The Government has approved a new policy on development of solar energy in the country by launching of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. This is a historic and transformational initiative of the UPA Government . The Solar Mission is very much in line with the vision of modern India of Pandit Nehru, which has made India today, a leading nuclear and space power. This Mission is one of the eight key National Missions which comprise India’s National Action Plan on Climate Chang... Read Full Story

The Government has introduced the National Green Tribunal Bill, 2009 in the Lok Sabha on 31st July 2009, which envisages setting up of National Green Tribunal (NGT) for effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to Environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources. Read Full Story

Dr. Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary met Union Minister of Power Shri Sushilkumar Shinde today in New Delhi. Both Shri Shinde and Secretary Chu agreed that joint development of new technologies in the field of energy would be of mutual interest. Amongst the areas identified for cooperation are: Ø Clean coal technologies Ø Smart grids and Ø Energy efficiency. They also discussed ways to accelerate the adoption of clean and efficient coal energy technology in India, in view of the large s... Read Full Story

There are 661 Protected Areas in the country which cover around 4.8% geographical area. There are 99 National Parks, 515 Wildlife sanctuaries, 43 Conservation Reserves and 4 Community Reserves in the country. S.No. States/Uts No. of National Parks No. Of wildlife sancturaies No. of Conserva tion Reserves No.of Community Reserves 1 Andhra Pradesh 5 22 0 0 2 Arunachal Pradesh 2 11 0 0 3 Assam 5 18 0 0 4 Bihar 1 13 0... Read Full Story

We all know energy is scarce and expensive and more so, when the country is facing energy shortage. Demand management and energy efficiency, therefore, are the new-age mantras for the power sector. The strategy developed to make power available to all by 2012 includes promotion of energy efficiency and its conservation in the country, which is found to be the least cost option to augment the gap between demand and supply.Considering the vast potential of energy savings and benefits of energy ... Read Full Story

The Union Cabinet approved the proposal to exchange letters of Agreement between United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the Government of India for the provision of necessary privileges and immunities to the participants invited by the UN by the Government of India in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations during the Conference.The Government of India in collaboration with the U... Read Full Story

One Day Workshop on Development of Environmental Pollution Index (EPI) for Identification and Assessment of Critically Polluted Areas begins here tomorrow. The aim of this workshop is to develop an Environmental Pollution Index (EPI) for the quantification of the environment health of industrial areas. The EPI helps in synthesizing the available information on environmental status of the area by using quantitative criteria, thus reducing complex information into a smaller, more easily retaine... Read Full Story

Copenhagen meet in December this year is an important event as on its outcome depends the prospect of a new pact to replace the Kyoto protocol which expires in 2012. The new pact must be in place by the end of 2010 to leave 2 years for nations to ratify it before it comes into force from January 1, 2013.Despite international meets during the last one month, one after the other, like the one organized by the UN Secretary General in New York, the G- 20 at Pittsburgh and now the Bangkok meet, a ... Read Full Story

A Memorandum of Agreement on Cooperation on Addressing Climate Change between the Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of India has been signed by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh and XIE Zhenhua, Vice Chairman, Minister, National Development and Reform Commission, China. This Agreement would strengthen the cooperative activities between China and India on mitigation, programmes, projects, technology development and demonstration relating to gree... Read Full Story

Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said to stop deforestation is a challenge and sustainable forest management is part of this challenge. Discussing density of forest cover of the country ,he said that he does not foresee expansion in area of forest cover, but the migration of low density to medium density forest cover and higher density forest cover will be achieved. Talking about RED and Red+ proposals, he argued that countries like India and China should be awarded... Read Full Story