In the first-of-its-kind public-private partnership, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad’s (IIMA) Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) has joined hands with Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), BP (earlier known as British Petroleum) and Technology Development Board (TDB) to launch the Indian Fund for Sustainable Energy (INFUSE).

CIIE to launch Rs100 crore energy fund

NAGPUR: Climate change is on everybody’s minds these days. The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has also planned to launch some sophisticated satellites to keep a watch on climate change.

ISRO’s eyes in the sky to watch climate change

 

PATNA: In a first, the Bihar Renewable Energy Development Agency (BREDA) in collaboration with the Centre has conducted energy audit of the state capital`s major 14 government buildings to make an assessment of the amount of energy consumed. It is aimed to initiate a process to minimize the wastage of energy in government buildings.

Audits aim to save energy in govt buildings

Climate change represents a threat not only to the existence of individual species, but also to the genetic diversity hidden within them, researchers say. The finding promises to complicate assessments of how climate change will affect biodiversity, as well as conservationists’ task in preserving it.

Climate change will hit genetic diversity

Climate change today is one of the most serious problems facing humanity, effects of which long-term, global and even life threatening. The problem is not only environmental but it is encompassing social and economic issues within, which need to be addressed without delay.

Cities and Climate Change

BANGALORE: Minister for Energy, Food and Civil Supplies Shobha Karandlaje said that the state is tapping renewable sources of energy to meet the increasing demands for power.

Renewable energy to power Karnataka by 2016

PUNE: REFUsol GmbH, a manufacturer of solar inverters, will start local production of its products from the end of this year and first deliveries by early 2012. This manufacturing facility will be located in Pune, where it has already set up a customer support office.

German solar inverter to set up manufacturing base in India

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Monday that as the nation had declared the current decade as the “Decade of Innovation,” students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, should find scientific solutions to complex problems ranging from rapid urbanisation to climate change to energy security.

 Students urged to carry out more cutting-edge research

Expressing displeasure over the recent tightening of norms for grant of environment clearance to industrial projects, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma has urged the environment and forest ministry to issue correctives.In a letter to minister Jayanthi Natarajan, he asked her to “personally intervene” to “allay the misapprehension of the entrepreneurs on environment policy”.

Finetune environment policy: Anand Sharma

The Ministry of Environment and Forests has justified in the Supreme Court its decision to withdraw environmental clearance granted to the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) for a bauxite mining project in Orissa.The court had on August 1 issued notice to the Centre on an application from OMC challenging the July 11 order. The OMC said the order was illegal, arbitrary and in violation of the court’s earlier directions that gave a green signal to the project.

MoEF justifies withdrawal of clearance to OMC project