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  • Ind Joins High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People

    India has officially joined the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, which is an organization of more than 70 countries encouraging the adoption of the global goal to protect at least 30% of the world’s land and ocean by 2030. The 30x30 target of this group is a global target that aims to halt the accelerating loss of biodiversity (including flora and fauna) and protecting vital ecosystems.

  • Biogas upgrading technology employed for Thames Water project

    DMT Environmental Technology (DMT) will be providing the biogas upgrading technology for the first ever collaboration between Thames Water and SGN Commercial Services in the UK. SGN was awarded an eight-year framework, amounting to £70 million (€82 million) by Thames Water. They will also design, construct, operate and regulate biogas processing plants at Thames Water’s wastewater treatment facilities.

  • Clean Environment is a Human Right: UNHRC

    The UN Human Rights Council has declared access to a clean and healthy environment is an inalienable human right. This declaration was passed by UNHRC on October 8 while highlighting the global mitigation and adaptation measures against climate change. Along these lines, the UNHRC has also called upon nations to boost their abilities to promote a clean and green environment.

  • Clean Environment is a Human Right: UNHRC

    The UN Human Rights Council has declared access to a clean and healthy environment is an inalienable human right. This declaration was passed by UNHRC on October 8 while highlighting the global mitigation and adaptation measures against climate change. Along these lines, the UNHRC has also called upon nations to boost their abilities to promote a clean and green environment.

  • Bengaluru offers green rides; its first electric bus

    Bengaluru welcomed its first electric bus on Thursday, 30th September. Transport minister B Sriramulu inaugurated the 'green bus'. As a feeder service at Namma Metro station; which serve as connecting links from other areas to the central place in a city

  • Assam double-hit after COVID and the energy crisis

    The COVID-19 pandemic affected the country disastrously. Different sections of the economy were hit differently, but the most affected were without doubt, the BPL and lower middle class. The cities of Assam have the most number of families with annual income less than 5 lakh, and the cost of living has soared the most over there.

  • Are green crackers a safer alternative to regular ones?

    Since the announcement of the Delhi government of a strict ban on sale, purchase and usage of fire crackers, more states are stepping on the control of pollution this diwali season. The Assam Pollution Control Board (APCB), declared the allowance of 'green crackers' in a two-hour time period.

  • Air Quality Guidelines Revised by WHO

    WHO has tightened the Air Quality guidelines, for the first time since 2005. The new WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) provide a clear indication of the damage that air pollution inflicts on human health, now at even lower concentrations than previously understood. Air pollution causes about 7 million premature deaths each year.

  • Amidst India’s coal crisis, nuclear reactors struggle to provide promising results

    India’s leading position in world’s energy producers has been in a dilapidated state lately. With most of the power plants having just days worth of coal left, officials are pushing for alternative sources. Wind and solar sources are proving to be efficient replacements, but nuclear energy is also gaining attention.

  • A young environmentalist's journey to founding a water conservation NGO

    Garvita Gulhati is the twenty-one year old co-founder of a charity organization called ‘Why Waste?’. Based in Bangalore she also won the 'Global Changemaker' title in 2018. It is a youth-led organization based on water conservation. It came to life after learning that 14 million liters of water is wasted in India every year just from the amount people leave in cups in restaurants.