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India wants ethanol to fuel its cars, but food inflation is a major risk

The government will fast-track an ethanol program that will divert as much as 6 million tons of sugar toward fuel production annually by 2025, according to the food ministry

China, India miss UN deadline to update emissions targets: Officials

China and India have missed a United Nations deadline to submit fresh targets for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions, officials said Saturday

Paris climate goals at risk if only rich countries adopt electric cars

Part of the problem is that global automakers design their cars, vans and motorcycles to win over well-heeled customers in the West, largely ignoring the needs of potential buyers in poorer markets

This pilot trading scheme in Surat could help firms reduce air pollution

Industries participating in the pilot scheme reduced their particulate matter pollution by 24% (with an 8% margin of error)

The many paths to a greener future

Jayant Sinha and Anshu Bharadwaj note that India is demonstrating a new paradigm in which economic growth does not have to go together with the consumption of fossil fuels and increasing emissions

Pandemic recovery to push greenhouse emissions to all-time high: IEA

The energy watchdog said the figure represented around a third of what it envisioned was needed in order to put the world on course to reach net zero emissions by mid-century.

Top polluter China starts carbon trade: All you need to know

Carbon allowances opened Friday at 48 yuan ($7.42) a metric ton and quickly hit a 10 per cent daily trading limit, according to people familiar with the details

Floods may be nearly as important as droughts for future carbon accounting

In a global analysis of vegetation over more than three decades, Stanford University researchers found that photosynthesis -- the process by which plants take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere- was primarily influenced by floods and heavy rainfall nearly as often as droughts in many locations.The paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, highlights the importance of incorporating plant responses to heavy rainfall in modelling vegetation dynamics and soil carbon storage in a warming world."These wet extremes have basically been ignored in this field and we're showing that researchers need to rethink it when designing schemes for future carbon accounting," said senior study author Alexandra Konings, an assistant professor of Earth system science in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth). "Specific regions might be much more important for flood impacts than previously thought."More photosynthesis in combination with ...

EU drafts plan to tighten carbon market, expand it to shipping, cars

The European Union wants to overhaul its carbon market to cut planet-warming emissions faster

India among 5 nations responsible for 80% of world's planned coal plants

These plants will endanger Paris climate goals despite the availability of cheaper renewables, a report by financial think tank Carbon Tracker said

World must remove 1 billion tonnes CO2 by 2025 to meet climate goal: Report

Projects in development will remove only a fraction of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air that needs extracting by 2025 to meet the global Paris climate target

Lifetime carbon emissions of electric vehicles versus gasoline cars

Data generated by an Argonne National Laboratory model determines at what point a typical electric vehicle becomes cleaner than an equivalent gasoline car in terms of its lifetime carbon footprint

When do electric vehicles become cleaner than combustion-engine cars?

the production of a mid-sized EV saloon generates 47 grams of CO2 per mile during the extraction and production process. By comparison, a similar gasoline vehicle generates 32 grams per mile

Shaping India's green future

There are two broad development pathways for India: A net-zero approach and a low-carbon approach. Jayant Sinha prefers the former

Panel on energy efficiency, low carbon tech to be set up: R K Singh

RK Singh said a committee will be set up having members from all relevant Ministries for implementation of the Roadmap on Energy Efficiency and low carbon technologies

Best of BS Opinion: The real oximeter, why poor are leaning right & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Monday

Your Netflix habit has a carbon footprint, but the show can go on

Industry-backed study shows one environment impact of streaming is smaller than some estimates in the past.

Carbon emission by Indian IT down 85% due to WFH, digitisation: Study

Pandemic has propelled India's $194 bn outsourcing industry towards carbon neutrality with hybrid working models, e-mobility and digital disruption for campus hiring

Working to become world's largest green railways says Indian Railways

The railways is working in mission mode to become the largest Green Railways in the world and is moving towards becoming a 'net zero carbon emitter' before 2030,national transporter said on Friday.

Airship Airlander 10 takes a page out of history for short-haul flights

HAV, which is marketing its Airlander 10 airship and aims to operate these flights by 2025, says it has a client in Swedish travel firm OceanSky Cruises, which will offer cruises over the North Pole