A Madras High Court bench reiterated the need for more mental health institutions in the country citing that just 47 of these were not enough for a country like India. The honorable court also advised the central government to set up more institutions like NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences) at zonal levels.
Almost 29.7% of India’s total geographical area (TGA) underwent land degradation during 2018-19. The data released in the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India published by the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad, which comes under ISRO was published on its website in June. Besides land degradation, desertification had also increased. Some 83.69 million hectares underwent desertification in 2018-19.
More than 12 states in India are pushing for electric vehicles (EVs) including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, etc. Though in some of the states the bill is in the process of approval, most have already approved it. Recently Uttar Pradesh has made a push towards bringing EVs into mainstream transportation.
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The United State’s northwestern state Alaska recently has been hard hit due to the extreme weather conditions followed by the continuous rain and winter storms. Fairbanks, the second-largest city of Alaska is the worst affected as the huge sheets of ice have blocked the roads and caused serious pain for the residents.
The recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia has made western countries rethink their dependency on Russian oil and fossil fuel in general. The EU gets roughly 40% of its gas from Russia: According to figures from the research group Transport & Environment, this dependence costs around $118m a day.
People in many countries are urging their governments to ramp up the production and procurement of petroleum and natural gas. The IEA has suggested that countries should encourage people to reduce fuel consumption in the wake of the recent energy crisis, due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Even as western countries condemn Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, it’s Russian oil and gas that is keeping most of the western and especially European countries running. The west has long been condemning and sanctions weren’t enough to stop the import of Russian fossil fuels because of t how heavily dependent Europe is on Russian fuel, back in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine leaders mostly turned a blind eye towards it because of the fuel dependency.
According to IEA’s 2020 report, the Netherlands’ 71% energy came from fossil based fuel sources..The country is now going to be the second in the list of countries issuing ban on fossil fuels for heating purposes after Germany.
Air travel today is the prefered means for passenger and freight transport around the globe owing to its fast pace. It has made possible physical commodities’ exchange faster and easier, delivering to faster realization of globalization tenets. Air travel, similarly, has become an innate part of the global business environment, for the global workforce. Along with that, it is also prefered means of transport for travelers for domestic, leisure, medical and other reasons.
Air travel today is the prefered means for passenger and freight transport around the globe owing to its fast pace. It has made possible physical commodities’ exchange faster and easier, delivering to faster realization of globalization tenets. Air travel, similarly, has become an innate part of the global business environment, for the global workforce. Along with that, it is also prefered means of transport for travelers for domestic, leisure, medical and other reasons.
The ongoing shortage of fuel across the world due to the Russia-Ukraine war has exponentially increased the fossil fuel investments from the countries. The UN Chief António Guterres described it as “delusional” and added that this would only feed the war and worsen the climate change impacts.
In view of the power crisis in Australia which may deepen in the coming days, Energy Minister Chris Bowen on Thursday also warned of blackouts from homes in Sydney.
World’s leading fossil fuel firms are secretly planning around 195 to 200 projects across nations like the US, Russia, Australia and India which could trigger “catastrophic climate breakdown”. The environmentalists are referring these projects as ‘carbon bombs’. It’s stated that, the emissions released from these projects collectively will overshoot the emissions that had been agreed in the Paris Agreement 2015, which was to contain the global rise in temperature to 2°C.
A study done by the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) concluded that developing countries will suffer revenue loss in renewable energy transition.
India has decided to ratify a key amendment to the Montreal Protocol (1989) for saving the ozone layer. The Kigali amendment enables the stepwise phasing out of hydrofluorocarbons, a set of 19 chemicals that are responsible for ozone depletion.
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Svitlana Krakovska, who heads the applied climatology laboratory at Ukraine’s Hydrometeorological Institute, says fossil fuel dependency is the root of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Europe’s dependency on Russian oil has pumped enough money into Russia to reinforce its military. Money from oil and gas exports contributed 43% to the Kremlin’s budget, which is a large chunk.
The world is slowly transitioning to sustainable sources of energy and the vehicle industry being one of the biggest sources of greenhouse emissions is making a gradual and somewhat anxious shift towards electric vehicles.
On 9th November 2022, the fourth day of the COP27 at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, about 50 activists from Asia, Africa and the Americas protested in the central Blue Zone of the conference and called for an end to fossil fuel funding and a shift to investment in community-based renewable projects.
Hardeep Singh Puri, the Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs, has stated that the economic development strategy for India is based on seven crucial transitions to low-carbon development pathways.
A recent study by the Council for Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) revealed some concerning conclusions about industrialized countries' carbon emissions trajectory. These nations, which account for the lion's share of global carbon emissions, are expected to significantly exceed their 2030 emissions reduction targets. According to the analysis, the United States, Russia, and the European Union are on track to contribute an astounding 83% of this emissions overshoot.
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Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master, it was rightly said. Electronic devices have grown into an inevitable part of our daily lives.