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 …
The Centre had laid down 33 conditions while granting the approval and documents show that the Maharashtra government is yet to fulfill some of the crucial ones, even as a proposal for the final recommendations is due. Three years after the Maharashtra government was granted a principal approval to utilise …
Adding to its solar energy generation capacity, Mumbai International Airport Ltd. (MIAL) has announced the commissioning of additional solar power of 410 kWp inside the airport premises. The solar panels, spread across five locations at the T2 and Cargo terminals, have been positioned on rooftops for optimum utilisation of space. …
With no defined airport zone, and sound barriers on tracks too expensive to install, there is no escaping high decibels The ministry of civil aviation's move to boost regional connectivity by allowing airlines to import aircraft as old as 18 years may not be good news for people living near …
The zero-fuel aeroplane, Solar Impulse, has landed in the southern Spanish city of Seville to complete its historic Atlantic crossing. Pilot Bertrand Piccard made swift progress over the ocean after leaving New York on Monday. The flight was the 15th stage in Solar Impulse's bid to circumnavigate the globe. Mission …
Lightning is one of the major threats to multimegawatt wind turbines and a concern for modern aircraft due to the use of lightweight composite materials. Both wind turbines and aircraft can initiate lightning, and very favorable conditions for lightning initiation occur in winter thunderstorms. Moreover, winter thunderstorms are characterized by …
Nisha Agnihotri, resident architect for New Delhi-based architect firm Creative Group, said, "Right from the stage when the site was being prepared for construction to the completion stage, all GRIHA norms like cutting trees, planting new trees, recycling debris, using green rated materials, building design orientation according to climate have …
International aviation produced an estimated 490.4 million tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide emissions in 2013, about 1.5% of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion that year, and as the role of aviation in the global economy expands, those emissions are expected to rise, to 682–755 Mt by 2020 and …
MMB plans to use state’s 720km coastline to generate green power In the first such model in India, the Maharashtra government is planning to meet operational requirements of its minor ports and jetties using power generated from sea waves and solar and wind energy. This green energy thrust will be …
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is teaming up with Siemens to introduce a range of hybrid passenger planes, while rival Boeing has partnered with NASA to reduce emissions through lighter wing designs. Airbus’s chief executive officer Tom Enders said: "We believe that by 2030 passenger aircraft below 100 seats could be propelled …
Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday to press for faster action in setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. aircraft. Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth filed the lawsuit to force the agency to complete its "endangerment …
The BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - are opposed to any move of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) on carbon emission tax on airlines in the garb of offsetting emission in the aviation sector as they believe it would impose inappropriate economic burden on developing …
Why is night curfew not implemented for flights to and from airports across the country, the National Green Tribunal asked today as it directed aviation regulator DGCA to provide data on flights landing at the IGI Airport here at night. Taking the government to task over lack of norms on …
A deal this fall to cap carbon emissions from global aviation at 2020 levels must be enforceable and set long-term goals in line with the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said on Monday. Aviation was excluded from the landmark climate accord in Paris in …
Oslo: Flights from Europe to North America will take slightly longer and nudge up airline fuel costs if climate change strengthens high altitude winds as widely expected, a study said on Wednesday. The headwind into a stronger jet stream should lengthen westbound flights by about five minutes, slightly more than …
Aircraft do not fly through a vacuum, but through an atmosphere whose meteorological characteristics are changing because of global warming. The impacts of aviation on climate change have long been recognised, but the impacts of climate change on aviation have only recently begun to emerge. These impacts include intensified turbulence …
Global warming is likely to speed up the jet stream, say researchers, and slow down airplanes heading for the US. While eastbound flights from the US will be quicker, roundtrip journeys will "significantly lengthen". The University of Reading scientists believe the changes will increase carbon emissions and fuel consumption and …
Swarms of mosquitoes around Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in the city have raised concern among the health officials. A chance bite of the Aedes mosquito of a Zika virus infected international traveller can trigger infection. The state health department is conducting an entomological surveillance to keep the mosquito density in …
Global aviation experts agreed on Monday to the world’s first carbon dioxide emissions standards for new and existing aircraft programs, in a deal that environmental groups said does not go far enough. The new standards, aimed at makers of small and large planes alike, will apply to all new aircraft …
On 8 February 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) finalized a proposed performance standard for new aircraft that will mandate improvements in fuel efficiency and reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The standard, the first ever to impose binding energy efficiency and CO2 reduction targets for the aviation sector, …
An eagerly awaited aircraft CO2 emissions standard made further and important headway today at the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The new environmental measure was unanimously recommended by the 170 international experts on ICAO’s Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP), paving the way for its ultimate adoption by the …
