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MP plant to help reduce CO2 emissions: LanxessBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 27, 2010
Chemical firm Lanxess India today said the company would be able to reduce about 95,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year following an investment of EUR 7 million for setting up a biomass fuel-based co-generation plant at its Nagda plant in Madhya Pradesh. "By utilising... Read more.. |
Obama's India visit will focus on action: U.S.By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 26, 2010
According to him, the U.S. has projected its bilateral trade with India to top $50 billion this year and grow exponentially in the next few years. "Between 2004 and 2008, two-way trade doubled to $43 billion. There was some drop in 2009 but the way ahead is encouraging."... Read more.. |
PricewaterhouseCoopers: Chopped carbon footprint by 20% in two yearsBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 25, 2010
Where do you start when your company demands a 20% reduction in its carbon footprint? At PricewaterhouseCoopers, it wasn't enough to just pursue high-profile projects, such as building the LEED Gold-certified data center that came online in January. It was just as... Read more.. |
Wipro develops unique solar product to revolutionise green energy spaceBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 25, 2010
The Azim Premji-led soaps to software firm Wipro, has now developed a hardware product that can improve the power generation in a solar plant by as much as 20%. Wipro says it's a first-of-its-kind product in the world. Wipro has already bagged two orders for the product and... Read more.. |
Calculating Commitment to the ClimateBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 25, 2010
There was a surge of optimism at the Copenhagen climate conference, when the U.S. secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, backed an international aid package worth hundreds of billions of dollars to help poor countries counter threats like rising seas and desertification... Read more.. |
India creates new court to try environmental casesBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 19, 2010
Polluters beware: India has created a tribunal to punish those who sully the forests or rivers or otherwise break its environmental laws — in the hopes of clearing a backlog of some 5,000 such cases languishing in a sluggish court system. India's judicial system is... Read more.. |
Pegasystems India gets carbon positive certificationBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 15, 2010
Pegasystems India, the Indian headquarters and R&D center of Cambridge based Pegasystems, a provider of business process management (BPM) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, has partnered with Haworth, designer and manufacture of adaptable workspaces to... Read more.. |
Suzlon floods with wind turbine ordersBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 15, 2010
Suzlon Energy Limited (SEL) (BOM:532667) today announced a series of fresh and repeat orders for wind turbines. Collectively, PSUs and small enterprises have recently awarded orders worth 168.5 MW (megawatt) of wind turbines to the company. In a statement issued today... Read more.. Subject Tags: Business , Suzlon Energy Limited |
Standing on Thin IceBy : Preeti Aggarwal, Oct 11, 2010
India has a prominent presence in the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) but we fail to realise that our country, which has the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar cap has no university offering a specialised programme in glaciology. And much... Read more.. |
Calling: More architects to Bengal with green building knowhowBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 11, 2010
Joining the world in fighting back global warming, the state government is emphasising on churning out more architects with proper knowledge and skills to build green buildings in Bengal. Last month, the Association for Development and Research on Sustainable Habitats... Read more.. |