Leading Indian companies have taken the first major step towards a possible emissions trading scheme, with more than 20 of India’s leading companies joining an initiative to voluntarily report their greenhouse gas emissions. The voluntary emissions reporting program has been launched by the World Resources Institute India, the Confederation of … [continued]
On his 40th birthday, living legend of the cricketing world and arguably the best ambassador of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar joined hands with Schneider Electric to bring light to the lives of thousands of Indians struggling to access electricity in rural areas. Schneider Electric plans to distribute LED-based lighting systems across 25,000 … [continued]
The Indian government recently provided subsidies worth $10 million for projects aimed at promoting the use of solar energy in rural areas. The subsidies went to projects which distributed solar lanterns and installed solar home-lighting systems in villages across the country. In a statement released by the Ministry of New … [continued]
A bio-remediation technique involving the use of ‘oil zapping’ bacteria has been employed to clean up the Mumbai shoreline affected by the oil spill that occurred earlier this month. [social_buttons] The oil spill happened when a merchant vessel M V Khalijia collided with a cargo ship MSC Chitra 10 km off … [continued]
Two companies, MIC Electronics and Beltron Telecom Green Energy Systems Ltd (BTGES), have signed an agreement to distribute 330,000 LED lamps in the rural areas of the Indian state of Bihar. The aim is to distribute 10 million lamps in the nest three years. [social_buttons] MIC Electronics already has arrangements with one … [continued]
India’s proposal to set up a network of climate innovation centers across the world for the development of affordable clean energy technologies for the developing and poor countries has gained approval ‘in-principle’ at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. [social_buttons] The issue of technology transfer has been a contentious one with … [continued]
