorative plants used during the last five days of the Ganpati festival have been collected from the Nirmalya bins set up at immersion ghats and all over the city by the civic authorities. The floral waste has been sent to TMC's waste …
Much like the calculation of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that indicates a country's economic health, the Dehradun-based Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization (HESCO) is pushing for a new concept called the Gross Environmental Product (GEP), which will indicate the overall health of the environment. Working on the unique …
An NGO, Vanashakti, has filed a petition in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking removal of all concrete bases in the critical root zone of trees in Mumbai. It has not only challenged the claims made by BMC in its recent affidavit that it had de-concretised bases of 11,790 trees, …
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Gurgaon) Vinay Pratap Singh, who is also the nodal officer of the Haryana Renewable Development Agency (HAREDA), has said that a single window “solar facilitation centre” would be opened at the Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Park near Leisure Valley here to promote solar energy. Mr. Singh was speaking …
To facilitate an environment-friendly Ganeshotsav, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has directed its regional offices to carry out water quality monitoring of water bodies where idol immersion takes place in their jurisdiction. Among the other guidelines proposed for implementation by the authorities concerned is to restrict immersion of idol …
The National Green Tribunal has imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on East Delhi Municipal Corporation for indiscriminate dumping and burning of municipal solid waste in east Delhi. In another case, the NGT has directed the Delhi government and the Centre to hold a meeting of the high court appointed …
