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India has submitted its first national report on the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat, documenting Rs 216.31 crore mobilised through benefit-sharing approvals betw…
18 Mar 2026
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu together account for 23 per cent of India's renewable energy generation and are leading the country's energy transition, with Karnataka holding 10 per cent and Tamil Nadu 12 p…
17 Mar 2026
India's Reliance Industries has signed a USD 3 billion green ammonia supply agreement with South Korean construction and engineering company Samsung C&T, described as one of the largest long-term gree…
17 Mar 2026
Tamil Nadu, which set up India's first commercial wind farms in 1986 and developed the country's largest onshore wind farm at Muppandal with 1.5 GW capacity, is now pursuing India's first offshore win…
17 Mar 2026
Climate change is increasingly recognised as a compounding threat to greater one-horned rhinoceros populations in India, with extreme weather events displacing rhinos from protected areas and economic…
17 Mar 2026
African governments are expanding fossil fuel production to service mounting external debt, which has doubled since 2020 to over $1 trillion, with interest payments more than doubling over 15 years to…
16 Mar 2026
India's new Solid Waste Management Rules, notified in January 2026 to replace the decade-old 2016 framework from April 1, introduce a centralised digital portal requiring mandatory registration and pe…
16 Mar 2026
Bhutan's Sustainable Development Fee of $100 per night per person generated Nu 43.31 million in 2025 and funds free healthcare, education and forest conservation in the country, offering a behavioural…
16 Mar 2026
Dapur village in Maharashtra's Nashik district received Rs 67,69,359 in its Gram Panchayat account in November 2025 under India's Access and Benefit Sharing mechanism, after biotechnology firm Advance…
15 Mar 2026
Training GPT-4 required over 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity, and global data centres now account for roughly 1.5 per cent of total electricity consumption — a share expected to double by 2030 as AI …
13 Mar 2026
India's Parliament learned that tree cover in the Indian Himalayan Region fell by 351.61 square kilometres between 2021 and 2023, according to the India State of Forest Report 2023. The disclosure cam…
13 Mar 2026
India has prepared but not yet launched a 1 GW offshore wind tender after the Solar Energy Corporation of India cancelled two prior tenders totalling 4.5 GW in August 2025 due to a complete absence of…
13 Mar 2026
The M C Mehta pollution case, originating from a 1985 oleum gas leak, has over four decades forced Delhi to shut coal plants, convert its entire public transport fleet to CNG and leapfrog emission sta…
13 Mar 2026
Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited unveiled a roadmap to add roughly 550 MW of solar annually from FY2026-27 through FY2029-30, reaching about 2,200 MW, alongside a 500 MW/1,00…
12 Mar 2026
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy notified Green Ammonia and Green Methanol Standards on February 27, 2026, under the National Green Hydrogen Mission, setting emission thresholds of 0.38 and 0.…
12 Mar 2026
Rural women in Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, launched a grassroots environmental campaign on International Women's Day under the group Paryavaran Sena, planting saplings and pledging conservatio…
10 Mar 2026
Sustainability software and advisory company Position Green has launched an ROI Calculator, a tool that enables companies to quantify the financial and emissions impact of decarbonization investments.…
10 Mar 2026
February 2026 recorded a global average surface air temperature of 13.26 degrees Celsius, 1.49 degrees above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average, making it the fifth warmest February on rec…
10 Mar 2026
Climate change is reshaping Tanzania's disease landscape as warmer temperatures, erratic rainfall and longer humid seasons create conditions for viruses, bacteria and disease-carrying insects to thriv…
10 Mar 2026
India generated 13,97,955.59 metric tonnes of e-waste in 2024-25, of which 11,59,228.25 metric tonnes were recycled, according to data presented to the Lok Sabha by the Ministry of Environment, Forest…
10 Mar 2026
Data shared at the IGBC Green Telangana Summit 2026 showed the state hosts more than 1,245 registered green building projects covering over 1.67 billion square feet, much of it concentrated in Hyderab…
9 Mar 2026
The London Stock Exchange Group has launched LSEG Sustainability Ratings and Data, a new suite of ESG scores and sustainability analytics covering more than 16,000 companies and over 1 million fixed i…
9 Mar 2026
Chief Justice of India B R Gavai acknowledged during proceedings that many girls continue to face Female Genital Mutilation, as a public interest litigation filed by human rights advocate Sunita Tiwar…
8 Mar 2026
Blue Dart Express Ltd. announced it has planted one million trees across India under its tree plantation initiative, expected to sequester approximately 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually at ful…
7 Mar 2026
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