Science & Technology - Briefs

India’s ethanol mandate comes with some hidden trade-offs

India’s push for ethanol has raised concerns about its impact on the environment & food security

COP-9 makes slow progress

Developing world taps renewable energy at twice the rate of rich countries

China leads the global rank on clean energy; India is placed fourth

Change must be championed

Can Bio-CNG click: A primer on this coming of age tech that can deal with air pollution at 3 levels

Apart from biodegradable waste, agricultural residue, cow dung and chicken litter and press mud from sugar factories are also used as feedstock …

Wood-based jet fuel may reduce carbon emission, but what about the cost?

Whether isobutanol is made from wood waste or corn, the financial cost of this new fuel is proving to be a major deterrent to industry-wide adoption

Nature cure from India

India's ambitious plan to boost biofuel likely to fail without roadmap

In Chhattisgarh, which was supposed to emerge as a biofuel hub by 2014, the plan for establishing biodiesel industry never took off

Counting grains

EU's biofuel policy fuelling food inflation: ActionAid

Report predicts forced displacement of poor people from their land to meet EU targets to grow fuel crops

Private sector aggressively pursuing production of green hydrogen: Hardeep Singh Puri at G20 event

IEA Director Fatih Birol says the renewable energy sector is not limited to climate goals, is an integral part of the economy today  

Bioenergy crops create cooling effect on cultivated areas: Study

Global air temperature decreases by 0.03~0.08 °C, after 50 years of large-scale bio-energy crop cultivation 

Is biofuel use fit for both air and land?

While ICAO has proposed that biofuel use in passenger planes be increased rapidly to cut carbon emissions, environmentalists disagree

News 360 - Brief

Food vs fuel

Empty Promises

The high-level conference at Rome was called to find a way out of the global food crisis. A series of consultations with experts preceded this …

New technique developed to make biodiesel cleaner

Scientists have developed a cost-effective strategy to convert crude glycerol, a by-product of manufacturing biodiesel, into a green fuel

Renewable or not?

Centre’s regulations do not specify whether cogenerated power is renewable, leaving industrial units which recover waste heat in a fix

Market and mitigation dominated G20 climate actions — not a good signal leading to COP28, claim experts   

Woefully inadequate in response to Global Stocktake Report and unlikely to keep temperature rise within 1.5°C  

CSE analysis: Industries in Delhi-NCR shifting to cleaner fuels, but major roadblocks to be addressed

Continuous PNG supply, air pollution control devices, stronger emissions monitoring systems need of the hour

Brief

Canada, UK given Dodo Awards by civil society

The awards are given to countries that contribute to biodiversity loss

Biodiesel from microalgae becomes a reality

May be available commercially in five years

Science & Technology - Briefs