
The minister of Environment & Climate Change of Maharashtra Aaditya Thackeray announced that the state is all set to host the country’s first largest exhibition of electrical vehicles (EVs) & a conference on alternative fuels such as hydrogen fuels & Biofuel starting from the 2nd April 2022. The event will take place in Pune for four days with an attempt to promote the ‘New Mobility for cleaner, greener India’ motive.

Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) a Hyderabad based firm deals in environment management solutions have rebranded itself as Re Sustainability Ltd and announced to invest about Rs 5,000 crore over the next three years in doubling its waste management capacities.

The recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia has made western countries rethink their dependency on Russian oil and fossil fuel in general. The EU gets roughly 40% of its gas from Russia: According to figures from the research group Transport & Environment, this dependence costs around $118m a day.

Researchers have found that European birds such as garden warblers, are having a quarter fewer chicks, which has huge implications for the species. Chiffchaffs are laying their eggs 12 days earlier. Some birds are decreasing in size, while others, such as redstarts, are getting larger.

Patricia Espinosa is all set to hang up her shoes as the UN climate chief and as her farewell is coming near she has warned the world that the Russia-Ukraine war must not divert leaders from the escalating climate crisis. While talking to Reuters she said, “even as the war is causing so much suffering, global warming remains the most rapidly growing threat to human species on the planet".

In the UK, a government-sponsored innovation programme has successfully produced a new low-carbon cement, which has the potential to cut down the carbon emissions up to 60 per cent as compared to the emissions of the leading cement maker in the UK.

The current report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on 28th February 2022, has warned of multiple disasters in the next twenty years even if necessary actions are implemented for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Taking inspiration from South Korea, Anand Mahindra, the Indian billionare businessman and chairman of the Mahindra group, proposed installing solar panels over a cycling lane that runs between expressways.

The recent report published by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has cautioned that the water resources near river basins of Amu Darya, Indus, Ganges and the interstate Sabarmati river basin in India could face extreme water scarcity due to the rising effects of climate change.

The recent dust storms witnessed by Mumbai in the month of January & February which has worsened the air quality of the city is now being identified as the effects of human-induced activity, global warming & climate change.