THERMAL POWER

Power plants consumed 530 million tonnes of coal in 2014-15, which is around three-fourths of the total coal use in the country

Carbon dioxide emissions on a 35 per cent high

Chalk, cheese and climate change: What Trump and Biden think about the environment

While Democrat Biden has a balanced outlook, Republican Trump’s perspective is simply not in agreement with the global climate movement

Science & Technology - Briefs

The just framework for climate

Dash for gas: 7 new countries enter African gas markets

 84% new reserves to come up in the 7 countries that have no history of fossil gas exploitation, finds Global Energy Monitor

A year of Russia-Ukraine war: Global fossil fuel ‘bonanza’ may lead to more conflicts, warns Greenpeace

‘Neo-colonial models of extracting fossil fuels at any cost have to come to an end’

Sunk again

Another report lambastes the theory of land carbon-sinks

China's agenda to tackle climate change

Dinosaur age ministers

Unregulated import of used vehicles bad for Africa: Report

Trade in old and used vehicles from high-income countries causes massive environmental dumping and toxic pollution

Walk the talk on carbon tax, Mr Finance Minister

Is this carbon tax, imposed on the carbon content of fuel, doing what it should—reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are responsible for …

Chile becomes first South American country to enforce carbon tax

At $5 per tonne of carbon emitted, tax law will target big power plants

Business in Bali: The science is clear, it's high time to sort out the politics

Gaseous menace

Scientists and researchers try to figure out ways to curb rising carbon dioxide levels

US Matters

The world is already celebrating the US' emissions reduction framework. Our research shows the US climate change action plan is neither ambitious …

Coal politics in an unequal world

Australia backs coal in the run up to new climate deal

Prime Minister Tony Abbott supports use of fossil fuels for economic growth at G20 summit

Changing basic nature

Countries move from labs to seas to study the implications of ocean acidification

India's economic growth is shortsighted

Swedish renaissance

Second-generation reforms in energy certification come through

Flyash can be used viably

How to rewrite the Durban script

The challenge of the chulha

World’s two biggest polluters-China and US-strike deal to cut carbon emissions

Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment warns the deal will push the world to catastrophic increase in average global temperature