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 green technology is gaining ground in Bangladesh, as several sectors are adopting the innovations, thanks to growing campaigns against carbon emissions, the lead contributor to global warming. The idea behind green technology encompasses evolving new methods and techniques to generate energy for production of non-toxic products. The concept -- …
A group of small U.S. manufacturers and trade associations is endorsing a bill it says will boost the number of green manufacturing jobs in industries like wind and solar power in the United States. The Apollo Alliance, a California-based coalition of labor, business and environmental groups, said the companies support …
Bangladesh's central bank has launched a 2 billion taka ($29 million) refinance scheme for renewable energy in an effort to help ease power and gas crisis and reduce pollution. A maximum 100 percent refinance facilities will be provided to the commercial banks against their lending to solar projects, bio-gas plants …
MASEEH RAHMAN India has decided to push ahead with an ambitious plan to generate clean electricity through the power of the sun - and, after a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, it wants rich nations to pay the bill. Although the country has virtually no solar power …
A government plan for greenhouse gas reduction by 2020 would push down Japan's economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and raise unemployment by 0.2 percentage points in 2020, a government panel report showed on Wednesday. Japan, the world's fifth-biggest greenhouse gas emitter, set in June its 2020 climate target, which …
A new report from the Electric Power Research Institute noted that in order to meet climate goals, the U.S. power industry must implement a full portfolio of technologies. While we agree that we'll have to pull out all the stops in the race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we must …
India's prime minister Manmohan Singh has approved a US$19 billion plan to make the country a global leader in solar energy over the next three decades. The ambitious project would see a massive expansion in installed solar capacity, and aims to reduce the price of electricity generated from solar energy …
BV Mahalakshmi, Rajiv Tikoo New Delhi: Looking forward to replicate the success of IT industry, solar industry leaders have lauded the in-principle approval to the National Solar Plan. Targeting a 20,000-mw generation in the first phase by 2020, the plan was approved by the Prime Minister
The fate of U.S. climate control legislation is in the hands of the Senate, where it faces an uphill climb. Democratic leaders hope to put it to a vote in October. The House of Representatives narrowly passed its version of a bill to mandate reductions in industrial emissions of carbon …
- Hut where all appliances run on renewable energy to be unveiled soon; pool, toy train on cards ARTI SAHULIYAR Construction work in progress at Sidho-Kanho Park in Ranchi. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, Aug. 3: Picture a house where all electric appliances run without electricity. It is time to …
With 2020 As Target, PM Okays It In-Principle New Delhi: In a step forward, the Solar Mission under the National Action Plan on Climate Change got an inprinciple nod from the PM with an ambitious target of 20,000MW solar power by 2020 being accepted. In a meeting that lasted over …
As international pressure mounts on India to undertake greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, the government on Monday reviewed the progress on its internal strategy to deal with climate change and discussed the feasibility of an ambitious programme to harness solar energy. The Prime Minister
MUKESH RANJAN The government on Monday approved the country's "solar mission", which envisages augmentation of 20,000 MW power by 2020. The decision to this effect was taken at the meeting of the PM's Council on Climate Change headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday evening. The "solar mission" is …
The draft of India’s ambitious National Solar Mission plan under the National Action Plan on Climate Change approved by the Prime Minister of India on 3rd Aug 09. The plan has an ambitious target of generating 20,000 MW solar power by 2020 and this mission document describes the mission strategy …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: With the worldwide focus on climate change and exploring renewable energy sources to meet the emerging power needs, the Central Government is all set to unveil a mega solar power capacity addition plan to make India the global leader in solar energy. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh …
Building-integrated photovoltaic solutions are still significantly more expensive than traditional on-roof systems, comprising a niche market. But manufacturers are increasingly offering solar modules for facades and in-roof systems. Are we on the threshold of a major new market?
