Current plans to build 370 coal-fired power stations in India will gravely undermine the country’s Paris climate pledge, or create “stranded assets” worth billions of dollars.
That’s the conclusion…
The [Karnataka] state government [in India] has decided to cap thermal power production and not invest in such plants henceforth.
“Karnataka Power Corporation Limited has decided to stop investing…
India-based renewable energy project developer Greenko Energy Holdings has announced a new venture in the pumped hydro storage segment.
According to media reports, Greenko plans to invest US$4.3…
Over recent months Raja, a farmer in India's Tamil Nadu state, has had a change of routine.
Every few days, the 53-year-old leaves his 30-acre (12-hectare) farm in the Villupuram district — where he…
Kerala villagers are reaping the benefits of a scheme that pays them to leave their trees rooted, reducing risk of deforestation.
In the misty, hilly terrain of Wayanad, in the southern Indian state…
Lancet report finds that toxic air caused rise in lung cancer, stroke and other diseases.
Pollution accounted for nearly 1.7m premature deaths in India in 2019, or 18% of all deaths, according to a…
China’s new emissions target for 2030 is an ‘incremental step forward’, an analyst says
The leaders of China and India failed to set ambitious new climate targets at a key summit co-hosted by the UK…
The wife of the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is a shareholder in a restaurants business that funnelled investments through a letterbox company in the tax haven of Mauritius, in a structure that could…
Indian capital records highest single day rise in cases as monitor says pollution is at 14 times WHO safe level.
Delhi’s 20 million residents are facing a double health crisis as high levels of…
Carlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity’ Sri Lankan elephant’s confrontation with death.
Licypriya Kangujam and Aarav Seth put in back of police van after demonstrating in New Delhi, which is often blanketed in thick smog.
A nine-year-old climate change activist in India was detained by…
India is planning to replace retiring coal-fired power plants with renewable generating capacity in a bid to cut the nation’s carbon footprint, power minister R. K. Singh said on Tuesday.
India is…
Rapid industrialisation in Gujarat threatens the mangroves that kharai camels and their nomadic herders depend on.
Ayub Amin Jat treats his camels like his children. But then his camels are no…
António Guterres tells country to stop building coal-fired power stations for sake of climate.
India must swiftly and permanently turn away from coal despite its need for cheap energy, the UN…
India has a crucial role to play in promoting clean energy and climate action as the world looks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday. …
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