The first half of this year has been challenging for RE expansion both at the global level and in India. Supply disruptions in coal and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) owing to the Russia-Ukraine war...
As the world recovers from the pandemic, and many across the country are trying to find their feet with gainful employment, a study released early this year by CMIE reveals that agriculture absorbed an additional 11...
A Sustainable Transition The World is looking at a transition from energy production using fossil fuels to renewable energy sources i.e, Wind, water and solar (WWS) in order to achieve the carbon net zero...
Effective July 1, 2022, the Union government has banned identified single use plastics (SUPs) as mandated by the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2021. The stated aim of this ban is to arrest plastic pollution...
As our understanding about the clean energy sector grows, it becomes clear that unlike in the fossil-fuel-based energy projects, in the renewable energy sector, there is a better synergy between policymakers and the industry....
India’s Protected Areas play a crucial role in preserving our precious biodiversity. India is home to 89,000 species of animals and 46,000 species of plants and nearly half the world’s aquatic plants. Conservation of...
Residential energy consumption takes up about 25% share of the total energy consumption in India, a majority of which is drawn from faraway power plants. India is working to achieve its COP 26 goal of...
The power crisis, triggered by the coal shortage, has been in the news for the past few months. Almost the whole of India was caught in a serious power crisis from early May 2022.
Introduction Electric vehicles (EVs) have recently become the buzz word for all the wrong reasons. Almost half a dozen incidents of EVs catching fire have been reported in India since late March of this...
An unprecedented and prolonged heatwave is sweeping across the Indian subcontinent.
India is aggressively promoting the growth of renewable energy in its quest to be a global leader on climate action, but it continues to ignore concerns about the social and environmental impacts of promoting...
Landmark corporate accountability case resulted in critical reforms for the World Bank’s lending arm. April 26, 2022 New Delhi: Last evening India time, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from a fishing community...
22nd April 2022 will be the 52nd year since the observation of Earth Day. A day that marked the birth of the modern environment movement across the West in the back drop of protests against war...
The youth of today are both the most optimistic and pessimistic generation. Some of us have given up and accepted the inevitable doom of climate change and certain others remain apathetic. Considering where they’re...
The union government deregulated the price of petrol in 2010 and diesel in 2015, after which, on paper, oil marketing companies (OMCs) were free to fix the price of the respective fuel, based on...