The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since …
Large scale integration of Renewable Energy (RE) into a power system poses multiple technical and commercial challenges to the stake holders of the system. It is critical to address these challenges for large scale integration of RE into the power system. This section of the report describes the major techno-commercial …
Carmaker meets govt, ARAI; agrees to give evaluation results by Nov-end The emission scandal that broke out in the US has come to haunt German automaker Volkswagen in India, too. The company’s representatives in India on Thursday met officials at the Ministry of Heavy industries and the Automotive Research Association …
German auto giant Volkswagen booked Wednesday its first quarterly loss in 15 years in the wake of the global pollution-cheating scandal which also forced it to lower its full-year forecasts. VW said provisions related to its admission that it fitted 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide with sophisticated software to skew …
At least 80 world leaders, including Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, David Cameron and Narendra Modi, will attend a summit tasked with agreeing a global climate pact in Paris in December. Diplomats endorsed the outlines of the proposed deal in Bonn on Friday after five days of fraught negotiation that highlighted …
Europe’s biggest countries are lobbying for a proposed EU cap on nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution from cars to be weakened in a vote on Wednesday, despite the VW diesel emissions scandal and revelations that 90% of cars do not currently meet pollution standards when on the road. The UK has …
There is a strong scientific consensus that bees are exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides in fields and suffer harm from the doses received, according to a new analysis of the all the scientific evidence to date. But almost no data exists so far on whether this harm ultimately leads to falls …
Disputes over financing for poor nations hampered negotiations on Friday among almost 200 countries racing against the clock to seal an accord on combating global warming at a UN climate summit in Paris in December. Some delegates said they feared a repeat of the 2009 summit in Copenhagen when governments …
Recognizing "renewable energy" and "efficient use of energy" as the most effective routes to mitigate climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions, India and Germany on Monday decided to move on this path more aggressively under the new 'Indo-German Climate and Renewable Alliance'. They identified seven focus areas to intensify their ongoing cooperation. …
Giving a thrust on clean energy, Germany on Monday pledged about one billion euros (Rs 7,300 crore) assistance for India’s solar projects as the two countries decided to forge a renewable alliance to boost cooperation in the sector. The joint statement issued after the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi …
India and Germany on Monday decided to forge an Indo-German Climate and Renewable Alliance, a partnership to harness technology, innovation and finance in order to make affordable, clean and renewable energy accessible to all and foster climate change mitigation efforts. According to an Indo-German Joint Statement on Climate Change and …
Just days after India unveiled its climate action plan targeting to cut its greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 33-35%, climate change negotiations and financing for clean energy will be one the focal points of discussion between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday. For this third …
German authorities has given scandal-hit Volkswagen an October 7 deadline to set out a timeline for bringing all its diesel cars in line with national pollution guidelines, a newspaper said on Sunday. The federal motor vehicle office (KBA) told VW to set out “binding measures and a timetable” by the …
Reuters) - Volkswagen's own staff and one of its suppliers warned years ago about software designed to thwart emissions tests, two German newspapers reported on Sunday, as the automaker tries to uncover whether its executives knew about the cheating. Europe's biggest automaker is adding up the cost of the biggest …
Carmaker faces class action suits after admitting 11m of its cars were designed to cheat emissions testing Volkswagen has hired the US law firm that defended BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster to help it deal with a growing collection of investigations and law suits over the emissions scandal …
Instead of going to the pub in the evening, German student Christian Klinge puts on his old sneakers and sets off to forage through bins behind supermarkets and restaurants in Berlin to find food that can still be eaten. The 22-year-old is part of a growing movement of people in …
German energy companies are short of as much as 30 billion euros ($34 billion) of the money they need to set aside to build a safe disposal site for nuclear waste as part of the country's exit from nuclear power, Spiegel Online reported on Monday. E.ON, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall …
The end of August brought about an encouraging event for Germany’s renewables industry, when for several hours on Sunday, August 23, some 80% of Germany’s electricity demand was met by renewable resources. The large output of renewable energy occurred between noon and the early afternoon. Wind and solar power generation …
The Viet Nam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST) and Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Co-oporation and Development have launched the "Programme on Conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity and ecosystems services in Viet Nam". The budget for project implementation is 4.950.000 euros (US$5.6 million) and the project will be jointly …
Europe’s industrial powerhouse Germany is transforming its energy supply by switching to renewable sources. Rather than slowing down the country's economy, which grew by 1.4 percent last year, Germany's green transition decreased energy demand by 5 percent and created additional 300,000 jobs. The German term “Energiewende” -- meaning energy transition …
A Dutch court on Wednesday said an environmental licence issued for a major new coal-fired plant built by RWE was granted properly, removing the last hurdle to operating the 3 billion euro ($3.36 billion) plant at full capacity. The Council of State dismissed objections by environmental groups including Greenpeace to …
