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New energy conundrum

As countries reconcile their energy supply options with climate change, will they reinvent the fossil fuel-based system or reinvest in it?

Renewable energy sources defeating coal, says report

Lenders prefer renewable energy over coal, especially in 2018: Centre for Financial Analysis Report Coal Vs Renewable

Timeline of an unwarranted act: How India has legislated on forests

Does independent India's first amendment to the Indian Forest Act reflect the changes in forest policy?

The global food system still benefits the rich at the expense of the poor

Global food system issues can be traced to colonial history. It's time food production became more sustainable so that it meets the needs of …

Investors, insurers ask G20 economies to stop fossil fuel subsidies

The G20 governments were urged to establish a deadline for phasing out fossil fuel subsidies for a steady decline in greenhouse gas emissions

Lost in the jungle

The anti-people attitude that environmental NGOs had vehemently opposed in the '80s has resurfaced in the recent draft Forest Policy Bill. The …

To Russia, with love

Russia's forests receive a shot in the arm following a recent international decision to protect them from logging

Whither food security?

IN THE FAMINE TRAP·Devinder Sharma·The Ecological Foundation in association with UK Food Group· London·1997

Hyundai: Stringent norms?

As per the auto fuel policy released this year, vehicles running in cities must meet Euro iii emission norms, apparently very stringent, by April …

Nepal declares energy emergency

To generate 2,500 MW of electricity by 2016

Derailed

...Tamil Nadu's initiative to promote wind energy

1.6 per cent

Gas crisis hits Bangladesh

Off-grid thinking

Solar lamps can reach where transmission lines cannot  

Out of option

Solar becomes lifeline for power-starved Bihar, but cheap and inferior equipment dominate market

'I don't want subsidies'

For five years the non-profit Centre for Renewable Energy has been promoting and selling expensive solar lamps to poor families in Nepal. Today …

Tikait on Green revolution

When asked to comment on the green revolution, Mahendra singh Tikait, Bharat Kisan Union (BKU) leader relates it to issues of organic …

Tikait on farmer loans

Here's a sneak preview of BKU (Bharat Kisan Union) Leader Mahendra Singh Tikait's tête-á-tête with DTE on farmers' income, …

Leverage scrappage investments for bigger gains

An important step forward. Needs firmer commitments on incentives for green recovery

Discoms bailed out

Cabinet Committee approves plan to free state power distribution companies of debt

The hazy future

A policy that kills!

The government's fuel pricing policy is the very essence of irrationality

Electrifying ride

REVA leads the charge for electric vehicles in India