The fund is expected to create an additional carbon sink equivalent of up to 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide by the year 2030.
India to restore 50 lakh ha of degraded land by 2030
Environment and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar spoke of India’s resolve ahead of UNCCD meet to be held on 2–13 September 2019 near Delhi.
Modi talks Biodiversity, Oceans, Climate at G7
At G7 meet, Prime Minister Modi highlighted India’s large-scale efforts in eliminating single-use plastic, conserving water, harnessing solar energy, and protecting flora and fauna for a sustainable future.
Big policy boost coming for ocean energy sector
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has stated that energy produced using various forms of ocean energy such as tidal, wave, ocean thermal energy conversion will considered as renewable energy.
Wind power companies to get lease rent waiver
So far, to establish wind power project over forest land, the wind power companies had to pay additional lease rent of Rs 30,000 per MW.
Karnataka tops rooftop solar ranking index
The Index evaluates Indian states based on their attractiveness for grid-connected rooftop solar development, and has been jointly designed by MNRE, SSEF, ASSOCHAM, and Ernst & Young.
Drive to eliminate single use plastic gathers pace
A day after Lok Sabha Secretariat said it has banned the use of single-use plastic within the Parliament complex, Ministry of Railways has already issued a circular to ban single-use plastics, while Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying under Ministry of...
NPC holds meet on sustainable food safety
The two-day national conference organized by National Productivity Council focuses on capacity building of sustainable food value chains.
Environment min opens draft NREP for comments
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is inviting inputs from organizations, experts, and concerned citizens on the draft National Resource Efficiency Policy, 2019.
MoHUA workshop lays focus on tech usage
The workshop on sustainable sanitation discussed best practices in areas such as biomethanation of municipal solid waste and saw release of guidance manuals.