Steel Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia stated on December 20 that India is trying to become a responsible steel manufacturer by encouraging the manufacturing of "green steel" in the nation.
In honor of National Energy Conservation Day, ENGIE, a pioneer in low-carbon energy solutions, organized a plantation campaign throughout all of its operational sites in India. In the three crucial fields of gas infrastructure, low-carbon power generation, and energy services, ENGIE is a major participant in the energy world, focused on renewable energy and low carbon distributed energy infrastructures.
India is prepared to accelerate its carbon emission control plans and implement significant changes in energy conservation with the passage of the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which will be enacted into an Act by both houses of the Parliament.
On Monday, the Rajya Sabha finally cleared the 2022 Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill. The main agenda of the bill is to put forward the outline for the use of clean energy mandatory.
A seed farm, located in Aluva was declared to be the first carbon-neutral farm. The announcement was made by Kerala’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. This marked a milestone event for India in its mission to reduce carbon emissions.
Along with the facilities of the passengers, Indian Railways is now also focusing on making the environment clean. Indian Railways is committed to ensure that there is no pollution through railways in the country and is trying to achieve the goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Railways have taken many such measures one after the other continuously for some time, in which modern rail should be known as Eco-Friendly Rail.
With the seasonal change in Delhi, some relief has also been seen from pollution. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, there has been an improvement in Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI). On Thursday, the average air quality index was recorded at 284, which is in poor condition. For the last few days, the AQI in the capital remained very poor and on Saturday it reached the severe category.
India can no longer escape issues like global warming as the citizens will face worse consequences in the coming years. The newly published World Bank report, titled 'Climate Investment Opportunities in India's Cooling Zone', informs that the people of India have been troubled by heatwaves in the last few years. According to the news agency PTI, in the month of April 2022, the average temperature in Delhi reached 41 degrees.
Delegates from 196 nations, including India, have assembled in Canada for a two-week summit that is expected to produce a major deal to prevent and reverse environmental degradation by 2030.
Alerting news has emerged from Antarctica as researchers have released a video, where William Glacier which is as big as 10 football grounds broke into thousand pieces. The research paper has been published in Science Advances Journal reveals that researchers believe that this event is likely to generate strong internal waves triggering internal tsunamis on the ocean surface. According to information received about the incident, it occurred when the team aboard the research ship RRS James Clark Ross of the British Antarctic Survey was taking ocean measurements off the Antarctic Peninsula.