Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Scientists and officials from across the world meet in Thailand this week for the first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact by the end of 2009. Around 190 nations agreed in Bali last year to start the two-year negotiations …
A meeting of United Nations member states in Bangkok on Monday to discuss climate change is the first in a series this year at which the action plan adopted at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007, will be translated into concrete steps on the road …
Tens of millions of people switched off lightbulbs this weekend as part of a global campaign to throw the spotlight on climate change, organisers of the Australian-led
One vision of a "polar city' in an overheated world. (Illustration by Deng Cheng-hong)Danny Bloom, a freelance writer, translator and editor living in Taiwan, is on a one-man campaign to get people to seriously consider a worst-case prediction of the British chemist and inventor James Lovelock: life in "polar cities' …
IF the world is going to sharply reduce the amount of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by midcentury, then many businesses will have to go carbon neutral, bringing their net emissions of the greenhouse gas to zero. GREEN GIANTS Algae, which have a high energy value per pound and …
Greenpeace India, an international environmental organisation, has launched its paper, Blue Alert- climate migrants in South Asia: Estimates and solutions, in the city on Tuesday. This is a part of the organisation's emphasis on the crisis that will be faced by the South Asian region if global warming is not …
Animal rights activists on Tuesday urged Japanese baseball stadiums to give up their usual fare of hot dogs and fried octopus balls and go vegetarian to fight global warming. Japan's baseball commissioners announced as the season opened last week that the national pastime would take action to reduce greenhouse gas …
Everyone talks about the future weather, but so far nobody has done much about it, not even the many people and politicians convinced that climate change will be a serious problem. This situation comes as no surprise to the behavioral researchers who have been studying the human brain's penchant for …
Soot from biomass burning, diesel exhaust has 60 percent of the effect of carbon dioxide on warming but mitigation offers immediate benefits Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere …
The use of coal will continue the world over because of its abundant and cheap supply, but Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) can be a crucial technology to check its global-warming carbon dioxide emissions, says a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The CCS deployment will not only help …
Last year, as United Nations scientists were warning of the perils of man-made climate change, this small country of fjords and factories reacted with an extraordinary pledge: by 2050 Norway would be "carbon neutral,' generating no net greenhouse gases into the air. Times Topics: Global WarmingNorway's bold promise raised the …
The new government of South Korea, among the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, plans to cap emissions at 2005 levels for the next five years in spite of Seoul's exemption from cuts under the Kyoto protocol. The environment ministry presented the proposal to freeze emissions until 2012 in a …
Maximum energy conservation efforts at companies and households may allow Japan to cut greenhouse gas emissions in fiscal 2020 by 11 percent from fiscal 2005, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Wednesday. In a long-term energy demand and supply outlook submitted to the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources …
In a bid to check the city's contribution to global warming, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has listed eleven sectors where it will undertake a study of greenhouse emissions. In fact, the BMC will be the first municipal corporation in the country to take up this massive exercise. The agency …
World and we are taking steps to make it happen. The Montreal Climate Exchange should be activated this year. Besides, we have indicated very publicly our intention to provide exchange services, standardisation, low transaction costs and price transparency in any environment. What is the nature of your tie-up with the …
On the tortuous road to saving the planet from climate change, one traffic rule stands out. Drivers who speed risk paying a price. For the European Union to venture out of the slow lane with a pledge to adopt by 2009 binding targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions is therefore …
Washington: China's current carbon emission levels have set alarm bells ringing for environmentalists as they are likely to upset global greenhouse stabilisation efforts. The researchers' most conservative forecast predicts that by 2010, there will be an increase of 600 million metric tons of carbon emissions in China over the country's …
Investments in solar power, wind energy, bio-fuels, and fuel cells surged 40% last year to $US77.3 billion ($A83.6 million) and will more than triple in the next decade, according to industry group Clean Edge. Revenue from alternatives to oil, coal and other fossil fuels will reach $US254.5 billion by 2017, …
The Cabinet approved a bill Tuesday to revise the energy-saving law, aiming to cut at least 5 million more tons of carbon dioxide emissions by toughening rules on the commercial sector, including office buildings and convenience stores. The revision is the government's latest effort to meet Japan's Kyoto Protocol target …
