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Govt seeks views on new guidelines for solar projects

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 20, 2015

Government has sought views of developers and other stakeholders on the proposed amendment to the guidelines for setting up of over 2,000 MW grid-connected solar power projects with viability gap funding (VGF).

These projects are being set up under the Jawaharlal Nehru...

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Subject Tags: policy , power

Pune's Pimpri Chinchwad to get LED streetlights

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 20, 2015

Over 8,000 street lights in Pimpri Chinchwad, which have sodium vapour lamps, will be replaced with LED lights.

Pravin Tupe, joint city engineer, PCMC said that prices of LED street lights have gone down which is why the civic body is installing more of them. Of the...

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NGT clears NMC’s solid waste project

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 20, 2015

National Green Tribunal (NGT), western zone bench, has cleared Nagpur Municipal Corporation's (NMC's) municipal solid waste (MSW) to electricity project, thereby paving the way for its execution. NMC had earlier appointed Hanjer, which failed to execute it properly. On...

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Subject Tags: policy , waste

NGT lifts stay on sand mining in Madhya Pradesh

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 19, 2015

Principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi has lifted stay on sand mining in Madhya Pradesh. Previously, on July 20, NGT central zonal bench, Bhopal imposed a stay on river-bed sand mining in the state till October 31.

However, NGT has not lifted stay...

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Subject Tags: policy

Why is Maharashtra's environment department insisting port trust resume coal handling?

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 19, 2015

Maharashtra's environment department seems to have forgotten the reason for its existence. While TOI has, over the last six months, pointed to the devastating environmental impact of mountains of coal lying on port land along the eastern sea front, and even the port trust has...

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Subject Tags: policy

Green Climate Fund directors warn it faces staffing crisis

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 19, 2015

The UN’s flagship Green Climate Fund says it is “severely understaffed” because its salaries aren’t attractive and few want to move to its South Korean HQ in Songdo.

Its directors say it needs more resources and 72 new full-time staff by 2018 to operate effectively....

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India looks to US for tech, funds for renewable start-ups

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 16, 2015

At the recently conducted ‘US-India Energy Partnership Summit’ in Washington DC, Indian solar experts mooted a renewable energy partnership between India and the US — in technology and funding — with the aim of benefitting renewable start-ups.

Calling for US...

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Plan to make Pune India’s first carbon-free city by 2040

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 16, 2015

Oil companies and Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited (MNGL) are collaborating to make Pune India’s first carbon-free city by 2040, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan has said.

Here to launch the pilot of a slew of new initiatives for...

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Subject Tags: policy

'India, China's cooperation important for tackling climate change'

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 16, 2015

The US should work with India and China to address the challenges posed by climate change, leading Democratic presidential candidates have said.

"This is a moral issue. We have got to be extremely aggressive in working with China, India, Russia," Senator Bernie Sanders...

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India approves renewable energy deal with Mozambique

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 16, 2015

The union cabinet on Wednesday approved a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between India and Mozambique in August this year to improve bilateral cooperation in the field of new and renewable energy.

The MoU was signed between the ministry of new and renewable...

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Subject Tags: India , Mozambique , policy