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Captive Power Plants in India - Harnessing the PotentialBy : sustainabilityo..., Apr 30, 2010
Captive power Plants are developed to cater the industrial demand in the scenario where the electricity supplied by the utilities is short in supply or is of bad quality. Captive plants over the years have been evolved from plants owned by single promoter to group... Read more.. |
Inexpensive, Simplistic Clean Coal Technology to clean air in ChinaBy : sustainabilityo..., Apr 30, 2010
India / China and rest of Asia has millions of small-scale industrial boilers. Many of Asia's coal fired boilers are very dirty and operate inefficiently. Asia's countless coal fired industrial and heating boilers consume vast quantities of coal and heavily pollute the air... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology |
UN report pushes for energy access and efficiencyBy : sustainabilityo..., Apr 29, 2010
UNITED NATIONS, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Increasing access to clean energy and improving its efficiency will be vital to both enhancing global prosperity and combating climate change, according to a report issued here Wednesday by an advisory group of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-... Read more.. |
Inventor Honored for Technology That Improves Access to Clean Water, Healthcare and Business Development in Rural IndiaBy : sustainabilityo..., Apr 29, 2010
Eighty percent of health problems and five million deaths per year in developing countries are linked to inadequate water and sanitation according to the World Water Development Report 2009. This, coupled with the lack of medical attention for rural villagers, highlights a... Read more.. |
Updated Biogas Technology To Save Lives From Indoor Air PollutionBy : sustainabilityo..., Apr 29, 2010
A new biogas technology will now be able to save the lives of many people who die due to indoor air pollution by cooking with wood, dung, coal and crop waste. Justin Henriques, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Virginia... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology |
Bharatbook : Policies Driving the Growth of Carbon Trading MarketsBy : sustainabilityo..., Apr 29, 2010
Bharatbook added a new report on "Global Carbon Policy Handbook 2010 - Policies Driving the Growth of Carbon Trading Markets" which gives the investment growth in Carbon Trading Markets. Global Carbon Policy Handbook 2010 - Policies Driving the Growth of Carbon Trading... Read more.. |
Climate change has effect on usBy : sustainabilityo..., Apr 28, 2010
How was your Earth Day? What would Mother Earth say about it? On April 13, 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, consisting of nearly 1,000 scientists from 74 countries, issued its long-awaited report. The studies found that global warming, almost... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology |
Climate change indicators show that climate change is happeningBy : sustainabilityo..., Apr 28, 2010
Climate deniers will just have to grit their teeth over the latest report from the EPA showing that climate change is having a current, measurable effect on the Earth. While this has been news for a while, the EPA’s Climate Change Indicators report, released Tuesday,... Read more.. |
Technology Transfer, Policy and Climate Change: Goal 2020 By : Roselin Dey, Apr 27, 2010
In context of technology transfer as a key focus of discussion between nations post Copenhagen, on April 20th, India Carbon Outlook convened a roundtable of multilateral investors, trade commissioners, policy thinktanks and corporates to discuss the global prototypes and... Read more.. Subject Tags: Social Issues , Technology |
Will we switch to gas made from human waste? -By : sustainabilityo..., Apr 27, 2010
As the UK faces the prospect of North Sea gas running out, could supply problems be eased by using gas made from human waste? For most people the waste they eject from their bodies is something they don't bother thinking about once they've shut the toilet door behind them.... Read more.. |