
According to the data issued by the Mercom India Research India witnessed a 21 percent increase in its solar energy capacity in the first quarter of 2022 as compared to Q4 of 2021. The report highlighted that the country’s year on year solar power installations spiked by 50 percent.

In an attempt to escalate the state’s climate action target and to increase the renewable energy capacity Maharashtra’s energy department signed an MoU worth Rs 50,000 crore with India’s Renewable energy giant ReNew power.

Coal India– after the coal shortage induced power crisis in India– is going to open one of the biggest coal mines in the country.

Bihar is going to become the world’s largest state to implement solar lighting project for street lights. BREDA (Bihar Renewable Energy Development Agency) said in a release that Mumbai based Lord’s Mark Business group is going to invest ₹900cr in Bihar for setting up solar street lights.

The central government’s National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is starting to gain some traction as significant efforts to preserve Ganga from contamination in Uttarakhand are announced by the government.

In a unique attempt to promote a green and sustainable environment a Mumbai based IAS officer and the Civic Chief at Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has successfully built a mini-forest by transforming 3 acres of dumping ground. Abhijit Bangar, the man behind this exquisite transformation adopted the Miywaki forest technique to achieve this feat.

Starting in 2019, Air Company had one aim– to turn carbon dioxide into useful products. Carbon dioxide accounts for about 79% of the greenhouse gases that human activities emit.

The Amazon rainforests in Brazil are considered to be the lungs of the Earth. They absorb 1.6 billion tonnes of CO2 annually , that’s 4% of global annual carbon emission by humans.

The global chip crisis is unlikely to affect India’s renewable energy drive, experts suggest. Although there are some issues with supply and availability of chips, it is unlikely to become very serious.

Scientists form the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre, Oxford University and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development have reported that the Australian rainforests are dying twice as fast as they were in the 1980s.