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 …
Efforts to conserve energy and reduce emissions of associated greenhouse gases often focus on improving the efficiency of current technologies. However, in many instances, changing the ways in which a service is provided may open up greater opportunities to reduce energy use than attempting to make current ways of delivering …
How much energy is required to power the ever-expanding online world? What percentage of global greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to the IT sector? This report takes a look at the energy choices some of the largest and fastest growing IT companies are making, as the race to build "the …
This new report by UNEP provides a review of policies and initiatives promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production. It reviews 56 case studies, highlights the best practices and offers recommendations to scale up and replicate them worldwide. The Global Outlook on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Policies, developed by the United …
World Development Indicators 2012 is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people’s lives. Organized around six themes—world view, people, the environment, the economy, states and markets, and global links—it aims to put data into the hands of policy makers, development specialists, …
This new World Bank report discusses India’s best improved biomass stove programs and suggests policies and practical ways to promote the use of cleaner burning, energy efficient, and affordable stoves. In a largely globalized era characterized by technological advancements, many developing countries still depend on biomass energy for sustenance. Much …
This report investigates the global state of cleantech innovation in entrepreneurial start-up companies. We are currently faced with a range of climate, energy and economic challenges. Technology startups provide one of the most important vehicles for developing and commercializing innovation to meet these challenges, while generating value for investors. This …
The Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific explores the opportunities that a low carbon green growth path offers to the region. It articulates five tracks on which to drive the economic system change necessary to pursue low carbon green growth as a new economic development path. …
The objective of this paper is to identify the nature of incentives available in India to address climate change, specifically by encouraging Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) initiatives, both of which are fundamental to India’s climate change strategy. Higher fossil fuel prices, energy security concerns and environmental considerations …
The Asian Development Bank will provide a $100-million credit line to ICICI Bank to fund renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. The central bank's board approved the sanction on Wednesday. The credit will be available to projects identified by the ADB and ICICI Bank. This is taking into consideration Indian …
As per the Electricity Act, 2003, CEA is to prepare the National Electricity Plan (NEP) once in five years. The Act stipulates that CEA, while preparing the NEP, shall publish the draft of the same and invite suggestions and objections thereon from licensees, generating companies and the public. Thereafter, the …
Power crisis has spurred engineering students to devise energy-saving projects this year What if you had an application in your building that could track which household uses the maximum electricity and could calculate extra tariffs for that specific household? Would the timing and duration of load shedding differ for everybody …
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a global collaboration, on Thursday launched two new standards to empower corporates to better measure, manage, and report emissions. Developed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the standards — Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) and Product Life Cycle Standards …
Big business will prove an unexpected ally of the European Commission in pushing for firm policy to cut carbon after existing 2020 targets expire, as companies draw up their own plans for a future of greener power. Many business leaders, independent of official European Union policy, take the view that …
Suzlon Energy has rallied 7% to Rs 30.25 after the world's fifth largest wind turbine maker, late Monday announced the launch of its latest 1.5 MW range turbine S8X for the Indian market, the next generation low-wind turbine focused on harnessing Class III, low-wind sites. “The new turbine is specifically …
The European Union (EU) has provided Rs 210 million to implement the project titled "Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln and other Sustainable Construction Practices. The EU grant to be spent through Deutsche Management Akademie Niedersachsen (DMAN, Germany) covers 90 percent of the project cost while the remaining part will be borne …
A final decision on the fuel efficiency norms for cars has been laid at the doorstep of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. This fructuous issue has seen much wrangling between the automobile industry, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency and experts outside the government. BEE head Ajay Mathur said, “We are close …
Girish Sant, a leading energy sector analyst and the coordinator of the Prayas Energy Group – a Pune-based voluntary organisation working on policy analysis and advocacy in the energy sector – died in New Delhi on 2 February after a cardiac arrest. A tribute by his colleagues.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) could soon find itself butting heads with Brussels over how best to tackle emissions from international shipping, analysts say, after the UN shipping body was unable to make "tangible progress" in this area at last week's major meeting.
NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister's Office will decide whether the country will have fuel efficiency standards for cars or not. After four years of wrangling and a final draft policy being prepared, the decision has been left to the PMO in view of the "sensitivities" involved after auto manufacturers opposed …
The Maharashtra government is examining issues relating to the implementation of uniform power rate in Mumbai. This was triggered by a report prepared by Price waterhouse Coopers (PwC) given to the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC). Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar had recently announced the state was keen to introduce …
