There’s rising need for global co-operation to decarbonise industries
The initiatives at COP28 send out a clear message for the need of international cooperation to achieve accelerated industrial decarbonisation
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Water v industry: where is the question?
An exercise in flippancy
Planning Commission report for a low-carbon future disappoints
8% FOREVER
Per capita emissions will remain competitively low
Some sectors will struggle to be the best, some can’t as they operate in tropical India
Meghalaya limestone quarries closed
Some sectors perform at the global best levels, others can reach there
Bhopal to Germany
Airlifting Union Carbide waste requires amending Indian law, violates Basel Convention
Concrete without sand?
The world is sitting over a landfill of possible substitutes for sand
Let’s build for a green future
CSE recommends that the country should define green and low-carbon cement
Asbestos Unit Disturbs Chainpur's Peace
An 18 hectare plot straddling lychees orchards and farms in Chainpur village of Muzaffarpur district is in the middle of a dispute. Balmukund …
Resource war India after 2020
If the developing world today is the locus of climate change mitigation, including reduction in emissions, then there surely must exist a …
Cementing possibilities
After water, concrete (mainly cement) is the most widely used material on the planet. It is also the second largest industrial emitter of carbon …
Expressly defending white asbestos
The asbestos cement industry is back on the sly with its misinformation campaign. On July 15, 2003, The Indian Express and The Financial Express …
Jettison geography
A fresh map of coastal Gujarat may enable the completion of a jetty whose construction is under dispute
Sordid saga
The Sanghi jetty case takes a new turn as the Gujarat high court directs the Union government to re-examine the issue of environment clearance
Himachal cement plants face flak
The Himachal government's plans to install cement plants in the state create a none too happy situation
Pollution fears cloud future of cement plants
The announcement that more cement factories will be set up in the state has unleashed a controversy. Units already operational have not …
Making cement production less polluting
Researchers are trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the manufacture of cement by finding alternatives to limestone
Problems behind the pugmarks
Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary -- the home of the endangered Asiatic lion -- to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya …
No bricks in the wall
India needs solutions to maximise utilisation of fly ash and reduce consumption of clay and air pollution from fired clay brick kilns
Outsiders in their own land
Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights
10 cement companies, industry body fined Rs 6,300 crore for cartelisation
The Competition Commission of India found the companies were acting in concert to fix the prices of cement