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With the need to cut GHG emissions in the wake of climate crisis, REDD has manifested as a potential breather as well as an economically lucrative option. However, post Copenhagen and the developing vs. developed nation debate, the outcome of the mechanism is yet to unfold.
With National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE), India has embarked on an ambitious plan to cut its energy consumption by 5% by 2015. If it delivers, the plan would also prevent 100 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from being emitted in the atmosphere, showing India’s commitment to...
Manu Sharma, an activist and renewable energy expert writes about the targets commited by India in the Copenhagen Accord and what it would mean for the Indian public.
Nirma University in Ahmedabad celebrated India’s first ever zero carbon footprint event, an International Environment Summit, Chemozale’10 in a new avatar – “Go green or Die Young!!!”
The vagaries of environment and silent uproar of the changing climate endorsed by innumerable climate...
Through the National Solar Mission, India plans on installing 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022. The project is ambitious, but has potential to change India’s current energy model, to one that is cheap, clean and accessible to all.
Post-Copenhagen, there is an increasing fear that it will...
The electric vehicle is about saving real lives long before being about energy independence or slowing down global warming. The clean electric drive revolution has now reached the point of no return.
Ever since motorization began, vehicles driven by an internal combustion engine using...
Bulu Imam, a prominent environmental activist writes about the futility of coal based power generation and the need and scope of renewable energy as a clean source of power in India.
Dirty power pays. It is lucrative. But it is destroying the future of the planet through increasing the...
In February, 745,989 CERs (approx US$11.3m) were issued to projects in India which came from 7 projects, 6 new projects were registered and 99 new projects were submitted for prior consideration.
The newer submitters clearly seems to be of the view that the European ETS market...
Where to account for emissions of exported products - the producer (developing nations) or consumer (developed nations)? The recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has refueled this debate about GHG inventorization.
Where to account for...
Even if the world could instantly switch over to an alternative energy source to minimize global warming, it wouldn’t be obvious which ones fit the bill. We examine the principles that could help make the choice.
Some sources release little CO2 but produce other greenhouse gases whose...
Rs 400 crores ($85 million) flowed into India in 2009 through CDM projects, but India's share of the global CDM pie fell from 28% in 2008 to 16% in 2009.
In 2009 India had 4.9 million CERs issued valued at Rs 400 crores (it was 2.8 million CERs in 2008) as compared to the...
Biofuels are getting a bad reputation. People are doing the math and realizing that replacing fossil fuels with crop-based biofuels would take all the arable land on the planet.[1] Using algae instead, may be key to biofuels becoming an eco-sound alternative.[2]
Crop based...
Intense competition is forcing Indian PSUs to look at measures to cut costs, reduce energy wastages, improve operational efficiencies. Environment-friendly measures help achieve these objectives and improve both margins and goodwill.
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The CDP India Report highlights actions of top Indian companies in reducing emissions as well as adapting to the direct impacts of climate change.
It also identifies the preparedness of the Indian...
Captains of corporate India seems to be on board for pushing the low-carbon agenda. We've summarized some indicators from across sectors.
Is this an harbinger for the rest of the industry?
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