The government expects India to adopt electric vehicles (EV) in “all natural course” – be it for bikes, cars, trucks, buses and e-rickshaws. The transition was necessary in order toContinue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell is mapping new routes to bring “cleaner” fossil fuels to India as global investors call for firm commitments from oil companies towards climate change mitigation. The world’sContinue Reading
The new report, published last week by independent UK-based non-profit InfluenceMap says that the globe’s five largest publicly-traded oil and gas majors — ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP, andContinue Reading
India has 45.40 gigawatts of hydel power capacity, according to the Central Electricity Authority, contributing about 13 percent to the electricity generation. A parliamentary committee report said the total potentialContinue Reading
A stock-take report of G20 nations to “assess the collective progress” towards the agreed goals states that while none of the G20 nations’ determined emission contributions for 2030 are inContinue Reading
Zero emission from shipping by 2035 was the most ambitious proposal on the table at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), made by the climate-vulnerable Marshall Islands and allies. Over 170Continue Reading
The lost agenda in Climate Change negotiations at Twenty Third Conference of Parties (COP 23) on ambitious pre-2020 mitigation action by developed countries was redeemed with efforts by India, ChinaContinue Reading
At present, our atmosphere has 407 parts per million carbon dioxide (CO2). According to NASA, we’d have to go back to 650,000 years to experience CO2 concentrations this high. TheContinue Reading
