Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines inaugurated the Conference of Ministers for Power, New & Renewable Energy and Mines of States & Union Territories at the first SWITCH Global Expo in the presence of Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary, MNRE. Read more…
Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in a new assessment. With clear benefits to people and natural ecosystems, limiting global warming to 1.5 °C compared to 2 °C could go Read more…
As a human race we have done very well in the last century. It has seen a global economic boom on a scale never experienced before. According to the IMF paper titled, ‘The world economy in the 20th century: Striking developments and policy lessons’ world GDP at constant prices increased Read more…
The festive season is ushering. Optimism for a better environment and healthy quality of life is high on our minds. As Ganesha rings bell and promises to remove obstacles, and as we await Maa Durga to kill the evil forces and remove our woes and miseries, we brace for the Read more…
The effects of global warming are already visible. Average temperatures are only 0.8 degree Celsius higher today than in 1880. Yet there is already an increasing frequency of extreme weather events, rising ocean temperatures and disappearing corals, melting glaciers and shrinking polar ice caps, and rising sea levels. Public action Read more…