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 …
A ‘Sustainable Energy for All’ hub for Asia and Pacific was launched on Wednesday aimed at mobilising investment and finding innovative ways to bring clean, modern energy to people in the region. With the creation of the hub, the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) was formally …
The European Union needs an ambitious emissions-reduction goal, targets for energy-efficiency and renewables as well as tools to foster investment under its planned 2030 policies, an advisory panel to 14 ministers said. EU leaders need to agree on the framework for the next decade by October, sticking to the deadline …
Environmental Technology Verification (ETV), a new scheme to promote innovative green technologies, has been launched in the UK by the European Commission. Announced in London yesterday (17 June) by Defra's Dan Rogerson, the voluntary scheme aims to increase the uptake of green technologies and help overcome a lack of confidence …
European Union negotiations this week on planned energy and climate policies will focus on ways to share the burden of carbon reductions after 2020, according to an EU document prepared for the talks. In the series of bilateral discussions, the bloc’s senior officials and representatives of EU heads of state …
Three high-level committees, private consultancy giving shape to it The Puducherry landscape might soon be dotted with solar-powered households, government buildings and public lighting under a plan to make this grid-lined former French enclave a ‘solar city.’ The ‘solar city’ initiative, spearheaded by the Renewable Energy Agency of Puducherry (REAP) …
The energy sector is facing increasing pressures from climate change. All segments of the industry will be affected by the changing global climate and the policy responses to it. So says a briefing published jointly by the World Energy Council (WEC), the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), …
China and the United States signed a package of agreements on energy efficiency projects here on Wednesday, a move expected to deepen energy cooperation between the world's two largest economies. The deals include a program of distributed energy to be piloted in a 20-square-km international tourism resort zone in Shanghai, …
The government, which in 2010 spent Tk 150 crore on energy-saving CFL (Compact fluorescent lamp) bulbs, has now decided to shift its focus on LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs to reduce power consumption for lighting. The state minister for power, energy and mineral resources, Nasrul Hamid, on Tuesday said that the …
Europe-backed finance for carbon capture and storage may help seal a European Union climate-protection deal by October, according to Ed Davey, the U.K. energy and climate secretary of state. “There would have to be an EU-wide solution to supporting new CCS in Poland or anywhere else as part of a …
Indonesia's Borneo island shows the clearing of trees on a peatland forest located in Central Kalimantan in February. The area is being developed for a palm oil plantation. These must be rough days for climate change fatalists. Solar and wind power costs have plunged. Companies compete for climate bragging rights. …
BEIJING - While China fell behind its energy saving targets from 2011 to 2013, tough measures will be taken to conserve energy, an official said Monday. Xie Zhenhua, vice minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner, said at a forum that work …
The Tamil Nadu government has installed around 90,000 green houses with solar roof and around 20,000 street lights through solar power since 2011. While plans were to add 60,000 solar roof houses and 20,000 street lights through solar power every year, the initial procedures and other issues affected the schedule, …
Governments need to re-evaluate existing approaches to environmental norms while improving on delivery of services under existing laws to improve sustainable and inclusive governance, urged the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a not-for-profit organisation and think-tank. Releasing its ‘Environment and Development Agenda’ for the new government, the organisation proposed …
With the world celebrating environment day, India on Thursday pledged to take conservation efforts to higher level by proactively involving itself in global arena to save the "mother earth" and sought people's participation in bigger way to achieve this. It also said the country would provide a "new vocabulary to …
Increasing use of solar energy to protect environment and address the growing need for power across the country was stressed at a green summit here Thursday. "It is time to use renewable energy like solar and wind for generating more power than depending on thermal and hydel energy, which impact …
The European Union's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 19.2% compared to 1990s levels, according to the European Environment Agency. EU emissions dropped 1.3% in 2012, reaching their lowest level ever recorded, according to data reported to the United Nations by the EEA. The bloc's greenhouse gas output decreased by …
Puneites Keen On Saving Energy, Banning Plastic Gadgil Talks About Western Ghats That Protect Rare Species The Nyati Environ Cooperative Housing Society in Tingrenagar has managed to reduce its monthly electricity bill by half, simply by tweaking its power plans and adopting a greener behaviour. Installation of an energy-efficient sewage …
The US on Monday said it that will cut carbon emissions from existing power plants by 30% by 2030, the most ambitious plan yet on climate change by the Obama administration to reduce the largest source of carbon pollution in the world’s largest economy. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) …
The Obama administration's historic plan to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants, unveiled Monday, could hasten the nation's shift from coal toward natural gas, energy efficiency and renewable sources such as wind and solar. The controversial proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency calls for a 30% national cut in …
Global investment in fossil-fuel energy continues to outpace new spending on renewable sources, leaving the world on track for temperature increases of at least 3.6 degrees, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Last year, more than $1.1 trillion (A$1.19 trillion) was poured into the extraction, transport …
