In Indonesia, deforestation is intensifying disasters from severe weather and climate change31 Mar, 2024, 10.38 PM IST
EU countries to demand bloc does more to help farmers, draft statement saysDraft conclusions for an EU summit on 21-22 March, seen by Reuters, showed EU country leaders plan to ask the European Commission to work w...
12 Mar, 2024, 03.19 PM IST
India wary of EU proposal on labour and green violationsAfter the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and the European Union's deforestation law, India is keeping an eye on a proposed legis...
28 Jun, 2023, 12.13 AM IST
G7 energy, environment leaders haggle over climate strategyGroup of Seven (G-7) energy and environment ministers met in Sapporo to come to a consensus on the way forward in ending carbon emissions. ...
15 Apr, 2023, 08.38 AM IST
German group sues Meta alleging failure to curb threatsEnvironmental Action Germany (DUH) said in a statement that Meta had failed to shut down Facebook groups in which threats of violence were ...
22 Mar, 2023, 05.27 PM IST
Foreign Secretary suggests European states to avoid debt traps & build eco linkages“Europe and the Indo-Pacific regions are closely interlinked through strong trade and investment linkages. Developments in the Indo-Pacific...
21 Jan, 2022, 10.57 PM IST
Tesla's gigafactory electrifies California-Germany culture clashOnce running, the factory will produce 500,000 electric cars a year and generate 50-gigawatt hours (GWh) of battery capacity - more than an...
07 Oct, 2021, 12.28 PM IST
What's happening with Tesla's $7 billion German 'gigafactory'?Tesla has already pushed back the expected opening of it's German 'gigafactory' to late 2021. Yet the environmental agency in Brandenburg, ...
22 Jun, 2021, 11.13 AM IST
Joe Biden to return diverted border wall money, spend down restPresident Joe Biden suspended construction of the wall upon taking office while his administration reviewed the project. That angered Repub...
12 Jun, 2021, 02.25 PM IST
View: Inject some blood into India's anaemic small businesses?MSME units in India, on the other hand, have existed practically at subsistence level for decades. To move out of this morass would require...
19 Aug, 2020, 12.12 AM IST
A myth that sustainability for MSMEs cannot coexist with economic profitability: Pradeep Mehta, CUTSWe can take clues from Germany, where MSMEs are the prime economic actors for some time now, and they comply with all the sustainability ru...
25 Feb, 2020, 12.38 PM IST
India may adopt Hong Kong convention for green ship recyclingThe government plans to nearly double India’s ship-recycling capacity by 2024 to about nine MnGT.
15 Aug, 2019, 11.09 PM IST
India wins re-election to UN organ on economic, social issuesIndia's re-election to ECOSOC comes just a day after leading expert on international law Neeru Chadha won a crucial election to the Law of ...
18 Jun, 2017, 12.36 PM IST
- Vinod Khosla among Forbes' 'greenest billionaires'
India-born Khosla has achieved corporate success through investment in environmental causes. Power List of Top 100 CEOs | Caricatures of th...
25 Apr, 2010, 07.00 PM IST
- Greenpeace: Eliminate e-waste from products
Greenpeace called on the world's electronics companies on Tuesday to eliminate hazardous chemicals from their products, saying toxic electr...
05 Aug, 2008, 10.15 PM IST
- 'Germany greenest country in the world'
A British Petroleum global energy report states the country managed to slash energy use by 5.6 per cent in 2007.
21 Jun, 2008, 04.13 PM IST
- Germany is world's greenest country: Report
Germany has been named the world's greenest country in a global energy report, days after the government passed a new round of environmenta...
21 Jun, 2008, 03.30 PM IST