The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Poultry litter produces methane gas and the gas is converted into electricity using a patented technology at a non-descript Tamil Nadu village SBEL Has Capacity To Produce 3.75mw Per Hour S Sujatha NAMAKKAL CHICKEN droppings, which do not get a second look even by most poultry farmers, are used in …
Almost six projects in Pakistan have been registered with the United Nation (UN) for controlling carbon emission. Around 16 more projects are under validation for registration with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a branch of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These would be registered projects include hydropower …
Vishwanath Kulkarni The recently introduced climate Bill in the US, which seeks to curb emissions by setting up a cap-and-trade mechanism, if passed, will strengthen the post-2012 carbon trade and could open up a new market for the Indian clean development mechanism (CDM) project developers. The American Power Act Bill …
Byju Aryad KOCHI: The distribution of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) by the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) will fetch the board profit through the sale of the carbon credits earned from the incandescent bulbs collected while distributing the CFLs. If the Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), or the carbon credits, are …
Chander Shekhar Sharma | Hamirpur Kisan sabha Kangra and residents of Palampur town of Himachal Pradesh have raised strong objections on the proposal by OM Power Project to claim Carbon Credits under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention
The number of carbon credits or certified emission reduction (CERs) issued for a cut in the release of greenhouse gases into the environment is set to triple in India over the next three years, due to a rising number of claims from rapidly growing renewable energy (RE) projects. According to …
The Centre has put in place an enabling legal, regulatory and policy framework to promote market-based energy efficiency in the country and the focus now is on implementing schemes aimed at reducing the energy intensity of the economy. Speaking at a national seminar organised by FICCI here on energy efficiency, …
POWER minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that about 74,000 mw of new generation capacity could be added during the Eleventh Plan period, betraying a lack of clarity in the government on this issue. The minister had earlier scaled down the capacity addition target to 62,000 mw from 78,577 mw due …
'Open source' is a familiar concept to many web users, providing free, well-supported software across the internet. But could the same principles be used to rapidly disseminate low-carbon technologies around the world?
The Copenhagen Climate Conference and its Copenhagen Accord have generally been regarded by the press as a failure. I think this is a very unfortunate mischaracterization. The conference was a failure only in not achieving binding commitments to reduce global greenhouse gas emission levels sufficient to meet the requirements identified …
Interests in obtaining carbon offsets in host countries for Clean Development Mechanism projects may serve as an obstacle to implementing more stringent general environmental policies in the same countries. A relatively lax environmental policy, whereby carbon emissions remain high, can be advantageous for such countries as it leaves them with …
This study explores ways to integrate industry in the process of designing and operationalising sectoral approaches to climate change according to a guideline that could be agreed in Canc
Carbon finance is now a proven tool to support greenhouse gas mitigation. Market mechanisms, such as the CDM for greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation projects hosted in developing countries, and JI for projects located in economies in transition, have demonstrated that they can complement and leverage other resources to unlock low …
The World Bank released its annual State and Trends of the Carbon Market report at Carbon Expo in Cologne, Germany, on 26 May. The report indicates that the value of the global carbon market grew six percent, to US$144 billion, in 2009 despite being its most challenging year to date. …
Rapid and alarming deterioration in natural environment has become a matter of great concern for the entire globe. Exploding population, industrialization, man-made pollution, loss of forests, etc are responsible for this disastrous ecological scenario. Carbon dioxide emissions are at historic highs and rising. Bamboo is emerged as a way out …
A large percentage of world’s population continues to depend on biomass for their cooking needs. The cooking devices used by majority of them have very poor thermal efficiency and serious health impacts due to unclean combustion. While past few decades have seen a lot of interest the world over in …
Mumbai: ITC Hotels has set a precedence by possibly becoming the first hospitality chain in the world to have earned carbon credits. Its luxury property, ITC Sonar in Kolkata, which switched to energy efficient CFL bulbs as part of its energy saving drive, has been issued 1,996 carbon credits per …
This article synthesises the pledges made by both industrialised and developing countries, following the Copenhagen Accord, and their implications for stabilising the earth
