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Cadila, Inox Wind to invest Rs. 800 crore in Madhya Pradesh

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 17, 2014

Two major companies, Cadila and Inox Wind, have drawn up plans to make big investments in Madhya Pradesh. Cadila, which plans to invest about Rs. 500 crore to set up a pharmaceutical unit in the newly developed industrial area in Jhabua district, has been allocated 95-acre...

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Why The U.S.-China CO2 Deal Is An Energy, Climate, And Political Gamechanger

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 17, 2014

The historic new U.S.-China climate deal changes the trajectory of global carbon pollution emissions, greatly boosting the chances for a global deal in Paris in 2015. The deal would keep, cumulatively, some 640 billion tons of CO2 emissions out of the air this century,...

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Fossil fuel subsidies dig world into economic, environmental hole

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 14, 2014

In the same week that a new study found that G20 nations, including Australia, were providing $US88 billion ($A102 billion) a year in subsidies just for fossil fuel exploration, another report – this time from the highly conservative International Energy Agency – has put a...

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Subject Tags: energy , oil , research , subsidy

India: low carbon energy transition could free up US$600 billion in investment capacity

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 14, 2014

New analysis by Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) demonstrates that, with the right policies, India’s transition to a low carbon energy system could free up significant financial capacity over the next 20 years to invest in better development and economic growth.
 
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India’s first net zero energy building

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 13, 2014

It’s India’s first net zero energy building that has been constructed with adoption of solar passive design and energy-efficient building materials.
 
Functional since a year, a tour of the Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, a building under the Central Government, was...

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India Must Spend $250B by 2019 to Meet Its Power Needs

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 12, 2014

If India is going to provide power to its more than 1 billion people over the next five years, it will need to invest about $250 billion during that time, according to Reuters. The country’s power minister, Piyush Goyal, speaking at the World Economic Forum conference in New...

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Collaboration to Transform Logistics: From Cost-to-country (CTC) to Benefit-to Country (BTC)

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 5, 2014

LOGISTICS SECTOR: HIGH CTC 

Contrary to popular perception, costs of transporting goods from production sites to the end consumer are significant compared to producing them. The logistics sector costs accounted for 14% India’s GDP and amounted to...

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Govt ropes in states to meet 24x7 power goal in 5 years

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 5, 2014

The Centre has prepared a detailed roadmap in consultation with states to make India “diesel generator and inverter free” in the next five years, and fulfill the Narendra Modi government’s promise to provide 24x7 power to every home, factory and farm and put the country back...

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Subject Tags: energy , India , policy , World Bank

Dire implications of new climate report test panel's capacity for consensus

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 5, 2014

Most reporters who have written about Sunday's global-warming update from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seem to agree that it was the loudest, or the sternest, or the scariest warning in a series stretching back to 1990. Which may explain why something funny...

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Ground-breaking Indian study benchmarks Pongamia Biodiesel 2030 pricing

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 3, 2014

Ground-breaking Indian research on the viability of Pongamia Biodiesel has today been released titled "PONGAMIA BIODIESEL 2030: Projecting a Path for Permanent Progress & Prosperity, at the culmination of almost three years of work by The Advanced Biofuel Center (CJP).The...

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