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 …
Replicating Manhattan with all its imposing skyscrapers in Mumbai does sound like a dream come true. But do highrises offer a sustainable solution for our land starved metros that are rapidly suffocating under the weight of an ever increasing populace and a crumbling infrastructure?
The global meltdown led to expectations governments would use money to reinvent economies for climate change. The plan was simple: spend obscene amounts of public money in infrastructure and other projects, to stimulate national economies. If this money got spent on all those things which would improve the environmental sustainability …
All the IT companies ranked in the report fared poorly on demonstrable climate solutions for the economy despite their claims. The information technology industry is perhaps not as environment friendly as is commonly believed, according to the findings of a Greenpeace Study. The results of the Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will now work for climate change in the Capital. MCD mayor Kanwar Sain today said that the corporation will have funds earmarked for mitigating the effects of climate change. He made the announcement after attending the C-40 Large Cities Climate Summit held at Seoul …
It has been a long while since "Old Europe" was at the frontier of anything very much. But in energy and environmental policy it has blazed a trail that many other economies are now following, most notably the US under Barack Obama, the president. David Buchan, a former energy editor …
Tens of billions of dollars are likely to be needed to help poor nations curb greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change under a new U.N. treaty, European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said. "Everybody agreed that additional money is needed and without money an agreement in Copenhagen will not …
Aiming to drastically cut its emissions of planet-warming pollutants, Britain is telling its home builders to design a new generation of super-efficient houses that use only clean power and add no net carbon to the atmosphere. Its rules will mandate that all new homes be zero-carbon by 2016, one of …
Hospitals and their emergency vehicles, which are major polluters, must join the fight against climate change, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. "The health sector can contribute a lot to reduce the carbon footprint because the health sector in many countries is the second most important user and energy …
Industry should play its part in the fight against climate change by persuading governments to boost carbon cuts rather than lobbying against them, the UN Secretary-General told a business conference. Business leaders met in Denmark on Sunday to try to unite behind a call for long-term climate policies on oil, …
AHMEDABAD: One of the main clinchers for Ahmedabad being rated as the numero uno city to have implemented environment-friendly measures in its operations was cutting down on energy consumption. Despite being a city with one of the highest electricity consumption and in the absence of an energy policy, AMC has …
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) through UNDP has selected National Energy Conservation Centre (Enercon) to initiate a regional project titled 'Barrier Removal to Energy Efficiency Standards and Labelling', in Pakistan costing $7.8 million of which an amount of $1million has been allocated to ease regional trade in energy efficient appliances. …
AHMEDABAD: Godrej group's proposed 270-acre Ahmedabad township Godrej Garden City has made it to the 16 founding projects being taken up globally by Clinton Climate Initiative's Climate Positive Development Programme (CPDP) for clean and green urban development. The 16 projects, which aim at providing one million people living and working …
Daishin Investment Trust Management, which runs a climate change fund that invests in companies engaged in disaster relief, plans a new commodities fund this year to capitalize on the effects of global warming. Yong-Jin Kim, who manages Daishin's $20 million Global Climate Change fund, likes makers of fire trucks, rescue …
The United States and European Union can pay to transfer to developing countries more than three-quarters of proposed carbon cuts over the next decade, draft and approved rules show. That reinforces how rich countries may agree in December to tough targets to beat climate change, under a new treaty to …
The State Government has sanctioned 14.5 lakh new electricity connections in the past three years, according to an official spokesperson. At least seven Assembly constituencies have achieved the target of total electrification. Eighty more constituencies are aiming to achieve the target, which is under various stages of implementation. The period …
