Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
To make Indian skies more environment friendly, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has for the first time come up with a detailed aviation carbon footprint report. The report states that Indian and foreign airlines in India account for less than one per cent of the country’s total carbon dioxide …
New Delhi: The face-off between the European Union (EU) and India over carbon tax on aviation could see a resolution, with a compromise formula likely to evolve at the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)’s meeting to be held in end-October. Under the proposed formula, an international market-based mechanism would …
India is among the countries opposed to an EU law that makes all airlines pay for carbon they emit on flights to and from Europe Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has urged Asia Pacific regulators to oppose measures like the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, calling it "unilateral". "We would request the …
Bhubaneswar: With the Centre assuring chief minister Naveen Patnaik to upgrade the city airport into an international airport, the Odisha government today issued direction to the civic and airport authorities to ensure that there was no bird menace in the aerodrome area. It has been decided to make airport buildings …
The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Saturday that would shield U.S. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on European flights, pressuring the European Union to back down from applying its emissions law to foreign carriers. The European Commission has been enforcing its law since January to make all …
China, the world's biggest carbon dioxide emitter, has struck a deal to work with the European Union to cut greenhouse gases through projects including the development of Chinese emissions trading schemes, the European Commission said on Thursday. The European Union and China have frequently clashed over climate policy and Beijing …
Two biggest cargo carriers affirm that they will not ship mammals and non-human primates, as activist pressure mounts to stop research-animal airlifts.
The U.S. aviation industry urged President Barack Obama on Monday to file a U.N. action to stop the EU from forcing foreign aircraft to pay for their carbon emissions ahead of a U.N. meeting that will try to make progress on a multilateral solution to the ongoing aviation row. Nineteen …
The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General is an essential instrument for enforcing the accountability of the executive to Parliament. It is wrong, as in the coal blocks and other recent cases, to cast aspersions on the CAG for pointing out the omissions and commissions of the government. The …
David Cameron yesterday reassured opponents to a third runway at Heathrow that he would honour his manifesto not to expand it before the end of the current parliament. However, amid increasing speculation that the Government is preparing for a controversial U-turn, it has emerged that a cross-party commission will be …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of the Performance Audit of implementation of Public Private Partnership Project by Airports Authority of India at Indira Gandhi International Airport Delhi. The Audit covered the period from 2006 to 2012.
Sixteen environmental groups on Friday urged President Barack Obama not to give into pressure by the U.S. airline industry to file an action under the U.N.'s aviation body to block an EU law requiring all foreign airlines to participate in its carbon trading system. In their letter to the White …
India has joined the US and 15 other major countries in opposing European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) which requires carriers flying to or from Europe to offset their carbon emissions. The two-day meeting hosted by the United States to chalk out a common strategy against the EU’s emission trading …
Washington India has joined the US and 15 other major countries in opposing the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which requires carriers flying to or from Europe to offset their carbon emissions. The two-day meeting hosted by the United States to chalk out a common strategy against the EU's …
US senators and about 20 countries met in Washington this week to oppose Europe's decision to charge airlines for their carbon emissions by including them in its emissions trading scheme (ETS). This "coalition of the unwilling" failed to agree on a joint declaration, but a US spokesman said: "The meeting …
A two-day meeting hosted the by US of 17 countries opposed to the EU's emissions trading system (ETS) has ended without a joint declaration. The countries, however, reaffirmed their ambition to keep working on an alternative framework to address greenhouse gas emissions under UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). They …
Opposes Emissions Trading Scheme, which requires carriers flying to or from Europe to offset their carbon emissions India has joint the US and 15 other major countries in opposing European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) which requires carriers flying to or from Europe to offset their carbon emissions. The two …
A number of habitats for endangered species, such as the golden eagle, mountain hawk eagle and ptarmigan, lie under the low-altitude routes planned for flights by the MV-22 Osprey, a Japanese environmental protection group said. Habitats for golden eagle, designated a protected species with an estimated population of 650, overlap …
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects India to lead global talks on the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), Tony Tyler, the organisation's director general, said on Wednesday, adding that he felt India was not "philosophically opposed" to the scheme. Two unidentified Indian airlines failed to meet a March …
