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Supply chains play crucial role in cutting carbon emissions

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 7, 2016

The recently concluded climate change conference in Paris called on corporate houses to reduce their carbon emissions from their supply chain.

Until now, far too many companies have focused only on carbon emissions from their corporate offices and retail spaces. In...

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‘Rapid warming of Indian Ocean can turn it into an ecological desert’

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 28, 2015

Rapid warming of the Indian Ocean may potentially turn this biologically productive region into an ecological desert, according to a new study.

Authored by Roxy Mathew Koll, scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, and others, the study has been...

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Goldman Sachs to launch climate-focused ETF

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 16, 2015

Goldman Sachs Group Inc said in a filing on Monday it would launch a new climate-focused index-tracking exchange-traded fund (ETF).

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Global biomass pellet market to grow at CAGR 11.1%

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 16, 2015
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Subject Tags: Biomass , Climate Change

Climate change: Odisha seeks collaboration with US

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 16, 2015

The Odisha government on Monday sought collaboration with the US industrial sector and explore partnership with the country in various adaptation and mitigation...

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COP21: PM Narendra Modi, world leaders hail Paris deal, CSE’s Sunita Narain calls it weak

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 14, 2015

World leaders on Sunday welcomed the climate deal to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius with Prime Minister Narendra Modi describing it as a victory of "climate justice" while...

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Subject Tags: Climate Change , COP 21

COP21 Slouching Toward Climate Plan Wednesday AM

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 10, 2015

Laurent Fabius, COP21 president and France’s foreign minister, has just released version 1 of a draft text on COP21 agenda item 4 (b)—the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (decision 1/CP.17) at 3:00PM GMT. Read the text...

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Global Carbon Emissions Could Stall In 2015

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 9, 2015

Only a few weeks after it was revealed that carbon emissions nearly stalled in 2014, new figures suggest carbon emissions could stall in 2015.

New figures from researchers at the University of East Anglia and the Global Carbon Project suggest that global carbon...

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Energy Efficiency Top Weapon In Fight Against Climate Change

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 8, 2015

One might think – after years of focus on global warming – that all the easy measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions had been taken. And yet, as governments attend the 21st annual conference on climate change (COP21), some surprisingly low-hanging fruit remains.

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Lima-Paris Action Agenda calls for cutting short-lived climate pollutants

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 7, 2015

At COP 21, governments and industry leaders in the Climate and Clean Air Coalition committed to further essential advances in reducing short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) that have a global warming potential many times that of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

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