What the Asia-Pacific needs to leap forward on climate action

To break their 'two steps forward, one step back' routine on climate action, the Asia-Pacific needs to start delivering on ambitious emissions targets

EV industry can reshape Indian employment landscape with green jobs, but building a skilled workforce is key

Industry could generate 10 million direct jobs, 50 million indirect ones by 2030; Can take examples from China and Germany

Simply Put: Greenwashing

High time to recreate biogas development & training centres to sustain India’s compressed biogas sector

Despite significant government support, over 90% of operational CBG plants functioning below intended production capacity  

Race to save the world

‘Racing Green’ shows how motorsport acts as a proving ground to experiment with sustainable innovations that can be adopted for …

Visiting the Trinity Site featured in ‘Oppenheimer’ is a sobering reminder of the horror of nuclear weapons

The main attraction at the Trinity Site is a simple obelisk made of volcanic rocks marking Ground Zero

EV manufacturers fined over non-indigenous components: Misappropriation of subsidy or notional loss?

Basic necessities for making an EV battery, like aluminum and copper current collectors, are not available in India. Firms making them are …

National Electricity Plan: No coal expansion, renewable capacity to dominate in India by 2031-32

Emissions from power sector in a decade expected increase by 10 million tonnes; efficienty of plants to be improved

Study finds eight coal-fired thermal plants in India stranded liabilities, recommends acquisition by NTPC

In 2018, 34 stressed plants were identified; 26 resolved fully or partially

Coal’s share in India’s power mix to decline to half by 2030, renewables to meet new demand: CEA

Solar is expected to lift the load in the future power mix, while projections for large hydropower and wind remain modest  

India reduced emissions intensity 33% in 2005-2019, shows new submission to UN

Current clean power capacity of 41% but 73% power generation in 2022-23 from coal  

Union Budget 2024-25: Boost for renewable energy, emphasis on EV infrastructure

MoEFCC and MNRE see hike in budgetary allocation; 10 million houses to be brought under rooftop solar scheme

Crop Residue Management Guidelines 2023-24 welcome move for bioenergy industry but concerns remain

Project still lacks timeline, making it difficult to gauge the urgency with which the government wants to begin implementation

World EV Day 2023: To fast track change, India needs Zero Emission Vehicle mandate

An ambitious vehicle electrification roadmap needs regulatory targets and ZEV supply mandate to bring more certainty in investments and markets

State of Energy: We still use unclean cooking fuel

One out of three—or 33.8%—households in India continue to use firewood, chips and crop residue as their primary cooking fuel. The use …

Japan to release radioactive Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific Ocean after IAEA’s approval

Critics say that more studies are required to show how this discharge would affect aquatic life

Farmers who gave up land for Saharanpur solar plant are angry; here is why

Farmers allege broken promises, no compensation for trees cut and land grabbed; Power company disputes allegations

Electric arc furnace-based steel production is witnessing a global rise

Global industry of electric arc furnaces was valued at $800 million in 2022, projected to increase to $1.3 billion by 2031

How India’s beaches can unlock a nuclear-powered future

India’s Indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor and abundant thorium reserves hold key to India’s future energy security

Ghana’s electricity crisis is holding the country back — how it got here

A rapid succession of regimes and the ravages of structural adjustment policies in the 1980s and 1990s challenged the ability of Ghana to clean …

This is not the time to obscure the e-car pathway

As the car industry has to prepare for firmer regulatory targets for electrification and upscaled market by 2030, only incremental steps within …

Solutions at intersection of traditional knowledge & technology can help rural farmers

With the onset of climate change, monsoon has grown irregular and arrives later with every passing year, worsening the declining water table and …

DTE Call For Action: Can India achieve ‘sustainable cooling’?

The answer lies in fully utilising the knowledge of ‘the Cooling Web’ as well as traditional cooling methods

EV manufacturers fined over non-indigenous components: Is it misappropriation of subsidy or notional loss?

Okinawa Autotech, Hero Electric told to pay Rs 249 crore for misappropriation of FAME II subsidies

SDG 7: World still off-track from achieving universal energy access to all, says UN report

High inflation, debt distress, policy inactions and lagging financial flows slowing access to electricity, clean cooking in developing economies