| Sourced From Times of India |
2 July 2009
CHENNAI: Here is food for thought on energy conservation. About 15,000 students staying in the hostel of Sathyabama University will now have food cooked exclusively using solar energy.
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Carbon firm hopes India project to be funding model
* Says grouping projects together helps attract investors
* Seeking funding on limited recourse basis
KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 (Reuters) - A European-based carbon offset developer has grouped more than a dozen biomass projects in India in a deal it hopes will serve as a model to attract greater funding for clean-energy projects.
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Climate meets leave behind carbon footprints!
| Sourced From Times of India |
Ahmedabad : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) member and IIM-A professor Priyadarshi Shukla will be travelling to Geneva
in July to attend an IPCC conference. On his air ticket, it is clearly mentioned that Shukla’s flight with Air India and British Airways will be responsible for letting off 2,661 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere called carbon footprint that contributes towards global warming.
ITC’s Unique Social Forestry Project Bags Carbon Credits for Poor Tribals
| Sourced From Merinews.com |
KOLKATA, India, June 10 /PRNewswire/ — The CDM Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has confirmed the registration of ITC’s unique and large-scale social forestry project - a first of its kind in India.
VMC sets ball rolling to earn carbon credits
| Sourced From The Times of India |
VADODARA: Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is all set to set the ball rolling to earn carbon credits. The civic body is among others chosen by the state government for the purpose.
Tata Steel plant cuts CO2 emission
| Sourced From Sify.com |
Kolkata: Tata Steel’s plant at Jamshedpur reduced the CO2 emission by 36 per cent in past 12 years, according to company sources. This was possible through adoption of several measures, which included, among others, installation of energy efficient equipment and processes, improving the by-product fuel recovery and usage and waste heat recovery.
Kheda’s carbon footprint equals entire Europe
| Sourced From Times of India |
GANDHINAGAR: On Tuesday when a high-level committee of senior ministers met in Gandhinagar to form a special ministry to curb climate change and discuss carbon footprints little did they realise that the per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) contribution of a small district like Kheda was equivalent to the per capita GHG emission calculated for entire Europe!
EDS Introduces Carbon Emissions Management Service In India
| Sourced From Efytimes.com |
The service will help government organisations and enterprises calculate energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions emanating from IT assets.
Thursday, June 04, 2009: EDS, an HP Company, has come up with its Carbon Emissions Management Service (CEMS) for the Indian market. EDS CEMS is a comprehensive suite of services developed in Australia to help organisations drive IT asset efficiency and create greener technology environments.
The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment?
| Sourced From MailOnSunday.co.uk |
In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag. So why has it been given tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer-funded UN ‘green reward points’, which are traded hungrily on the financial markets at huge profit?
Secret study: India a low carbon leader?
| Sourced From CleanTech.com |
In a yet-to-be released study, McKinsey & Co. says India is already on its way to becoming one of the world’s least carbon-intensive countries—despite the country’s 7.5 percent economic growth rate.
The study is the second climate accolade for the country this month. Last week, the World Bank—for the first time—supported India’s stance on international climate change.
Jatropha farmers can earn Rs 2,800 per ha from carbon trading
| Sourced From Hindu.com |
New Delhi (PTI): The cultivation of jatropha, a bio-fuel plant, holds immense potential for farmers as they can earn Rs 2,800 per hectare by trading in carbon credits, a scheme to mitigate global warming, industry chamber FICCI has said.
Carbon credit prices up on demand gap
| Sourced From TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com |
MUMBAI: After witnessing a trough for over six months, carbon credit prices in the spot market have finally improved to about euro 12 per unit.
Going green: Tatas appoint E&Y, McKinsey to cut carbon emission
| Sourced From TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com |
MUMBAI: The Tatas are going green. In a bid to cut down on its greenhouse gas emissions, the house of Tatas has appointed consultancy majors McKinsey and Ernst & Young to assist its top five polluting companies reduce their carbon footprint.
Sreelatha Menon: Sirsa’s carbon farmers
| Sourced From Business-Standard.com |
A forest conservator in Haryana gets villagers to grow trees and earn money by selling carbon credits in the international market.
More city forests soon to score carbon credits
| Sourced From ExpressIndia.com |
New Delhi To fight climate change, the state government is turning to the woods.
