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China in carbon trading experiment
Jun 18, 2013 at 07:47 | Source: BBC
China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is to launch its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in Shenzhen. The test scheme, which will be rolled out to seven areas by 2014, could be spread across the country after 2015. Beijing is a...
Can China achieve success with carbon trading scheme?
Jun 18, 2013 at 07:47 | Source: BBC
Over the past few years China has earned itself quite a few crowns in the world's-biggest category. It has become the world's biggest internet market, largest car market, biggest exporter... the list goes on and on. While Beijing takes a lo...
CDM Smith to carry out carbon emissions survey on Kochi Metro
Jun 17, 2013 at 16:25 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Kochi, June 17: Kochi Metro Rail Ltd has assigned CDM Smith, an international agency, to carry out detailed survey on reduction of carbon emissions along the metro alignment from 2018 to 2048. The study will give an idea about probable reduction in ...
Kochi Metro ropes in CDM Smith for carbon emissions survey
Jun 17, 2013 at 13:57 | Source: FirstPost
Kochi: Kochi Metro Rail Ltd has assigned CDM Smith, an international agency, to carry out detailed survey on reduction of carbon emissions along the metro alignment from 2018 to 2048.The study will give an idea about probable reduction in cars, scoot...
Russia challenges consensus rule at heart of U.N. climate talks
Jun 15, 2013 at 05:15 | Source: FirstPost
BONN, Germany, June 14 - It was a historic moment in U.N. climate talks: with most countries in favour and only a group of OPEC members objecting, the German environment minister chairing the conference banged down her gavel to launch negotiations on...
April-May commodity futures turnover up 4.7 pct
Jun 11, 2013 at 01:15 | Source: FirstPost
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Commodity futures turnover in India rose 4.7 percent to 28.16 trillion rupees in April and May, hit by a fall in agricultural futures.India has 21 commodity bourses, including six operating at the national level. Foreigners are sti...
India's clean energy at the cost of biodiversity?
Jun 05, 2013 at 09:01 | Source: FirstPost
Of India's more than two lakh megawatt power capacity, only 12.2 percent is generated from renewable sources. If you add hydro power to this, the ratio goes up to 30.81 percent, according to the ministry of power.After the launch of the National Sola...
May 28, 2013 at 16:06 | Source: Business Today
Rupinder Singh Arora, Chairman, Arora Fibres, sitting at his office in Silvassa Photo: Rachit Goswami/www.indiatodayimages.com More and more companies are making wealth from waste and, in the process, saving the environment from devastation. Busines...
Mobile app to check green cook stoves
May 19, 2013 at 09:32 | Source: DNA India
Researchers have invented a mobile application to encourage the use of clean technology. SootSwap monitors and incentivises the use of clean cooking technologies by measuring the reduction in carbon emissions from using cook stoves. Over three years...
TERI develops new cookstove to reduce carbon footprint
May 19, 2013 at 04:17 | Source: Economic Times
KOLKATA: Qualcomm Incorporated, through Qualcomm Wireless Reach, Nexleaf Analytics, in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute New Delhi (TERI), Project Surya and the UK Department for International Development (DFID), announced that t...
SootSwap: An app to monitor adoption of clean cooking technologies
May 17, 2013 at 20:20 | Source: Business Today
The SootSwap app being tested in a village Qualcomm in collaboration with Nexleaf, TERI, Project Survya and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) has produced a mobile application called SootSwap, to monitor and incentivise the use ...
ONGC registers Tripura power unit as CDM project
May 15, 2013 at 04:47 | Source: Economic Times
NEW DELHI: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) today said it has registered its Tripura power unit as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under the Kyoto Protoco...
ONGC registers Tripura project under CDM
May 14, 2013 at 18:12 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
New Delhi, May 14: ONGC on Tuesday said it has registered the OTPC power project of its ONGC Tripura Power Corporation Ltd (OTPC) as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC...
Abdul Kalam calls Delhi Metro as one of world's best transportation systems
Mar 25, 2013 at 23:16 | Source: Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam today had his maiden ride on the Delhi Metro train and was effusive about Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for creating a 'culture of excellence'. Kalam boarded the train at Central Secretariat station and tr...
Mar 22, 2013 at 14:31 | Source: Business Today
Kunal Singh worked with human resources consultancy Aon Hewitt for two years before he decided to go green. The 25-year-old joined a master's programme in economics with a special focus on environment at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Uni...
Mar 07, 2013 at 23:21 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
If it hadn't been for the diesel generators powering telecom towers, the July 2012 blackout, the largest power outage in history would have had a more profound impact on 620 million Indians. While half of India's population did not have power, they ...
Tata Power can now trade carbon credits earned from Guj plant
Feb 01, 2013 at 14:17 | Source: Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Tata Power today said its 25 MW solar project in Gujarat has been registered under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism, a move that would allow the company to trade carbon credits from the plant. "This allows the company to tra...
Tata Power can now trade carbon credits earned from Gujarat plant
Jan 31, 2013 at 18:27 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
New Delhi, Jan 31: Tata Power today said its 25 MW solar project in Gujarat has been registered under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism, a move that would allow the company to trade carbon credits from the plant. “This allows the ...
Organic coffee fetches good returns for Girijans
Jan 30, 2013 at 00:07 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Visakhapatnam, Jan. 29: Coffee cultivation has become a steady source of income for Girijans in the agency (tribal) area of Visakhapatnam district in the eastern ghats for the past few years, as farmers have taken up organic cultivation of coffee wi...
Girijan coffee co-op bags Citibank prize
Jan 28, 2013 at 22:56 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Visakhapatnam, Jan. 28: The Girijans of Paderu in Visakhapatnam agency (tribal) area in the eastern ghats have won the Citibank Community Enterprise of the Year award for sustainable commercial cultivation of coffee. The Small and Marginal Tribal Fa...
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