On Wednesday night a bipartisan UK Parliament passed an extraordinary measure: a national declaration of an environment and climate emergency. London: The UK is the first national government to declare an environmental and climate emergency. The decision marks a renewed sense of urgency in tackling climate change, following a visit to Parliament by teenage activist […]
Green jobs: To reduce carbon footprints and achieve targets of Paris climate accord
The whole new concept of ‘green jobs’ aims to reduce carbon footprints in the ecosystem and minimize human extracting traditional fuels from nature. As the world faces rising effects of climate change which have endangered the survival of the human race on earth, there is a need to produce more ‘green jobs’ which can deteriorate […]
Can China keep its climate promises and source 20% energy from renewables by 2030?
Tripling the share of non-fossil fuels will require a major overhaul of China’s recalcitrant power sector and the full deployment of a fledgling emissions trading system, they said in the journal Nature Communications Paris: China can easily meet its Paris climate pledge to peak its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, but sourcing 20 per cent […]
AfDB President expected to pitch for promotion of renewable energies in OPS 2019
The Bank’s President will be actively involved in high-level conversations, sectoral deep dives and coalition building for climate and environmental action in Africa. The President of the African Development Bank Dr Akinwumi Adesina, will lead a delegation to the One Planet Summit (OPS 2019), which will take place in Nairobi, Kenya on 14 March 2019 […]
Wind-solar hybrid systems may raise project IRR by upto 10 Percent
Hybridisation should not only be a means if it has to serve an end purpose. Real hybridisation is when renewable energy sets higher standard for itself in terms of scheduled delivery, dispatchability write Sunil Dayal and Navdeep Gupta Encapsulating the idea of sustainable development more than seven decades ago, the then permanent representative of India […]