India has ambitious energy transition targets to push for large scale adoption of clean energy..

Damodar river is the lifeline of millions of people in Jharkhand and West Bengal. However, it is getting contaminated due to industrial discharge and urban sewage..

For ensuring the energy security of India, over the last year, the government of India has taken a series of measures to increase the domestic production of coal and stop imports, despite objections and pressure from the environmental groups..

The idea behind the latest rules seems to be part of the central government’s measures to encourage large-scale energy consumers, including industries, to source all their power from renewable energy sources..

At least 30 percent of land and marine species should also be protected through conservation areas, the draft proposed..

India has also had a paradigm transition since the Paris Agreement. In the pre-Paris Agreement scenario, India did not have emission reduction targets..

Carbon capture and storage such as the direct removal by sequestering through plantations and bioenergy and carbon capture and storage (BECC) technologies are discussed in the report to remediate the carbon dioxide and methane emissions that were primarily spewed out in the blowout..

Over the past four years and consecutive reports, the overall score of India has remained almost the same..

While there had been expectations of an increase in consumption of medical plastics due to the pandemic, medical plastics only accounted for 1.5-2.0 percent of total volumes, Quenet noted..

Traditional solar panels weigh up to 25 kilos and generate vast quantities of heat, which limits the number of structures and buildings, able to accommodate them..

The pollution is not only impacting the health of the people but is also affecting the livelihoods of the people..

Officials have not yet decided if motorcycles or tourist buses will be allowed inside a zone that encompasses landmarks such as Notre-Dame cathedral and the Louvre museum..

The lender will also no longer fund 'any coal mining, oil and natural gas field exploration, drilling or extraction activities', it said..

Though connections were provided by the centre through several schemes there is debate over whether people are able to use them due to their unaffordability..

Newsom also instructed the state's clean air agency to investigate 'pathways' to phase out oil extraction by 2045..