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Elon Musk promises $100-mn prize for best carbon capture tech: Know details

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he planned to give away $100 million as prize for the 'best carbon capture technology'

World leaders laud US return to climate fight under Biden administration

World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change

Just hours into presidency, Biden announces US will rejoin Paris accord

Biden's action on Paris sends a strong message that the US is prepared to cooperate in the fight against climate change and to reclaim the leadership role it once held

Joe Biden takes sweeping Day One action on energy, climate, immigration

The new president is also ordering the wearing of masks and social distancing in all federal buildings

Climate change may change rainfall pattern in south India, intensify floods

The current study highlighted the drastic alterations to come over future decades in India by isolating the response in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere zones

World's oceans continue to warm, despite reduced carbon emissions

Published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences earlier this week, the study was conducted by 20 scientists from 13 institutes in China, the United States and Italy

Fairer way to help developing economies

The proposed Green New Deal in the United States and the European Commission's European Green Deal have laudable environmental goals but are too inward-looking

Too many companies are banking on carbon capture to reach net zero

The UN Principles for Responsible Investment estimates that some 42 companies announced net-zero targets in 2019

Climate change: PepsiCo aims for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040

The food-and-beverage giant generated about 57 million metric tonnes of greenhhouse gas emissions globally in 2019

Top stock broking firm Zerodha takes climate change fight to grass roots

What sets its dedicated fund apart is that it doesn't back large greenfield projects but offers grants to early-stage innovation in areas like renewable energy and sustainable farming

Every breath you take

Book review of Breathing Here is Injurious to Your Health

Best of BS Opinion: GST's high point, clarity on bitcoin, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

A good climate year

From record low tariff for solar power in India to Joe Biden making climate change his core agenda, 2021 will mark events that will prove to be a good year for the climate

World's richest Bezos tops list of making largest charitable gifts in 2020

The world's richest person made the single-largest charitable contribution in 2020, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of top donations

Team Joe Biden: A climate adviser who is an India-Pakistan pundit too

John Kerry, Biden's pick for climate envoy, also knows the Afghanistan-Pakistan axis for a long time

Environment vs Economy: Why govt is going slow on single-use plastic ban

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had vowed to take the Indian people along in a nationwide commitment to end the use of single use plastic

India faced 2 of 10 most costly climate disasters, damage worth over $10 bn

India is among the countries that are most vulnerable to the fallouts of climate change, and in 2020 it was hit by several extreme weather events

Economic cost of pollution

It could affect productivity and long-term growth

Trump's poll slump to Brexit deal: 2020, a year of disorder amid Covid-19

Trump lost ground, UK exited the EU and the global backlash against China reached new heights for its handling of the pandemic

In a year of extreme weather events, govt pushed coal, diluted green laws

As the year draws to a close, we take a look at the major events that affected India's energy, climate and environment policies