Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (Dec 31-Jan 4)

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

Despite growing demand for climate fund, nations fail to agree on replenishment process

Discussions on funding proposals could not happen due to process-related disagreements among Board members

Heritage Trees of Delhi

Monuments built by the numerous rulers of Delhi have also become home to some of the city’s old, indigenous trees. These were termed as “…

Should farmers get steady income?

Farmers have rarely been considered eligible for payment for various ecological services. The old concept of Payment for Ecosystem Services can …

Industry lobbyists deny GHG emission from meat production, blame small herders

Methane, the major GHG from livestock, remains in the atmosphere for only 10 years but traps 28 times more heat than CO2

Bengal shows the way forward to reduced fireworks noise standard on Diwali

National Green Tribunal upholds move by state pollution control board to cap noise level limit at 90 decibels 

Breaching the threshold

How do we sustain our consumption patterns? And how can we feed the 1.2 billion living in poverty?

Smog over electric cars

As pressure mounts on them to produce more electric cars, manufacturers question their environmental benefits

Under the umbrella of eco-friendliness

Are the new ISRO 14000 environment standards industry's gift to a polluted globe, or merely the developed world's competition killing strategy

Malaysia Marching

Successful local involvement in a Malaysian park throws up an answer to heavyweight World Bank terms and plans for ecodevelopment

The colour of money

Green is the colour of money. In the upper niche of the Indian consumer market, where fads rule the roost, any product that is tagged "eco-…

Eco-cool

An Indian firm introduces eco-friendly air conditioners and takes a step towards a future free from ozone holes

Most biodiversity panels now in place, National Biodiversity Authority to tell NGT

More than 243,000 committees formed as of January; target was to set up 252,709.

Ancient roots of a modern holiday

When May Day meant rebirth of the soil

UK paid £43 billion in green taxes in 2013

The figure was the highest ever for the country, with the majority of the environmental taxes paid by the commercial sector

A thin green coating

No check on performance of green-rated buildings; developers pocket government incentives

‘Energy conservation is a moving target’

A decade has passed since the Energy Conservation Act was enacted in 2001. Most provisions of the law are yet to be implemented properly. Ajay …

Here are some new trends in electrolyser tech to catalyse green hydrogen production

Cost of the electrolysers must be reduced to produce hydrogen at competitive rates

‘Modern buildings cannot breathe’

Kolkata-based architect Laurent Fournier tells how ceilings can float and why bamboo-reed-mud make more sense than brick-concrete-steel

As told to Parliament (December 7, 2023): 397 Asiatic lions died in Gujarat from 2019-22

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

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

What is the Green Credit Programme?

It is a first-of-a-kind market-based instrument designed to incentivise individuals, industries and local bodies for their voluntary …

Traditional knowledge of small farmers key to climate-smart agriculture

Proofing small farmers from weather vagaries is critical to climate adaptation

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

Sunderlal Bahuguna: The oxygen for the global green fraternity

Anecdotes from the environmental activist's visit to Kolkata a decade back