Green bonds: Is it green finance or green-washing?

A foremost requirement to develop a robust green bond market is to harmonise international and domestic guidelines and standards for …

Diesel prices: don’t miss the point

Fuel price reform is inevitable and necessary, but clean fuel and public transport agenda for health protection must not be derailed

'Defaulting Ganga dams in Uttarakhand to be shut for a month'

A state govt undertaking and 2 private dams don't want to follow water discharge norms

Scientists meeting in France seek more funds for nuclear energy

They claim nuclear energy, being clean, would help mitigate climate change

Clean(er) cooking in India: How solid fuels in rural Indian households contribute to climate crisis

Solid cooking fuel use makes up 13% of India’s national GHG emissions but is unaccounted in the national report

What will the National Green Hydrogen Mission mean for India?

The idea is to bring down the production cost from Rs 350-400 per kilogram to about Rs 100 per kg

Electric cars could one day power your house – here’s how to make it happen

The process won’t be smooth. Solutions are numerous, but will need support from power companies, and even car manufacturers and finance …

Union government needs to focus on clean air

According to the State Of Global Air Report 2019, 12 lakh people are dying prematurely due to toxic air and dying 2.6 years earlier in India

CSE Clean City Awards: Panaji's five-way segregation keeps the city clean

Panaji has five-way segregation at source for solid waste. For markets and residential colonies, it has put in place decentralised composting …

'All polluters are equal, but some polluters are more equal than others'

With so many exemptions and VIPs refusing to use public transport, can the odd-even scheme be considered a success?

Air pollution in rural India: Ignored but not absent

Air pollution is a transboundary problem, it transcends rural and urban boundaries. But the issue is rarely discussed and action plans are rigid

Union Budget 2019-20: Blue sky thinking hits grey sky limit

New budget gives miss to blue-sky mission. Offers only a few sectoral hooks in transport and energy to nudge clean air action

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 12, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Improving mobility for clean air: Why cities fall short of their goals

Transportation and mobility strategies are the weakest link in the National Clean Air Action Plans 

Environment reports: potential and challenges of deploying clean energy across continents

Here's an overview of recently released reports and studies on renewable energy 

Pollution in news on May 23

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on pollution

19% of world’s people without access to clean water live in India

Yet state governments are not serious enough

Can Bio-CNG click: Here is a look into the challenges faced by this technology

High capital investment is also stopping small investors from entering the CBG scene

India’s race to a green hydrogen future

The march to a net zero future has received a boost with India announcing a suite of green hydrogen plans

30 sub-Saharan Africa countries among 38 that fail to provide basic electricity access

More than 60% of Africa’s population is facing acute energy poverty

CDM cleansing

Incentives needed for cleaner energy from thermal power sources

The Electricity Act, 2003 needs to address the issue of incentivising adoption of cleaner fuels to generate power

Green minerals race: Ghana approves policy to reap maximum benefits from mining projects 

Seen as part of continental strategy driven by resource nationalism, move may affect Ewoyaa lithium project

Tanzania’s gas boom that never was — when local hopes are dashed by global realities

Perceptions of what gas could bring in the future changed; the industry shattered dreams and left environmental effects such as pollution …

Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Decades of research still needed before fusion can be used as clean energy

Regardless of the efficiency of a future fusion power plant, taking energy conversions from basic science to the real world will require …