More bodies were found in the rubble of demolished buildings on Tuesday, bringing the overall death toll from a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and numerous aftershocks to more than 7,700. Thousands of injuries had also been reported in earthquake-stricken Turkey and Syria, where rescue teams were forced to sift through the rubble. Nations are rushing to provide aid; the first shipment of supplies from India has already arrived at an airport in the nearby city of Adana.
Andhra Pradesh has been asked to make significant efforts to deepen the Perform, Achieve, and Trade (PAT) Scheme by identifying new energy-intensive industries and sectors for accelerated adoption of efficient and low-carbon technologies by the Union Ministry of Power-led Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).
In an effort to achieve carbon neutrality by the middle of the century, the European Union is pushing to increase the use of renewable energy, but this effort has been slowed down by a disagreement over hydrogen's role in the transition.
Linde Engineering received a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Equinor for the H2H Saltend low-carbon hydrogen production facility. Additionally, Equinor gave Linde's company, BOC, a contract for operation and maintenance services.
As part of the tech giant's "New Environmental Strategy," a comprehensive effort to combat climate change, Samsung Electronics will implement a low-carbon diet at its in-house restaurants, the company announced on Sunday. At its corporate headquarters in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, starting in February, Samsung will introduce PlanEat Choice, a food corner (in the cafeteria) composed of low-carbon meals.
Tesco revealed this week that it had collaborated with five of its biggest field vegetable suppliers to develop the commercial roll-out of low-carbon fertilizer. The retailer has highlighted eight low-carbon fertilizer choices for the 2023 growing season, which will be used on 1,300 hectares. Tesco claims that increasing this to 4,000 hectares by 2024 will result in a 20% reduction in emissions after just one year.
An offtake agreement for the supply of more than 200 megawatts of low-carbon hydrogen has been signed by Vertex Hydrogen and Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE), according to a press release on January 26.
In her first address to the country on the eve of Republic Day, President Droupadi Murmu said the G20 is the ideal forum to discuss and find solutions to the
According to a recent study by agricultural economists and scientists at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Punjab's maize and cotton yields will decrease by 13% and 11%, respectively, as a result of climate change by 2050. About 12% of the nation's total cereal production is produced in Punjab.
Rystad Energy research predicts that spending on low-carbon projects will increase by $60 billion this year, or 10% more than in 2022. Although infrastructure funding for hydrogen and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) will also see a considerable increase, wind energy advancements will be a key contributor to this rise. Cost-conscious developers are tightening their purse strings after two years of increasing costs, limiting the growth in total spending from prior years, which witnessed gains of 20% a year on average.
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