Commentary, action and research on climate and development in India
Climate change is framed as an existential threat and if public policy is to be tailored to combat it, the science behind it needs to be explained better so as to build popular support – and to prevent distortion by the sceptics.
Views | Warming up to global warming
Anxiety over nuclear plant safety is driving Tokyo to rethink its earlier strategic energy plan which had envisaged, among other things, boosting the role of atomic power.
The accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which led to tens of thousands of people being evacuated from radiation-affected areas in the vicinity, has left its government on the horns of a dilemma. What role should nuclear energy play in the country’s energy mix?
RANCHI: A daylong visit to Jharkhand by Union coal secretary Alok Perti proved to be productive for both the state government and the coal ministry. While the state government sought restoration of coal linkage for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the coal ministry demanded cooperation of the state government in speedy clearance of land for expansion of mining activities in the state.
NAGPUR: After a series of interest rate hikes, power tariff hike, petrol price increase and rising inflation, it may now be the turn of coal. And dearer coal may again fuel another round of price hike in everything from power to cement to steel.
Coal India wage hike may make coal dearer
Recent concerns over weakening US and Chinese growth coupled with European instability have seen coal company share prices at their lowest levels since the 2008 crash. Despite these lows, coal mining production levels and expansion investments remain robust on the back of continued emerging market growth. That is, providing wealth inequality doesn’t change things.
Global coal mining production growing despite volatility – Report
PUNE: The city Congress has demanded that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) should incorporate ‘green energy’ condition in the Development Control (DC) rules.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday Aba Bagul, leader of the Congress in the PMC, said that every year the PMC building department issues permission to more than 1.50 crore sq ft construction and the ‘green energy’ could help cater to the need of growing electricity demand.
Nov. 9: The Centre has granted environment clearance to the Lavasa township, a Sharad Pawar-blessed project that became a test case for the UPA’s ally management skills.
The Union environment ministry, which had stalled the Rs 3,000-crore project a year ago when Jairam Ramesh held the portfolio, has imposed 54 conditions on the township.
The world is likely to build so many new fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be “lost for
ever”, according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.
Anything built from now on that produces carbon will continue to do so for decades to come, and this “lock-in” effect will be the single factor most likely to produce irreversible climate change, the world’s foremost authority on energy economics has found. If this infrastructure is not rapidly changed within the next five years, the results are likely to be disastrous.
Norway-based vertically-integrated player in the solar energy industry Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) today said it was unlikely to set up its manufacturing presence in India in the short-term as the government policy doesn’t give an equal footing to all but favours local manufacturers.
New Delhi: India may raise with Australia and Indonesia the issue of policy changes that has made coal imports expensive for Indian companies that own mines in the two countries.
India likely to raise coal tax issue with Australia, Indonesia