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 …
With a majority of buildings coming up being small in size, the government has come out with a draft notification to make eco-compliance mandatory for such projects. The smaller projects, with a built-up area of over 5,000 square metres to 20,000 square metres, will have to comply with environmental conditions …
In a major environment-friendly move to conserve energy, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation will change all its two lakh conventional park and streetlights to the LED ones. The ambitious project will cost the civic body `336 crore, but will cut its power bill by over 50 per cent. As per …
HYDERABAD: The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) has been selected by the United States Department of State to organise a conference focused on implementing India's COP21 commitments to be held here on June 24-25. The conference, 'Future Is Now: India from COP21 to Reality', would include international experts and practitioners, …
There are strong interdependencies between water use in agriculture and energy consumption as water saving technologies can require increased pumping and pressurizing. The Chinese Government includes water efficiency improvement and carbon intensity reduction targets in the 12th Five-Year Plan (5YP. 2011–2015), yet the links between energy use and irrigation modernization …
25 model buildings to be reference points The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation plans to popularise the Energy Conservation Building Code, beginning with 25 model buildings, both government and commercial, being made reference models for others. The code will apply to buildings constructed on 1,000 sq mt of land, with built-up …
Mangaluru: The Mangaluru City Corporation is on an energy saving mode. The council of the civic body at its last gener al meeting ratified an agenda to submit a proposal to the state gov ernment to seek funds under energy conservation schemes, especially its street lighting system. Under this, the …
Bhopal: Union minister for power, renewable energy and coal Piyush Goyal has exhorted people of Madhya Pradesh to utilize green energy in hospitals, schools and colleges. "Madhya Pradesh could be the first state to implement energy saving techniques with use of LED bulbs," said the Union minister while launching Centre's …
India is at a critical juncture in scaling renewable energy to provide energy access to its growing cities and vast rural communities. Financing remains the principal barrier to the rapid expansion of India’s clean energy market needed to meet the ambitious national target of 175 gigawatts (GW) of solar, wind …
India is at a critical juncture in scaling renewable energy to provide energy access to growing cities and vast rural communities. Financing is one of the principal barriers to the rapid expansion of India’s clean energy market needed to meet the ambitious national target of 175 gigawatts (GW) of solar, …
With buildings responsible for 32 percent of global energy consumption and a quarter of CO2 emissions, there is a huge, under-tapped opportunity to create more sustainable cities through building efficiency. More efficient buildings can generate economic benefits, reduce environmental impacts and improve people’s quality of life. Developed in partnership with …
Some work has been done on regulatory policies (such as energy-efficiency standards, including under the Clean Development Mechanism [CDM] and with an aim to reforming the CDM beyond a project-level scope) both from the methodological side and through blueprinting of operational models. Similar approaches were developed for policies such as …
With the awareness level increasing about the multifarious benefits of such projects, the demand is on an upswing JAIPUR: With about 3600 projects built over 3.59 billion sq ft, the country's green building footprint has emerged as the second largest in the world, and going by the trend in the …
Each household to get 3 bulbs of 9 watts each at Rs 25 against its cost of Rs 450; State to also replace 1.66 lakh street lights with LED bulbs PANJIM: Goa will be fully lit with LED lights as the Electricity Department is set to distribute 15 lakh LED …
More radical action is needed to decarbonize the world's energy supply and improve energy efficiency to keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius, the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) said on Wednesday. The ETC is made up of global experts from energy companies, the investment sector, public and …
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government's negligence in mobilising central funds for green energy push is affecting its ambitious projects, bringing to fore lapses by Urja Vikas Nigam (UVN) and the energy department, which recently lost a grant of Rs 194 crore for supplying solar pumps, LED lights and LED bulbs. While …
At COP21 in Paris, 195 countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2ºC and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5ºC. In advance, the participating countries submitted plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions – the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). Every five years these plans will be …
India is committed to cutting down carbon emission by 30-35 per cent and energy efficiency is vital to achieve the target, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said today. "Distribution of 10 crore LED bulbs is not only our achievement, but of the consumers as well. India has a clear vision to …
This paper describes the key energy transitions challenges that lie ahead and gives an overview of the Commission itself. It presents two main dimensions of energy transitions: economic development and climate change. It considers what it would take to achieve both ambitions, what makes this difficult, and what opportunities exist …
A Victorian technology company striving to produce more efficient and cheaper solar power has won financial backing from the national renewable energy agency to expand its plans. RayGen Resources, based in Melbourne, will receive a new $2.9 million government grant to help it commercialise what the company says is ground-breaking …
The present study report aims at recommending a smooth transformational action plan for the TN electricity sector to meet the hugely onerous electricity requirements by 2050 after a due diligence process involving: the analysis of state’s geographic and climatic conditions, and the natural resource base from the climate change perspective; …
