The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
After two spells of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘odd-even’ experiment—odd-numbered cars were allowed to ply on odd-dates—and even the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) ban on 2,000cc+ diesel vehicles failed to fix Delhi’s pollution, it is just as well that NGT has asked Kejriwal to meet with other regulatory bodies …
India's participation in a global agreement on climate change will reduce the country's greenhouse gases equal to closing one-sixth of its thermal power stations over the next 35 years, according to an IndiaSpend calculation, based on carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions from thermal power stations in 2012. India's participation in a global …
A two-year old study released in 2015 by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), (a well-respected non-profit public interest research and advocacy organization in New Delhi) concluded that NTPC, India's largest power producing Coal Company was way below the prevailing standards across various parameters. The study, which analyzed 47 …
Climate experts and environmentalists from across the globe not only welcomed the HFCs phase down deal, reached at Kigali in Rwanda on Saturday, but also singled out India for its exemplary role of showing much needed flexibility and leadership during the gruelling rounds of negotiations. India had initially proposed a …
In a landmark step to combat climate change, about 200 nations, including India, today struck a legally-binding deal after intense negotiations to phase down climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons that have global warming potential thousand times more than carbon dioxide. Negotiators and policymakers held meetings all through the night, intensely deliberating to iron …
The amendment will allow the use of ozone-saving Montreal Protocol to phase-out HFCs, a set of 19 gases in the hydroflurocarbon family that are used extensively in the air-conditioning and refrigeration industry. Delivering the second major international agreement in less than a year to fight climate change, over 190 countries …
Stepping up its climate action voluntarily, India on Thursday made it mandatory for manufacturing companies to control emission of the climate-damaging refrigerant through technological intervention and incineration. The move was announced on the day when ongoing negotiations to fix a time-line for global phase down of the hydro-fluorocarbons (HFCs) entered …
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday reached Kigali in Rwanda where he will attend the 28th Montreal Protocol meeting on the last day on Friday. "US Secretary of State John Kerry will aim to arrive at strong amendments to the Montreal Protocol to go for climate-friendly cooling system …
Winter is here when pollution levels are again expected to rise. DNA takes a look at Delhi Government's experiment with environment and whether it helped bring down the pollution levels. From the recent odd-even road rationing scheme started by the AAP government to the ban on diesel vehicles older than …
Negotiations to amend the Montreal Protocol to phase-down the climate-damaging refrigerant HFCs entered a critical stage on Wednesday as nearly 40 ministers, including India's environment minister Anil Madhav Dave, joined it in Kigali, Rwanda as part of high-level discussions. Though it has almost become certain that the countries will arrive …
China is the single most important factor in determining climate benefits with the phasing out of heat-trapping organic compounds -- hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) -- and replacing them with climate-friendly alternatives, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said here on Wednesday. HFCs are super greenhouse gases used in refrigeration and air-conditioning. …
Supporting India’s proposal of advancing its baseline to 2024-26 for phasing down Hydrofluorocarbons, a leading advocacy group from the country today said the flexibility shown by India at the Conference on Montreal Protocol would help the world double its climate benefits. As talks by nearly 200 nations progressing in Rwandan …
New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released this analysis at Montreal Protocol meet in Kigali to support India’s proposal as general consensus seems to be emerging within the A5 parties (developing nations) to have a dual baseline for climate damaging gas Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Is quibbling over the 2020-22/ …
India had earlier proposed baseline for developing countries as average consumption of HFCs in year 2028, 2029 and 2030 and Freeze year of 2031. India has come up with a surprise proposal to increase the ambition of developed and developing countries to tackle the menace of Hydroflurocarbons, amid intense efforts …
KHANNA: Even as Khanna has achieved the dubious distinction of being among the world's 20 most polluted cities in the world, the recent data of the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) suggests some fall in the air pollution levels in this industrial city, though they continue to be higher than …
New Delhi: With winter approaching, Delhi's pollution woes are about to return, environmentalists have warned, calling for reinstating traffic restrictions, curbs on coal-fuelled power plants and construction projects. "We are approaching the big winter problem and pollution is going to pick up rapidly now," Anumita Roy Chawdhary, Executive Editor of …
Cost of transition for India could go up to $38.1 bn On Monday, another round of Montreal Protocol talks will kick off in Kigali, Rwanda, with 191 countries negotiating a global deal to replace heat-trapping refrigerant gases with climate-friendly alternatives. India, one of the most rapidly growing markets for refrigeration …
Four heavy metals and a harmful compound have been found in samples of Pepsi, Coca Cola, Mountain Dew, Sprite and 7Up Coke, PepsiCo bank on cans, juices & T20 Five different toxins were found during a government study in cold drinks produced by PepsiCo and Coca Cola, the Indian Express …
Prime Minister Narendra ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi There has been a huge political and financial investment on the Swachh Bharat Mission by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The programme, however, is straining to achieve the desired results. There is a struggle to bring in the much required behavioural change among people …
National Consultation on Rural Sanitation hosted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in New Delhi calls for triggering mindset change, but lack of credible data on health and sanitation is a challenge There has been a huge political and financial investment on the Swachh Bharat Mission by Prime …
