Opting for renewables

Off-grid thinking

Solar lamps can reach where transmission lines cannot  

An exercise in flippancy

Planning Commission report for a low-carbon future disappoints

Targets or diktats?

India: aim, hope high

Opting for renewables

Carbon credit earns profit

To keep afloat biomass plant owners have shifted their gaze to the international carbon credit market

'Let's put our cards on the table'

Veteran UN negotiator and head of the UNEP during the Rio summit, Mostafa Tolba, reasons why developing countries always suffer at the hands of …

World's biggest trade fair

The US used partnerships to counter multilateralism

Battle of the brackets

The Plan of Implementation is a list of vague expressions

Smokestacks lightening?

Emissions are bound to increase. The power sector improves, but others will spew more, especially iron and steel

Some sectors perform at the global best levels, others can reach there

Wanted, tariff revision

Biomass power plant owners say they cannot manage with power rates fixed when they began operations

Bush discards green

US President George Bush calls for a steep hike in the production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy and drilling for oil and gas in Alaska

Nature cure from India

Crank it up

Trapping the sun's energy

All our energy needs could be met if even a fraction of the solar energy received on the earth could be converted into electricity, and the means …

Renewable or not?

Centre’s regulations do not specify whether cogenerated power is renewable, leaving industrial units which recover waste heat in a fix

It's dark outside the TV grab

For a place in the sun

The just framework for climate

Some nets and sunshine

Fishers in a Tamil Nadu village save cost and improve catch with solar panel-fitted boats

Budget can't bring change

The finance minister pleased the growth brigade with three letters "PPP" but failed to bring change where it was most needed. Down …

Towers of pollution

60 per cent of telecom towers in India are powered by diesel

Dinosaur age ministers