Diversification: CIL and its subsidiaries to use de-coaled land to build new thermal power plants
Given the country’s growing shift to renewable energy, the coal ministry has decided to foray into thermal power plants, and not just mine coal.
Lex: How investors are underpricing climate risks
The costs of inaction on global warming are potentially vast and often not sufficiently factored in to asset values
Climate: Consumers are seizing the energy transition from big business
Demand-side clean energy investment — equipment used by energy users, such as electric vehicles, heat pumps and sustainable materials — was running ahead of supply-side investments such as solar, wind, nuclear and battery power, hydrogen and carbon capture last year
Vision 2047: Natural habitats teeming with wildlife to cover half of India: K Ullas Karanth
‘An India with 50 percent of the land clothed in natural habitats and teeming with abundant native wildlife species and natural biodiversity, coexisting with a prosperous and harmonious human society’, is the vision of K. Ullas Karanth.
Robust and transformative adaptation measures can make our cities climate-resilient, say urban experts
Integrated urban planning where climate change adaptation is woven into urban development plans and not seen as an add-on should be the way ahead if we want our cities to be resilient by 2047.
Bullish on India | An air pollution-free India by 2047 is not a Utopian dream
Airshed-level planning where the fight against air pollution crosses state boundaries and urban-rural divides, strict enforcement of emission standards, switch to renewables, building green infrastructure could help to significantly improve air quality nationwide in the next 24 years to India@100.
Bullish on India | Tiger@2047: 'Amrit Kaal Ka Tiger Vision'
Tiger@2047 envisions the tiger as a mascot of livelihood, ecosystem well-being, and model for green investments.
Independence Day 2023 | Extinction of a ‘Great Indian’ by 2047? When the Great Indian Bustard lost out to the peacock as the national bird of India
The IUCN listed the Great Indian Bustard as endangered in 1994, but by 2011, it was Critically Endangered.
Power sector will play a big role in India’s $5 trillion economy goal: Tata Power CEO & MD
Considering that India is one of the fastest-growing economies and there is an aspirational India, which is expecting a lot of improvement in the quality of life, this is the decade of India, and maybe even the next few decades, said Praveer Sinha.
Will add 5 GW capacity, increase coal production by 47% in FY24: NTPC Head
NTPC has also decided not to go ahead with its plan a stake sale in NTPC Green Energy Limited (NGEL) through a strategic investor, said Gurdeep Singh
Bullish on India | How cheetahs could run the long distance to 2047 in India
Wildlife enthusiast Saad Bin Jung has a suggestion to improve the cheetahs' chances in India: "Let the villagers become the protectors and conservators of our immense and diverse eco-biospheres."
'A few more cheetah deaths may occur, but these should be isolated events', says vet who helped translocate the cheetahs from South Africa
"Despite the cheetahs deaths, India still offers a safer habitat for these animals than most places in Africa. If this project fails, there will be very few viable options for the conservation of cheetahs." - Dr Adrian S.W. Tordiffe
In Pics: Hawaii's Lahaina town devastated by wildfires
Images taken on August 11 show the extent of the damage in Lahaina, the Maui town that was entirely torched by a merciless wildfire.
Climate Change is wrecking the tourist havens
From Hawaii in the US to Himachal Pradesh in India, hopes of riding out climate change in tropical paradises or verdant hill landscapes are fast receding. The long arm of global heating will find you everywhere. Get cracking on flood-proofing infrastructure to updating water and fire management, and making homes and other buildings more resilient
No plan to phase out old coal-fired power plants: Power Minister RK Singh
Total power generated in India by at least 8 percent YoY in 2021-22, and 9 percent in 2022-23, the minister said. Singh further said that electricity generated by coal-based power plants grows by 10 percent between 2021-22 and 2022-23
How China cornered the market for clean tech
The country is the biggest supplier of materials vital for the energy transition. That could give it geopolitical leverage
As AI becomes more pervasive, its environmental impact is on the rise
Estimates show that without significant interventions, AI models could consume more energy than the entire human workforce by 2025, considerably impacting global carbon reduction goals
Amazon rainforest: Everything you need to know how and why it is diminishing
Environmentalists have long lobbied for so-called bioeconomy options for Amazonia's tens of millions of people, but investors have been skeptical
The olives in your local market may have been grown in J&K
As climate change makes it harder and less profitable to grow fruits and vegetables that were traditionally farmed in Kashmir, J&K farmers are also growing dates, olives, kiwi, dragon fruit, oranges, lemons now.
Bengal: Sagardighi power plant's Rs 28 crore water recycling project unveiled
Recognising the importance of preserving water as a valuable natural resource and aiming to achieve the goal of "Reduce – Reuse – Recycle," the Ash Water Recirculation & Recovery System project was undertaken by the corporation.
Reliance Foundation partners with INCOIS to launch campaign for promoting sustainable fisheries
Under the ‘Mega Awareness Campaign on Ocean Information and Advisory Services’ organised as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, in-depth interactions were held with over 200 coastal fishermen hailing from Maharashtra.
Govt temporarily eases mandate on biomass pellet co-firing in thermal power plants
The problem is that sufficient quantity of biomass pellet is not available in the country as of now, Union minister for power and renewable energy RK Singh said on August 4.
Net Zero: Not everyone in the UK wants to pay for it
Some of the most visible parts of the UK’s net zero strategy are placing obvious — and high — upfront bills directly in front of consumers. Hot water boilers require a significantly more expensive heat pump. A drive to a city centre, demands an upgrade to a low- or no-emission car — or pay a huge fine every time you get in the other kind. And few are willing to pay the price
China’s G-20 climate wrecking tactics threaten its global role
At a disastrous G-20 climate ministers’ meeting in Chennai, China’s negotiator reportedly teamed up with Saudi Arabia and refused to discuss a 2025 global emissions target. Retreating from its key role in the 2015 Paris Agreement and its 2020 commitment to net-zero emissions would be disastrous to the world’s climate trajectory and China’s global role
