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 …
Chennai: Time was when Ambattur was dotted with water bodies that supplied most of the locality’s drinking water. Now, mindless ‘development’ and indiscriminate letting out of sewage has destroyed most of the lakes, leaving residents struggling to save the few that remain. Three of the eight water bodies in East …
Says it is high time the Himalayan states got together to voice their environmental significance and concerns strongly. Padma Shri awardee, green activist from Uttarakhand, Dr Anil Prakash Joshi on Monday strongly advocated the need for introducing the concept of Gross Environmental Product (GEP) to indicate overall health of environment …
Pattern of climate is changing, which is worrisome. It is an important issue that may affect the future of mankind. This was stated by Professor Emeritus Dr CK Varshney while delivering the keynote address at an event, “We4Climate: Lecture Series on Climate Change and Sustainable Development”, at an auditorium in …
The mountain solar water heating system, known as hamam, which drastically reduces fuel wood requirement and makes clean energy available to rural households in harsh freezing conditions, is all set to go global. The solar hamams were developed by Shimla-based NGO Himalayan Research Group. NGO director Lal Singh said solar …
The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and the Punjab Plastic Waste Management Society (PPWMS) on Tuesday launched a five-year programme for effectively managing post-consumer multi-layered packaging (MLP) in the state. It was inaugurated by Environment Minister OP Soni and PPCB chairman Prof Satwinder Singh Marwaha, marking the fourth anniversary of …
MUMBAI: Ahead of the final immersion day of Ganeshotsav, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis defended the Bombay high court’s ban on DJ and Dolby sound on Sunday and said Lord Ganesha does not need such hi-tech sound amplifying systems. While anti-noise crusaders found that Mumbai followed the diktat and recorded the …
Four local NGOs on Sunday joined hands to protect the environment of the town. At a meeting convened by NGO People’s Voice which was attended by members of INSAF, Parivartan, the Dhauladhar Sewa Samiti and a number of intellectuals, senior citizens and mediapersons, the NGOs expressed concern over large-scale environmental …
A Kalakirti initiative, the sixth Goa Environmental Festival has organised a slew of environment-based activities in collaboration with various organisations for the three-day festival which commences today, on August 31 at Kala Academy in Panjim For many years Kalakirti Goa Environmental Festival (GEF) has been creating awareness on the importance …
GURUGRAM: In a plantation drive, MCG is planning to have around 80,000 trees and shrubs planted this season in several parks across the city. According to officials, of the 80,000, around 60,000 would be the shrubs and another 20,000 would be trees. “The number of shrubs is on the higher …
Doctors and NGOs urge the Centre and the State to ban lime or chuna in plastic sachets used in betel chewing and also acids used as cleaning agents in home. CHENNAI:Doctors and NGOs urge the Centre and the State to ban lime or chuna in plastic sachets used in betel …
PANAJI: Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar has said that concerns raised by state legislators over the environment ministry's draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification 2018 are unwarranted. Even if it is finalised, the draft CRZ notification cannot be implemented without consulting the public, Parrikar said in the state Assembly yesterday. …
As per the government data, 25 cases of different types of cancer were reported in the village in five years. As many as 25 cases of cancer have been reported from Harsola village in Indore district in the last five years, an NGO has claimed, prompting the government to announce …
GURUGRAM: The forest department has sought a break from tree-felling in view of the monsoon and would like instead to focus on proposed plantation drives for the next two months. “Our office gets a lot of requests for tree-felling. The staff members generally remain busy in inspecting sites and giving …
There are two main funding mechanisms to provide finance for projects in developing countries that will help fight climate change effects — the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF). And, there is not-so-good news from both of them. Last week, a board meeting of the GCF …
Welfare minister says government’s efforts are yet to show results. Nagpur: Women and child welfare minister, Pankaja Munde on Thursday admitted in legislative council that 26,619 infants and children died across the state between October 2016 to February 2018. Though the government has undertaken efforts to reduce the number of …
In 2015, rapper Sofia Ashraf, social activist Nityanand Jayaraman and filmmaker Rathindran R Prasad came together to make a video, titled Kodaikanal Won’t, that hit out at Unilever for not cleaning up mercury contamination and not compensating the workers in its thermometer factory in Kodaikanal. The video went viral forcing …
In a testimony of Government’s absolute non-seriousness towards environment degradation, Environment Policy draft is gathering dust in the official files during the past nearly one year due to lack of coordination between the concerned departments. Moreover, fresh State of Environment Report has not been prepared since 2015 in blatant violation …
Playing a crucial role to mitigate climate change and other environmental challenges across the globe, India on Tuesday announced it will increase for the next four years the money it pays to the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a mechanism to provide grants for environmental projects. India’s representative to GEF Council …
GURUGRAM: Over 25,000 native plants will be planted over 100 hectares in the Aravalis as part of a pilot project to increase greenery across the forests and consequently reduce the density of mesquites. Forest officials said they would start planting trees like dhau, dhak, ronj, gugal and karonda on rocky …
Vijayawada: Stating that AP is going to become the seed hub of the country, agriculture minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy observed that producing the global standard quality seed will be high on the agenda of the proposed mega seed park in Kurnool. He said that farmers, scientists, private organisations and NGOs …
