Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
The Low-Carbon Growth Policy Tracker for Indian states has been developed by WWF- India with technical inputs from Ernst & Young LLP. It assesses low-carbon policies across states in the country, evaluates their effectiveness in reducing GHG emissions across all major sectors and encourages new policies promoting overall low-carbon transformation …
The Union Urban Development Ministry has submitted before the Standing Committee on Urban Development that a waste-to-energy plant being set up by the Delhi Power Department through the East Delhi Waste Processing Co. Ltd (EDWPCL) at the Ghazipur landfill site is now in an advanced stage of completion and the …
An undulation of hills rise along the eastern fringe of Delhi, towering above the surrounding flat land, and giving a cluster of apartment buildings in the distance a run for their height. They’re easily mistaken for an extension of the Aravalli range that skirts the city — until a putrefying …
An undulation of hills rise along the eastern fringe of Delhi, towering above the surrounding flat land, and giving a cluster of apartment buildings in the distance a run for their height. They’re easily mistaken for an extension of the Aravalli range that skirts the city — until a putrefying …
Discrepancies In Chalai Project Prompts Govt Decision The apparent failure of Suchitwa Mission and the transaction advisor in warding off discrepancies from the proposed gasification plant at Chalai has now prompted the state government to seek the technical expertise and guidance of planning commission in implementing similar projects in future. …
Administrative sanction given to the Rs. 90 lakh-project The State government has allotted Rs. 90 lakh for putting up a bio-gas plant for producing 440 KW power using solid wastes generated by the Thanjavur municipality. Welcoming the move, people of Thanjavur said that it would achieve two objectives. It would …
Members of the Russell Market Traders’ Association and traders will get a waste-to-energy plant installed at the market by next week. The market, which houses around 480 shops, produces nearly 12-15 tonnes of garbage daily, out of which seven tonnes are wet waste alone. To minimise the waste and use …
Thames Water and 2OC in deal worth £200m over 20 years to turn 'fatbergs' clogging capital's sewers into energy for sewage works and homes Cooking waste from thousands of London restaurants and food companies is to help run what is claimed to be the world's biggest fat-fuelled power station. The …
New Delhi: A new technology for recovering landfill gas may reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions from landfills by a great extent. If commercialized, the gas recovered can be used for cooking, heating, electricity generation and even transportation. The technology has been introduced in a pilot project at the Okhla landfill. …
This Alternative Renewable Energy Policy aims to promote the following clean RE technologies: solar (both PV and thermal), wind, bio-energy, geo-thermal, pico/micro/mini/small hydro and waste to energy (WTE). This Policy shall cover, inter alia, the following areas of RE interventions: Stand-alone systems, Decentralized Distributed Generation (DDG) systems, Grid-connected RE systems, …
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has planned another waste-to-energy plant in Shastri Park. The land allotment by the Delhi Development Authority for the project is under process. EDMC Commissioner Sajjan Singh Yadav said: “Initially we had requested for land to be allotted to us but were told there is …
A solution to the vexed problem of solid waste management in the city seems distant as the government continues to be in the dark on the technology to be adopted at the proposed new plant in Brahmapuram. Efforts to initiate a waste-to-energy plant based on incineration method have backfired after …
There's a wizened figure hunched over a chulha in rural Uttar Pradesh. She stokes the fiery coals, coughs intermittently, and her eyes stream with the exertion of cooking over coal night after night. The same image is replicated across most parts of India with minor alterations. According to a 2012 …
With the aim to capture and purify the landfill gas being emitted uncontrolled from the Okhla landfill site by use of indigenous technology, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), in association with Jamia Millia Islamia, launched a report on Thursday that demonstrates how captured landfill gas (LFG) can be used …
It was announced in Corporation Budget The Coimbatore Corporation Council on Monday accorded approval for the waste-to-energy project. At the urgent meeting, the Council decided to implement the project, which will use 500 metric tonnes waste a day to generate power. The Council approving of the project comes days after …
Civil society representatives from South Asian countries here on Monday adopted a charter of demands, pressing the governments in the region to improve sanitation services for the entire population of their respective countries, especially for the marginalised and the women. Citizens from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka …
Sri Lanka could slash its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 19 percent of projected levels in 2020 at little or no long-term cost using an array of green power options, a new study from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) showed. “Sri Lanka has the potential to avoid emissions of over …
Sri Lanka could slash its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 19% of projected levels in 2020 at little or no long-term cost using an array of green power options, says a new study from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). "Sri Lanka has the potential to avoid emissions of over 5.6 …
The waste generation in City has come down from 4,000 tonnes a day to 3,600 tonnes thanks to hoteliers who are disposing the waste themselves. The BBMP took everyone by surprise when it submitted before the Karnataka High Court that the waste generation was 3,600 tonnes a day. Earlier, it …
Bengaluru: There seems to be no respite from the garbage crisis for citizens of Bengaluru as well as villagers of Mandur as city in-charge minister R. Ashok and Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar have so far not been able to come up with effective alternative steps. The BBMP Commissioner, Siddaiah, has …
