Coal-based power plants pollute most

How do your favourite fashion brands score on climate card? Quite bad

Sports brands fare better than fast fashion ones on climate commitments as well as switch to low-carbon materials in manufacturing

Green hydrogen can drive India’s transition to clean energy, combat climate change

By 2030, the cost of green hydrogen is expected to compete with that of hydrocarbon fuels

Factsheet: Climate change FAQs

Climate change refers to a change of climate attributed directly or indirectly to human  activity that alters the composition of the global …

Change the climate now

Now that the rich are also being hit by climate change & the “attribution” is clear, the targets for the world’s anger will …

Trump’s remark on India’s coal usage highly misleading

This is the second time that US has blamed India and China for pulling out of the climate agreement

Why Trump is a bad businessman

By pulling out of Paris Agreement, US loses an opportunity to expand clean energy markets and create jobs

Pet coke conundrum

We are buying the world’s dirtiest fuel as if we have no worries of air pollution. This needs to change

Policy Backfires

Policy design allows dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil to flourish 

A renewable energy future for India

The challenge before India is how to meet its energy requirements without compromising the ecology of the country. In addition, we have to be …

COVID-19: Daily electricity demand dips 15% globally, says report

There is, however, a spike in residential demand for electricity, because of people staying and working from home

Act now : How climate action in this decade can prevent catastrophic global warming later

There is scientific consensus that rapid and deep cuts to emissions in this decade, and not later, will avoid scenarios of uncontrollable warming …

Too much fossil fuel output planned to cap global warming: UN report

Global production of coal, oil and gas should decline annually by 11%, 4%, and 3% to be consistent with the 1.5°C pathway, according to The …

Book Digest: Tales of tradition from Himalayas, cultural influences in COVID-19 world and more

Prospects of fossil-free future to politics of climate change, DTE tracks new books on environment and development from leading authors  

What's in store for US climate agenda after Obama?

The success of Paris Climate deal depends largely on the political willingness of one of the largest emitters in the world

Act locally, benefit globally

This is a real life story of the world’s three wicked problems, one opportunity and a new way to confront global challenges

Sun City

The German capital Berlin gives a preview of the solar energy future

Breathing easy

Cairo embraces CNG in a big way

Breathe easy

EU proposes cleaner air

Count the soot

Black carbon from diesel, not from biomass, warms the globe

Once again, US walks away from global climate agreement  

Without the US being held accountable for reducing its share of emissions, the world cannot keep warming “well below 2°C”

Reassess consents for upcoming coal power plants to prevent pollution norm violation

Some 95 per cent of the upcoming power stations have not made any plans to meet new pollution norms due to loose enforcement

UK leads G-7 on emission cuts and growth since Rio, says study

The average Briton’s carbon footprint is now 33 per cent less than in 1992 while being more than 130 per cent richer, says the report

Managed decline of fossil fuel production needed to meet climate change target

Carbon emissions from the oil, gas and coal in the currently operating fields and mines are enough to take the world beyond 2°C of warming

Coal is all about energy security, says coal minister Piyush Goyal

Government bats for using the best technology available for sourcing energy from coal so that the adverse consequences on environment are …