Germany is under great diplomatic pressure from the members of the EU, the US and other NATO countries to reduce its Russian oil consumption after Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Germany’s energy demands were met mostly by Russian oil and coal supply, it has one of the largest shares of Russian energy imports of all EU countries, and it is the largest European economy.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finally released the third part of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change on 4th April 2022. The report highlighted the urgent need to take action to mitigate climate change impacts.
The State Government of Maharashtra has announced that they will partner with the petrol companies for the installation of EV charging points on the premises. Dr Nitin Raut, New and Renewable Energy Minister of Maharashtra has officiated the announcement during the Pune Alternate Fuel Conclave 2022.
Ahmedabad to have one of a kind 3D energy mapping project funded by the central government to calculate the total energy consumed by the households and industrial buildings for cooling, lighting and other uses.
According to a report of the Global Footprint Network (GFN), humanity has yet again made use of all the biological resources that the planet Earth regenerates all along a year.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced that they are going to set up solar-powered light poles instead of the traditional electric poles in an attempt to save electricity in the state.
IPCC is all set to release its third climate change report today. This will be the third publication from the IPCC and this key report will highlight the mitigation aspect as they have already highlighted the causes and impacts of climate change in their first and second publications.
Drillmec, a Piacenza based Oil and Gas company , a part of Indian infrastructure giant MEIL group on Friday in a press report said, that their hydrogen production would be through advanced technologies which would include electrolysis, pyrolysis and through CO2 capture and storage systems. It further added that the board has set an approval for the investment of over 35 million euros in clean energy transition.
Last year at the COP26, the Indian Prime Minister said that India will achieve its target of 500 gigawatts of renewable energy by the year 2030. India is set to miss the renewable energy target that it had set for itself in 2015, which was 170 gigawatts by 2022 and the country could fall short by about 36%.
In a recent study, it has been found that the cooling effect forests and trees have on the planet are a result of a much more complex process than just carbon sequestration. The tropical forests store one third of the world's carbon, but apart from that they are also large containers of moisture, they keep their surroundings cool, they create more clouds which apart from giving rain provide cover from Sun’s heat radiation.