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'Driven by China and India, global Co2 to reach record high'

By : Sustainability ..., Dec 4, 2012
Driven by China and India and seemingly unaffected by an economic slowdown, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will reach a record high in 2012, according to new figures made public on Sunday.
 
Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels - mainly...
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India must adopt norms for LED lighting to save energy: Frost & Sullivan

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 30, 2012

India should adopt mandatory norms of energy efficiency for new buildings, incentive support for energy-efficient projects, have integrated lighting management systems for street lighting and phase out energy-guzzling lighting products to trigger an energy-efficiency...

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Subject Tags: energy , India , Social Issues

India to witness 89 GW of installed wind power by 2020

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 29, 2012

India is expected to have 89 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind power capacity by 2020 and attract $16.5 billion annual investment according to India’s Wind Energy Outlook 2012. This would hypothetically help prevent the emission of 131 million tonnes of carbon dioxide...

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Subject Tags: India

India, China join hands for clean technologies

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 27, 2012

Even as battlelines are drawn between developed and the developing world for Doha climate talks, India and China --- key allies at global climate negotiations --- on Monday agreed to collaborate on clean technologies and finding solutions to their environmental problems....

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Subject Tags: India

BlackRock-Backed Mytrah Trips on Policy Vacuum: Corporate India

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 26, 2012

Wind-turbine installations in India will plummet this year as lenders shun projects amid a policy vacuum in the third-biggest market for the machines, according to BlackRock Inc.-backed Mytrah Energy Ltd. (MYT)

The country may install as little as 1,500 megawatts of...

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India's peak demand and power needs rising continuously

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 25, 2012

 

The demand for electricity in India when its consumption is at the maximum - the peak demand - as well as the country's energy requirement have been rising continuously. 

There was a 6.3 percent jump in the peak demand in the country in 2011-12 over the...

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Subject Tags: India

Making waste management a sport in India

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 24, 2012

In a country notorious for the inability to deal with the waste it generates, municipal officials in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are now resorting to making waste management a competitive sport, in their bid to cajole the entire nation to clean up....

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Subject Tags: India

Suzlon Energy Wins 40 Megawatts of Wind-Turbine Orders in India

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 23, 2012

Suzlon Energy Ltd. (SUEL), India’s biggest wind-turbine maker, said it won two local orders for 40 megawatts of machines.

Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (GSFC) will buy 14 units of 2.1-megawatt turbines for a wind farm in Kutch in the western state of...

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IFC may lend $34.3M to SEI Solar, $40M to PE-backed PTC India Financial Services

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 20, 2012

SEI Solar is majority owned by a South Korean arm of China’s CHINT Solar (Zhejiang) Co; IFC had last year also lent $50M to PTC India Financial Services.

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank, is ramping up its...

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Renewable energy sector to create 24 lakh jobs in India

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 20, 2012

When most of the youngsters are worried about their future and trying their best to get a job in any industry, here is good news for them.

Launching a new report titled Indian Energy [R]evolution, Greenpeace, a non-governmental environmental organization, said...

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Subject Tags: India