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Girnar Food to cut use of plant protection chemicals fullyBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 12, 2014
Mumbai-based Girnar Food and Beverages will reduce its usage of plant protection chemicals totally by 2020. This is part of recent initiatives taken by firms producing and marketing tea. Firms such as Hindustan Unilever and Tata Global Beverages have initiated plans to... Read more.. |
Deep emissions cuts needed by 2050 to limit warming - U.N. draftBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 8, 2014
Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 percent by mid-century will be needed to avert the worst of global warming that is already harming all continents, a draft U.N. report showed. The 26-page draft, obtained by Reuters on Thursday, sums up three U.N.... Read more.. |
Building smart cities without energyBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 8, 2014
Recent statements by Ministers from the National Democratic Alliance, when read together, provide insights into the government’s acche din promise. Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu promised to create a hundred smart cities with better facilities, connectivity and... Read more.. |
OpenADR Alliance, ISGF partner on India's smart gridBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 7, 2014
The OpenADR Alliance and the India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) have formed a public private partnership to accelerate the development of smart grid technologies in the Indian power sector. The two organizations will work together to facilitate the adoption... Read more.. Subject Tags: Social Issues , Technology |
100 % sewage treatment under ambitious anti-pollution program for the YamunaBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 5, 2014
With Delhi categorised as the most polluted city by a UN body, the city government on Friday embarked on an ambitious programme to clean its air and water which includes 100 per cent treatment of sewage and industrial effluents, that contaminate Yamuna river, within three... Read more.. Subject Tags: Social Issues |
'India is fifth largest producer of wind energy'By : Sustainability ..., Aug 1, 2014
India is the fifth largest producer of wind energy with the sector alone constituting 68 per cent of the total renewable energy produced in the country, India's ambassador to the UAE T P Seetharam has said. Annual growth rate of renewable energy in India in the last... Read more.. |
Indo-US group to work very closely on climate change: JavadekarBy : Sustainability ..., Jul 31, 2014
Terming the Indo-US Joint Working Group as an "important platform" for addressing environment and sustainable development concerns, Environment minister Prakash Javadekar Wednesday said the group needs to work "very closely" and develop common understanding and balanced... Read more.. |
The world's e-waste funneled to just a few developing countriesBy : Sustainability ..., Jul 31, 2014
A NEW report shows that the international flow of electronic waste disproportionately affects just a handful of developing countries. The report, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology, found that nearly a quarter of e-waste from developed... Read more.. |
India and Russia hold major consultation to set up 22 nuclear power projects in IndiaBy : Sustainability ..., Jul 30, 2014
India and Russia held major consultation in the realm of nuclear research away from the public eye ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Brazil in July. Nuclear energy was a key element at Modi-Putin talks. Both countries are... Read more.. |
A village in India now runs entirely on its own solar power gridBy : Sustainability ..., Jul 30, 2014
On Sunday, the eldest resident of Dharnai, India, flipped a switch and the village officially joined the age of electricity. But Dharnai, in India's northeastern Bihar state, did more than join a reliable energy grid — it became India's first village powered entirely by solar... Read more.. |