Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board in the matter of Suo Moto case titled "Haryana 60.48% groundwater over exploited Kurukshetra worst Jhajjar best says" appearing in the Tribune, January 8, 2025. The CGWA report, May 3, 2025 addresses the issue of groundwater exploitation and violation of …
Experts Demand Environment-Friendly Building Norms For New Urban Areas New Delhi: The new areas of Delhi, categorized as ‘urbanizable areas’ in Master Plan 2021, are mainly tracts of farmland dotted with farmhouses. But now that they have been opened up for urbanization, city-based urban planners and architects want the government …
New Delhi: The focus of energy efficiency has usually been large buildings, whether residential or commercial. Now, there is a project that will help smaller buildings reduce their carbon footprint. An offshoot of GRIHA — the green rating for integrated habitat assessment — SVAGRIHA has been conceptualized especially for buildings …
Oorjasree is conceived by Niravu, a residential forum Power Minister Aryadan Mohammed launched Oorjasree, an energy conservation project conceived and introduced by Niravu, a residential forum, at Vengeri here on Sunday. It will be implemented by the 101 residents of the forum. The scheme was aimed at systematically reducing residential …
The Climate Action Tracker has updated our analysis on national greenhouse gas emission reduction proposals for 2020 under the international climate negotiations. We find that governments are taking action to implement their reduction proposals, but many are set to fail in reaching those proposals. Recent highlights include the agreed link …
Future greenhouse-gas emissions need to deviate from a fossil-fuel intensive scenario to avoid dangerous climate change, and this implies feedback links between climate change and societal actions. Research shows that the global growth of new renewable energy post-1990 represents an annual climate–society feedback of ∼ 0.25% per degree increase in …
With the long-term goal of promoting and accelerating the implementation of climate mitigation technologies, this study aims to facilitate the development of a policy framework for promoting sustainable investment climates for climate-friendly investments in South Asia and elsewhere. A key aspect of the study is also a pilot initiative for …
This roadmap explores the potential improvement of existing technologies to enhance average fuel economy of motorised vehicles and provides recommendations to reduce the average fuel economy of road motorised vehicles by 30% to 50% by 2030. This roadmap explores the potential improvement of existing technologies to enhance the average fuel …
As the industrial sector has the largest sectoral share of final energy consumption in India this paper focuses on the assessment of energy savings potential in seven highly energy consuming industries. The paper estimates the energy savings potential for each of these industries using unit level Annual Survey of Industries …
One of the key environmental problems facing India is that of particle pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels. This has serious health consequences and with the rapid growth in the economy these impacts are increasing. At the same time, economic growth is an imperative and policy makers are concerned …
This new IEA report reviews India's energy sector & identifies challenges towards achieving sustainable energy future. It explores policies, players & issues in power, coal, oil/gas, renewables & nuclear sector. Understanding Energy Challenges in India aims to provide an informative and holistic understanding of India’s energy sector to stakeholders in …
This study provided socio-economic scenarios for key indicators at the national and state level in India. The study: developed scenarios of economic growth and other key social indicators using national-level data sets; explored the interactions between agriculture, energy, water and climate change via a case study of a canal system …
One of the strong messages that came out of the recent United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban was that the private sector has to play an important role if we are to globally move toward a low carbon, climate resilient—or “climate compatible”—future. However, private investment will only flow at …
This report sets out the final recommendations of the Panel for the role, design, and operations of the CDM. Presented at the 69th meeting of the CDM Executive Board (September 2012) and subsequently made public, it affirms the importance of maintaining the CDM as a tool to help address the …
This report discusses the role of ICT in the smart grid with a view of energy efficiency, with the ultimate goal of hindering climate changes. This is done by starting from the consideration that ICT equipment consumes energy too, and this extra energy consumption could be quite significant. This leads …
The Tamil Nadu Government has commenced the implementation of its ambitious programme to provide solar-powered lights to 300,000 homes in the State. Work on this has been going on in the last couple of weeks in the Tiruchi district and 60,000 homes would be lighted in the current financial year, …
The government is making £1.25m in grants available for studies that develop energy-efficiency technologies for computing and communications. Applicants for funding will need to focus on the design and development of energy-efficient hardware and software. The remit includes studies for large-scale systems relying on computer capacity as well as studies …
After more than a century lighting up the world, the switch will be flicked off across the EU for the final time on incandescent bulbs on Saturday as the phased ban on their sale is completed. From 1 September, an EU directive aimed at reducing the energy use of lighting …
President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Thursday that would increase the number of cogeneration plants in the U.S. by 50 percent by 2020, a move that would boost U.S. industrial energy efficiency and slash carbon emissions by 150 million tons per year. The order is the administration's latest …
ABB is tweaking its products, systems and services to make sustainability an integral part of its business model, much like a Unilever or a GE. It is finding this to be a pathway to new business opportunities and a source of competitive advantage, reports Naren Karunakaran Bazmi Husain, the managing …
Fuel distributor MRH says it can reduce energy costs by almost 90% after replacing the lights at its 350 petrol station forecourts. The company, which spends £300k a year on lighting costs and electrical maintenance, could save £260k annually after replacing its incandescent bulbs with Light-Emitting Diode (LED) counterparts. Petrol …
