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India’s green building market to hit $85 bn by 2032; reusing furniture can cut carbon 40%India's green building market is set for significant growth. Reusing existing furniture offers a substantial 30-40% reduction in embodied c...
India's export engine faces carbon headwinds as net-zero rules tighten, study saysA study reveals that over two-thirds of India's exports, valued at $824.9 billion, face climate-related risks due to stringent net-zero reg...
Carbon Guardians aims for Rs 100 crore revenue by decarbonizing commercial real estate in IndiaCarbon Guardians, a climate-tech firm, aims for Rs 100 crore revenue. This is due to rising demand for eco-friendly offices in India. The c...
BITS Pilani launches Advanced Research Centre for Sustainable Energy TechnologiesBITS Pilani is launching the Advanced Research Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (ARCSET). This initiative emphasizes research and...
Corporates demand carbon-neutral office spaces amid sustainability pushLarge corporates are now assessing the carbon footprint of office spaces before leasing to achieve carbon neutrality, leading to a shift to...
Vibhor Jain, former Cushman & Wakefield MD for north India, launches Carbon GuardiansVibhor Jain, formerly with Cushman & Wakefield, has launched Carbon Guardians to provide carbon neutral managed office spaces for corporate...
India has over 7,000 IGBC-certified projectsMaharashtra leads India in IGBC-registered projects, followed by Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. With over 7,000 certified projects, India is ex...
Suzuki outlines tech strategy for next 10 years for various markets including IndiaThe automaker, which has around 58 per cent stake in the country's largest carmaker maruti Suzuki India, said it will further evolve the li...
India's buildings sector to overshoot country's entire carbon budget: ReportThe countries are striving to achieve net-zero emissions (a balance between greenhouse gases emitted and removed from the atmosphere) to li...
Sugarcrete's material benefits, sweet R&DThe building and construction sector is the largest emitter of GHGs, accounting for 37% of global emissions. Historically, its progress has...
Reducing embodied emissions in building design could save up to 6 gigatonnes of carbon by 2050Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Bath, UK, devised a computer model and used it to estimate that these recommendations coul...
Tata Realty’s Ramanujan Intellion Park becomes India’s first EDGE Zero Carbon ProjectEDGE’s new Zero Carbon certification allows asset owners to map a quantified path to zero carbon and attain immediate recognition through c...
Construction & cement giants join hands with advisory firm XynteoXynteo's 'Build Ahead Coalition' is set to accelerate India’s de-carbonisation efforts.
RICS embeds the newly launched universal method to report carbon in buildings and infrastructurePrior to launch there were conflicting ways to report carbon, and according to the RICS Global Construction Monitor, 40% of industry didn’t...
Lodha Group aims carbon neutrality in operations by 2035The country’s largest real estate developer, in terms of residential sales, will undertake the entire process in two phases.
Paris climate deal a turning point for planet: Barack ObamaHowever at the same time, Obama noted that the Paris Agreement alone would not solve the climate crisis. "Even if we meet every target embo...
- The per capita question
Post-Copenhagen, Jairam Ramesh’s questioning of the concept of equity in world carbon space and the basis of emission reduction targets is ...