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The office of Malaysia’s Energy Commission, also known as the Diamond Building, is a showcase of technologies that reduce building energy consumption and potable water usage, promote the use of sustainable building material and provide enhanced indoor environmental quality.

Making old buildings energy-efficient can help achieve net-zero goals

27 Mar 2025

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G20 energy ministers call for cooperation on nuclear energy & low-emission hydrogen

23 Jul 2023

3 min read

Africa’s energy sector will need to transform radically — these are the five biggest challenges

Africa’s energy sector will need to transform radically — these are the five biggest challenges

Sebastian Sterl

10 Apr 2023

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Over 700 school participated in Green Schools Programme. Photo: CSE

CSE honours over 100 greenest schools in India

21 Feb 2023

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Only one among the 15 developed and emerging countries that finished at the bottom of the Climatescope power policy scoring table managed to secure more than $2 billion in clean power investment from 2017 to 2021. Photo: iStock.

Not so green: Developing countries raise clean energy targets, but implementation remains incomplete

15 Nov 2022

2 min read

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Energy demand can be lowered with efficient appliances, behavioural change: Study

18 Jun 2021

2 min read

India needs to triple energy generation by 2070 to achieve development, net-zero: Study

India needs to triple energy generation by 2070 to achieve development, net-zero: Study

Rohini Krishnamurthy

12 Apr 2022

2 min read

Energy transition holds key to tackle global energy and climate crisis: IRENA

Energy transition holds key to tackle global energy and climate crisis: IRENA

29 Mar 2022

2 min read

Need to make agri-food systems resilient to address food security: SOFA 2021

Need to make agri-food systems resilient to address food security: SOFA 2021

24 Nov 2021

3 min read

Making India energy-independent by 2047: A look at PM Modi’s blueprint

Making India energy-independent by 2047: A look at PM Modi’s blueprint

18 Aug 2021

3 min read

Why rooftop solar and storage offers a viable future for India

Why rooftop solar and storage offers a viable future for India

Sumedha Awasthy

20 Jul 2021

4 min read

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WATCH: Why we should use a fan with air conditioners?

12 Jul 2021

2 min read

News

Bengal buys dirtiest coal-based power generated in India: CSE study

Bengal buys dirtiest coal-based power generated in India: CSE study

Soundaram Ramanathan

05 Jan 2021

5 min read

India to lead global energy demand over next decade: New report

India to lead global energy demand over next decade: New report

13 Oct 2020

3 min read

How 10 billion people could live well by 2050 – using as much energy as we did 60 years ago

How 10 billion people could live well by 2050 – using as much energy as we did 60 years ago

Joel Millward-Hopkins

12 Oct 2020

5 min read

Consumer information system on fuel economy can help car buyers go green

Consumer information system on fuel economy can help car buyers go green

04 Oct 2020

5 min read

Physicists hunt for superconductors that can revolutionise world’s energy system

Physicists hunt for superconductors that can revolutionise world’s energy system

03 Jun 2020

5 min read

COVID19: Green stimulus should step in to counter oil price crash

COVID19: Green stimulus should step in to counter oil price crash

Tarun Gopalakrishnan

22 Apr 2020

3 min read

Interviews

COVID-19: As lockdown heats up, my AC cools down

COVID-19: As lockdown heats up, my AC cools down

17 Apr 2020

4 min read

COVID-19 candle plan: Delhi power demand dropped 37% in 25 min

COVID-19 candle plan: Delhi power demand dropped 37% in 25 min

Avikal Somvanshi

06 Apr 2020

3 min read

COVID-19: Three charts study power demand a week after lockdown

COVID-19: Three charts study power demand a week after lockdown

02 Apr 2020

3 min read

Clean hydrogen can cut carbon emissions 34%: Study

Clean hydrogen can cut carbon emissions 34%: Study

30 Mar 2020

2 min read

MPs can drive home policy changes — by asking the right questions

MPs can drive home policy changes — by asking the right questions

Soundaram Ramanathan

23 Mar 2020

4 min read

Learning curve: E-Mobility stories from India’s hilly terrains

Learning curve: E-Mobility stories from India’s hilly terrains

11 Mar 2020

4 min read

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How a Kerala couple built a sustainable mud house and a forest of their dreams

20 Feb 2020

2 min read

Small step, wrong direction

Small step, wrong direction

29 Nov 2019

3 min read

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