India’s polluting heavy industries need a tech, capital rethinkThe union budget 2024 promises a road map that will help hard-to-abate industries to move to new clean technologies. Such a transition cove...
20 Aug, 2024, 08.05 PM IST
Google-backed MethaneSAT satellite to track global oil industry methane emissionsThe MethaneSAT satellite will add to a growing fleet of spacecraft in orbit that are meant to help fight climate change by publishing data ...
04 Mar, 2024, 09.17 PM IST
2023 was hottest year on record; critical 1.5C limit nearly breached: EU climate monitorsClimate change intensified heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the planet, and pushed the global thermometer 1.48 C above the preindus...
09 Jan, 2024, 06.20 PM IST
COP28 lines up new climate pledges - but do they work?Among the expected pledges at COP28 are a goal to triple renewable energy capacity and initiatives on methane and coal power. These volunta...
02 Dec, 2023, 09.04 AM IST
Ships across the world face a hefty $3.6 billion climate billUnder the regulation, which takes effect Jan. 1, vessels going into and out of EU ports must pay for their carbon pollution, affecting deli...
22 Nov, 2023, 09.21 AM IST
US helps forge global group on measuring climate-warming emissions from natural gasThe US and more than a dozen countries and groups have forged a working group to advance efforts to measure greenhouse gas emissions across...
15 Nov, 2023, 09.49 PM IST
EU reaches deal to reduce highly polluting methane gas emissions from energy sectorEuropean Union negotiators reached a deal on Wednesday to reduce highly polluting methane gas emissions from the energy sector across the 2...
15 Nov, 2023, 02.55 PM IST
EU agrees law to hit fossil fuel imports with methane emissions limitThe European Union has reached a deal to impose methane emissions limits on oil and gas imports from 2030. This law will require importers ...
15 Nov, 2023, 09.33 AM IST
COP28 climate dispute: what are 'unabated' fossil fuels?As countries convene for the COP28 climate summit in Dubai later this month with the shared goal of expediting the transition away from fos...
08 Nov, 2023, 04.02 PM IST
Big emissions bills are coming for ships sailing in EuropeThe ships carry over 80% of the trade globally and contribute a big chunk in terms of emissions, producing about 1 billion tons of CO2 into...
19 Sep, 2023, 10.04 AM IST
Export, import cost may increase from Jan 2027 as global shipping faces costly decarbonisation measuresThe global shipping industry's decarbonisation measures may increase the cost of exports and imports from January 2027, a report by GTRI sa...
10 Jul, 2023, 05.03 PM IST
Are potato chip bags recyclable? Snack companies try new packagingCompanies that aren’t moving towards plastic-free packaging yet may be forced to in the future, as regulators start to step in. But the hur...
27 Mar, 2023, 11.02 PM IST
Green hydrogen: Why low-carbon fuels are not benefiting from high fossil fuel pricesIn US, some power stations are being upgraded to allow hydrogen to be blended with fossil gas, and the Norwegian oil company Equinor is tea...
14 Jan, 2023, 08.51 PM IST
Asthma study sparks debate about safety of cooking with gasThe authors of the study said their findings suggested that around 650,000 US children would not have developed asthma if their homes had e...
12 Jan, 2023, 12.10 PM IST
Nearly 90 countries join pact to slash planet-warming methane emissionsNearly 90 countries have joined a U.S.- and EU-led effort to slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane 30% by 2030 from 2020 lev...
02 Nov, 2021, 11.04 AM IST
View: A dekko at the lay of the land post-Covid that will present new threats and opportunitiesThe State not just makes policy — industrial policy, urban planning guidelines — but plans for the economy and regulates huge swathes of it...
05 Jan, 2021, 11.04 PM IST