
Tata Power said the MoU was signed on Thursday that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Real Estate Development Council ( NAREDCO ) to install up to 5,000 EV charging points across its members’ developer properties in Maharashtra in the presence of Aaditya Thackeray, Minister of Tourism & Environment.

India ranks a lowly 120 among 165 countries in its progress towards achieving all 17 sustainable development goals, lower than SAARC counterparts Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. It needs around $60 billion to achieve its 450 GW sustainable energy target by the year 2030.

A new study published in Nature Journal revealed that the world could witness more virus outbreaks like COVID by 2070 due to the impacts of climate change. The researchers mentioned that the rise in global temperature is changing the wildlife ecosystem and could lead to the migration of several species in the coming 70 years.

India is witnessing record-breaking heat waves this year which was never seen before. The temperature has skyrocketed as the states such as Delhi, UP, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan have reported 45 degrees celsius in the month of April.

A massive fire broke out at the garbage landfill at Delhi’s Bhalswa on Tuesday. This is one of the largest landfills and Delhi and covers around 500 acres of land. Garbage dumping at the Bhalswa landfill was started in 1994 and the estimated current weight of the waste is about 80 lakh tonnes.

MOL group, an international integrated oil and gas & petrochemical consumer retails company of Hungary which has come together with Plug Power, a leading supplier of turnkey hydrogen solutions to establish one of Europe’s largest green hydrogen production facilities at the MOL’s refinery in Danube, Szazhalombatta.

An unprecedented heat wave is sweeping the Indian subcontinent, large portions of Indian northern plains, and some areas of Pakistan are experiencing temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius since mid-April. It is affecting over a billion people.

The Indian power ministry has proposed for a credit guarantee fund and a renewable energy bank to help countries transitioning from fossil fuel economy to more sustainable mode. Power minister Raj Kumar Singh and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at the headquarters of the International Solar Alliance in Gurugram stressed the importance of accelerating the transition to renewable energy.

Putting a price on carbon is seen to be an effective measure against reckless burning of fossil fuel. Pennsylvania became the first state in the United States to adopt a carbon pricing mechanism to address climate change.

The Global Assessment Report (GAR2022) released by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) revealed an alerting possibility that the world could face about 560 disaster events annually which is 1.5 per day by 2030.