Why training in eco-driving is a dire necessity in India

Trained drivers who practise eco-driving principles help lowering fuel consumption and fatality rates

Dirt cheap backup: Why Finland’s installation of the world’s 1st sand battery may be a game-changer

Sand batteries can ensure round-the-year availability of clean energy

Getting out of fossils

Quickly ramping up cheaper finance should be JET-P’s focus so that the new energy future is clean

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’

Widespread natural gas adoption in Africa can create millions of jobs: Study

Despite holding over 8% of the world’s proven reserves of natural gas, Africa remains the most energy-poor continent

Exxon scientists accurately forecast climate change back in the 1970s – what if we had listened to them and acted then?

Climatic collapse — as we understand it in our world today — could have largely been avoided perhaps

Davos 2023: UN chief urges credible net-zero pledges; slams ‘Big Oil’ firms

Guterres compared fossil fuel sector to the cigarette industry in the 1970s, where businesses were aware of the harmful health impact

‘Fox in the henhouse’: African climate activists decry Sultan Al Jaber’s appointment as COP28 president

Oil company CEO’s appointment as COP28 president will embolden fossil fuel lobbies and derail global climate action, said experts

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

2022: Looking back to move ahead for clean energy transitions

The presence of the goods and services tax impedes the country’s voluntary carbon market

2022 too short, too far: How close did the world move towards the clean energy dream?

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

Net Zero by 2050 possible, but clean energy investments need to outweigh fossils fast: Report

Heavy investment, hydrogen and carbon capture & storage can help keep the temperature increase to 1.7 degrees Celsius

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 …

COP27: Cover decision text makes no mention of all fossil fuels; India displeased

It has been suggested that the Egypt Presidency could be blocking the inclusion of fossil fuel in the text since Egypt is its largest producer …

Simply Put: Climate subterfuge

From Africa to Europe @ COP27: Keep off our gas fields

History shows fossil fuel extraction in Africa hardly benefits locals

G-20 spent nearly $700 billion supporting fossil fuels in 2021

Fossil support spending increased by 16% in 2021

Economic downturn eats into climate mitigation, adaptation funding: UNCTAD

Reduced green investment will put a spanner in the efforts to fasttrack solutions for climate change. 

As world converges for an African CoP, the continent’s east bets on geothermal

Ethiopia, Kenya are actively making efforts to generate geothermal power; but experts have concerns

Bitcoin mining unsustainable; climate damages comparable to beef, natural gas, crude oil: Study

In 2021, the total global damages of all coins mined exceed $3.7 billion  

Simply Put: End fossil fuels

Simply Put: To use fossil, or not to use

Southern African countries can do better at infrastructure: What the choices might look like

Decision makers need to employ strategic foresight to better navigate uncertainty, upheaval and inevitable change

Sulphuric acid: The next resource crisis that could stifle green tech and threaten food security

Rapid growth in the green economy and intensive agriculture could see demand rise to over 400 million tonnes by 2040