The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Aiming to drastically cut its emissions of planet-warming pollutants, Britain is telling its home builders to design a new generation of super-efficient houses that use only clean power and add no net carbon to the atmosphere. Its rules will mandate that all new homes be zero-carbon by 2016, one of …
RBI bags certificates for its energy efficient buildings government and private organizations are queuing up for five star ratings for their office buildings from the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (bee). The Bureau rates buildings on a scale of one to five depending on how efficiently they use energy. The scheme …
Bengaluru needs a little political will and a lot of community-level initiatives Many years ago, weather used to be the icebreaker in conversations in Bengaluru. Traffic and its interminable snarls is the only subject every Bengalurean or visitor to the city talks of now. There are 3.5 million vehicles in …
The green movement has something of an image problem in that the sheen of luxury clings to so much of it, with Whole Foods, hybrid cars and organic silk sweaters pricing themselves out of the lives of most consumers. If you want to find a market that really hates energy …
A New Delhi-based developer, 3C, has announced two green residential projects in Noida this year at a budget of Rs 2,600 crore. Siddha Group, a Kolkata-based realtor, is developing a green housing complex, Xanadu, in Kolkata. In Mumbai, Mahindra Lifespaces is developing a green project Mahindra Splendour in Bhandup. At …
Advertisements talking about green community villages and sustainable construction keep popping out from every magazine, newspaper, hoarding and television, but giving form to the idea depends on the executioner. Brad Baker of Codding Enterprises is one such man who has gone out of his way to ensure he delivers what …
Green hotels, an emerging concept in tourism and hospitality industry, may have a higher installation cost but in the long term they bring down operating costs to a great extent. This view was expressed by Prof Russell Arthur Smith from Singapore in his keynote address at the inaugural session of …
The Empire State Building is going "green" in a model project that will save about US$4.4 million a year on energy. Completed in 1931, the Art Deco building immortalised in the film "King Kong" has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders …
CHENNAI: Electricals and consumer appliances major Bajaj Electricals inaugurated its first green office in Chennai on Saturday. Later addressing presspersons, Shekhar Bajaj, Chairman and Managing Director, said the office had lighting controls from Helvar of the U.K. that come with a multi-sensor that detects the presence of people around and …
Based on extensive research conducted over the past four years, the Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project has developed recommendations and an actionable roadmap to transform the building sector. The project began with a comprehensive inventory of current and future building stock and modeled the impacts of consumer preferences and …
Despite the severity of the current financial and economic crisis, it cannot be allowed to distract us from addressing critical and strategic climate change and energy challenges. The energy sector produces 60% of global greenhouse gas emissions and so it must also be a key part of any strategy to …
Insurers have more incentives than any other industry to catalyze global action on climate change.This latest Ceres report outlines the insurance industry
India's first integrated solar housing project is complete. This is a milestone and trendsetter in present times as it revolves around a concern for extending the life span of natural resources while at the same time providing human comfort, safety and productivity Amid the depleting wilderness of an upcoming township …
India can become a global leader in climate char constructs only green buildings, says architect Robin David | TNN Here is a number that a world heating up like a tandoor because of cli mate change can ill afford - Buildings consume nearly 50 per cent of all energy globally …
The story of a family in United States of America tracking their personal emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). They wanted to see how much they could cut back, so they put themselves on a strict diet. The average U.S. household produces about 150 pounds of CO2 a day by doing …
