Commentary, action and research on climate and development in India
India’s healthcare sector and educational campuses are expanding rapidly, with a huge cash injection provided by government. An estimated 520 billion rupees is being allocated to the educational sector, while the health sector has been allocated approximately 267 billion rupees. The massive expansion in these sectors has resulted in infrastructure being developed to make provisions for energy services.
IT Power organises workshop on renewable energy technologies
India has called for enhanced energy cooperation in the SAARC region which will lead to the betterment of the lives of all the people in the region. Addressing the 4th SAARC Energy Ministers’ Meeting in Dhaka, Minister of Power, Sushilkumar Shinde said our coming together at this meeting would be an important step forward to realise our vision of a prosperous and developed South Asia.
India calls for enhanced energy co-operation
The Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL), Tiruchi, has cleared the decks to commence the process of installing its proposed two MW solar power plant during the next financial year at an investment of Rs. 17 to 18 crore.
Decks cleared to set up solar power plant
White House officials discussed the political ramifications of a possible default by a troubled solar energy company that received more than $500 million in federal loans, newly released emails show.
New Delhi: Environmental negligence and apathy to genuine social concerns over industrial projects will cost corporate India dear, with the government planning to make company boards directly accountable for such lapses.
For breaches of green rules, the buck will stop at the boardroom
The National Clean Development Mechanism Authority (NCDMA), which is responsible for “evaluation and approval” of Indian projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions to earn credits in the global carbon market, simply believes the promoter’s assurance that the project meets certain key criteria, according to an American consulate cable released by Wikileaks.
Where ‘cursory approval’ led to high rejection rate of Indian projects
For Al Gore, the choice is obvious: Either accept scientific reality about climate change or believe what the fossil fuel industry is paying some Republican candidates to say.
UNITED NATIONS: Global investment in clean energy rose to a record $243 billion dollars last year with the vast majority concentrated in the world’s top 20 economies, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
Global investment in clean energy hits $243 bn: UN
In the days of yore, farmers forecast the weather by looking at the behaviour of birds. “When sparrows bathe in the dust, it rains,” they would say.
But as climate change alters weather patterns in northeast India, it is changing traditional knowledge – and threatening local birds that long have helped farmers control pests in their fields. Birds are “the real friend of farmers,” says Prabal Saikia, an agricultural ornithology specialist at the Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS) in North Lakhimpur, in India’s Assam province.
But these days, “the decline in the bird population has increased the insect population, thereby increasing crop damage,” he said.
Climate change is seriously affecting food production in the Pacific region and could result in rise of hunger and malnutrition in the area, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday.