Kashmir's main glacier "melting at alarming speed"SRINAGAR, India, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Indian Kashmir's biggest glacier, which feeds the region's main river, is melting faster than other Himalayas glaciers, threatening the water supply of tens of thousands of people, a new report warned on Monday. Experts say rising temperatures are rapidly shrinking Himalayan glaciers, underscoring the effects of climate change that has caused temperatures in the mountainous region to rise by about 1.1 degrees Celsius in the past 100 years. The biggest glacier in Indian Kashmir, the Kolahoi glacier spread over just a little above 11 sq km (4... Read more.. Date : Oct 12
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IEA Calls for Fast Action on Carbon Storage in Developing WorldDeveloping countries need more than 2,000 carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) plants by midcentury to stave off catastrophic global warming, an International Energy Agency report out today will say. The report, set to be released at the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum in London, calls for 100 large-scale, fully deployed CCS plants around the world in the next decade and 3,400 by 2050. With emissions swiftly rising in developing countries, at least 65 percent of those will have to be built in nations still working toward industrialization, said Thomas Kerr, a senior IEA... Read more.. Date : Oct 12
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Bill McKibben tells why 350 is a crucial numberHe has profiled low-emissions lifestyles in Brazil and India. He has challenged the conventional goal of relentless economic growth. He has championed the cause of local food and detailed his experiences as a Vermont localvore.A scholar in residence at Middlebury College, McKibben is also an activist: Two years ago he founded Step It Up, which staged 1,400 global-warming demonstrations in a single day in April in an effort to press Congress to act on limiting emissions.As a follow-up he has founded another organization with a wider scope -- the world -- and a more sharply focused message... Read more.. Date : Oct 12
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Rate Of Climate Change Over The Next Century Could Be Higher Than ...Scientists have done a new experiment and found that the rate of climate change over the next century could be higher than previously anticipated. The results of the experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research are published in the current issue of Biogeosciences. Date : Oct 12
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Environmental Changes That may Take Place Over the Next CenturyThe way in which increasing CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations may affect trees and water and carbon cycles over the next 100 years has been explored in a new study. Scientists nowadays face the problem of predicting how each component of our complex ecosystem will respond to the many environmental changes sweeping the globe. Date : Oct 12
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Soros to Invest $1 Billion in Clean Energy, Form Advisory Group< Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire George Soros, looking to address the “political problem” of climate change, said he will invest $1 billion in clean-energy technology and donate $100 million to an environmental advisory group to aid policymakers.... Read more.. Date : Oct 11
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$10 trillion cleantech plan fails to generate excitementA $10 trillion investment is being called for in everything from energy efficiency and biofuels to nuclear power between 2010 and 2030 to lower carbon dioxide emissions and avoid extreme climate change. But it's something those in the sector are already very well aware of. In fact, the International Energy Agency report released this week only brings to the forefront the urgency of the global... Read more.. Date : Oct 10 Source: Cleantech Group
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IEA Sends Message to Copenhagen Delegates: $10 tn Needed to Combat Climate ChangeThe IEA released an early version of its yearly World Energy Outlook that reveals a $10 trillion investment is needed in order to combat climate change. The agency released the excerpted version of the report in an effort to inform the debate leading up to climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December Massive investment in clean energy technology, to the tune of approximately $10 trillion over the next two decades, is needed to combat climate change, according to the International Energy Agency's... Read more.. Date : Oct 10 Source: Breakthrough Institute
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State of the World 2009 Launches in IndiaWorldwatch has just launched its State of the World 2009 Report in India. Into a Warming World is the 26th edition of the State of the World series, which since its inception has functioned as a platform to discuss some of the most pressing sustainability issues of the day. “State of the World 2009 is a research masterpiece’, said Alex Steffen, Executive Editor of Worldchanging.com, ”the single most... Read more.. Date : Oct 10 Source: World Watch Institute
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Sourabh Sen conferred Udyog Rattan AwardNew Delhi Known for making the promise of renewable resources a reality in India and Africa, Sourabh Sen, Co-Chairman of Astonfield Renewable Resources Ltd. has been conferred with the Udyog Rattan Award and his company Astonfield has been awarded ... Date : Oct 9
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New technique could lead to more efficient, cheaper solar cells< Washington, October 9 (ANI): University of Florida (UF) chemists have pioneered a method to tease out promising molecular structures for capturing energy, a step that could speed the development of more efficient, cheaper solar cells. "This gives us a new way of studying light-matter interactions," said Valeria Kleiman, a UF associate professor of chemistry.
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No deal on crucial issues as UN climate talks end<BANGKOK (AP) - The United States was heavily criticized Friday at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok for failing to offer emission cuts or financing for developing countries — both considered crucial to reaching a global warming pact this year.The Bangkok talks ended just as it was announced that President Barack Obama had won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, for among other things strengthening the U.S. role in combatting climate change. U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said he hoped the award would spur progress when the U.S. delegation arrives in Copenhagen in December for crucial climate... Read more.. Date : Oct 9
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Low-carbon future is world’s only optionThe UN climate change conference, to be held in Copenhagen in December, should provide the climax to two years of international negotiations over a new global treaty aimed at addressing the causes and consequences of greenhouse-gas emissions. A ... Date : Oct 9
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Trimming a telco’s energy bill and its carbon footprinteCO-NET combines Wipro Infotech’s proprietary network energy diagnostic tools and its end-to-end network energy operations management framework to reduce a telco’s energy footprint and its carbon emissions says Akhtar Pasha Go green is a theme ... Date : Oct 9
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ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Wealth From Waste With Bio-DigestersTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Kerala, Jun 19 (IPS/IFEJ) - Saji Das foresees a time when people in this state, at the southern tip of the Indian peninsula, will compete to get at food waste and other rotting organic rubbish rather than holding their noses and ... Date : Oct 9
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China comes out in public support of Indian idea in climate talks"Each person is entitled to his fair share of global atmospheric space," China's chief climate negotiator Yu Qingtai said Wednesday, publicly placing for the first time Chinese support to this concept formulated by India's Prime Minister Manmohan ... Date : Oct 7
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VNL launches first commercial solar-powered GSM networkGeneva: Indian telecom equipment maker Vihaan Networks Limited on Wednesday announced the first commercial deployment of solar-powered GSM system, a step that could increase competition for MNCs like Ericsson and Nokia-Siemens. The solar-powered ... Date : Oct 7
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NCR introduces India’s first ‘No Envelope’ multi-function ATM with Intelligent cash deposit and recycling capabilitiesThe NCR SelfServ32 maximises deposit and recycling capacity and help financial institutions rollout revenue generating services MUMBAI, India — NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today unveiled its next-generation NCR SelfServ 32 automatic teller machine (ATM).This ATM is India’s first ‘No Envelope’ Multi Function Intelligent Deposit ATM. With dedicated intelligent cash deposit and recycling functionality, the NCR SelfServ 32 helps financial institutions to reduce operating costs, improve customer ser Date : Oct 7
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Natural gas to play key role in cutting CO2 - studyBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Global natural gas production will need to grow by 70 percent if the world is to start reducing carbon dioxide emissions quickly enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a study released on Tuesday ... Date : Oct 7
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Market policies killing solar powerClimate negotiations were high on Kevin Rudd’s agenda during his visit to the US for the G20 meeting. Rudd tried to position himself as the global face of action, preparing his own compromise proposal to try to rescue negotiations leading up to the Copenhagen summit in December. Chairing a panel at the UN, Rudd declared there was “clear support” for a “grand bargain” between nations on climate change. But the advanced economies of Australia, the US and Europe are insisting that China and Ind Date : Oct 7
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India plans crores on 'solar mission'New Delhi: Ahead of the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen at the yearend, the Indian government is likely to announce that 15% of its new energy capacity addition would be from renewable resources by 2020, according to a ... Date : Oct 7
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Climate Change and Water Scarcity Will Create Global Security Concerns‘We have very little time,’ says Nobel winnerWater scarcity as a result of climate change will create far-reaching global security concerns, says Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.Pachauri spoke this morning at the 2009 Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN.“At one level the world’s water is like the world’s wealth. Globally, there is more than enough to go round. The problem is Date : Oct 7
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New Delhi recycles its roadsTelcon Ecoroad Resurfaces has launched a Rs 37 crore ($7.8 million) project in New Delhi to recover and re-use asphalt to make new roads. The Delhi government tapped Telcon and the Central Road Research Institute for the 42-kilometer (26.1-mile) paving project, which is to be completed by June 2010. In a typical resurfacing project, a layer of asphalt is deposited on the existing road. Telcon is using a road... Read more.. Date : Oct 7 Source: Cleantech Group
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Global economic crisis to slash carbon emissions: IEAThe global economic crisis will slash carbon emissions in 2009, opening a narrow opportunity to take decisive action on global warming, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. The predicted three percent fall in energy-related CO2 pollution ... Date : Oct 7
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BITS – Pilani based start-up launches Green Citizens Network – www.greencitizens.netOctober 6th, 2009firstcarbon The Green Citizens Network: www.greencitizens.net has officially been launched. It’s an initiative by First Carbon (www.firstcarbon.org), a BITS – Pilani based consultancy start-up providing climate change advisory services to its clients.GreenCitizens.net is a first of its kind Green Social Networking Platform on the World Wide Web. It is started with an aim to exhort individuals to turn into what they call, Green Citizens. The website is built on three principles w Date : Oct 7
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