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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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TCS aims to reduce emissions by 70% in 2025, bring down to zero by 2030
Company has set forth this new carbon reduction goal after having achieved the previous target of reducing its specific carbon footprint by half by 2020
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HDFC Bank announces plans to become carbon neutral by 2031-32
The lender is also working on a framework for issuing green bonds.
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Tata Consultancy Services targets to achieve net zero emissions by 2030
In FY 2021, TCS' specific carbon footprint across scope 1 and scope 2 was lower by 61.6 per cent compared to baseline year FY 2008.
India unlikely to accept IEA's call to stop new fossil fuel investments
"We do not think the report by IEA has been vetted by the member countries as a position document", said a senior source in the government
Asia snubs IEA's call to stop new fossil fuel investments for the world
Energy companies in Australia, the biggest carbon emitter per capita among the world's richest nations, and officials in Japan and the Philippines said there were many ways to get to net-zero
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Coal India carbon emissions less than 1 per cent of India's in FY20
State-owned Coal India Ltd on Wednesday said that the PSU accounted for only 0.65 per cent of the country's total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 2,616 million tonnes (MT) during FY2019-20
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Global carbon emissions set for second-biggest increase in history: IEA
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are on course to surge by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021
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Carbon emissions: ReNew Power set to become a Net Zero company by 2050
The company said this aligns with the 'Race To Zero' campaign, a global alliance committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions
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