The government is committed towards combating climate change at the highest level through its several programmes and schemes, the Environment Ministry told Parliament on Friday. Responding to a query in the Lok Sabha on India’s preparedness to tackle climate change, Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo said several schemes have been initiated by the […]
A New Battery Could Be Key To Cutting Carbon Emissions, Slowing Climate Change
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Yet-Ming Chiang, professor of materials science and engineering at MIT, about why new battery technology is key to cutting carbon emissions and slowing climate change. All month, we’ve been talking about how technology can help slow climate change. And today, that brings us to batteries – not the kind that […]
New York Formalizes Renewables Targets with Aggressive Climate Plan
Lawmakers in the Empire State have swung behind Governor Andrew Cuomo’s ambitious plans for solar and offshore wind. New York was poised Wednesday to pass landmark legislation requiring a complete decarbonization of its electricity system by 2040, including ambitious nearer-term targets for offshore wind and solar, after the bill passed what has long been its […]
Comparing Presidential Candidates on Climate and Cleantech
On this week’s Energy Gang podcast, we look at how candidates are crafting climate and energy plans. It may be a couple election cycles late, but we’re finally getting a wave of climate plans from presidential candidates. The issue is now front and center in the Democratic primaries. We’ve spent the last week collecting the […]
Biden defends record on climate, says plan coming ‘very shortly’
WASHINGTON: Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday defended his environmental record and said he would release the “totality” of his climate change plan “very shortly,” after Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused him of not being aggressive enough on the issue. “She’ll find that nobody has been more consistent about taking on the environment and […]
An Unexpected Current That’s Remaking American Politics
New forms of electricity storage are making the grid more renewable and more reliable—and may change the politics of climate change. At the annual National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington this month, President Donald Trump made news with some curious remarks about wind power. What went viral was his untrue suggestion that the noise […]
PM Modi’s solar diplomacy
In the years since Paris, the world has changed — Prime Minister Modi has seized on the momentum. The Western world has often pointed fingers at India and China in the last couple of decades, often as a scapegoat, in relation to greenhouse gas emissions and its effects on global, catastrophic climate change. While the […]