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Financial sector confronts deforestation as a key ESG risk: Fitch
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], September 18 (ANI): The environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors could increasingly influence global banks' financing activities relating to commodity producers in forest-risk regions as deforestation is under growing scrutiny from activists and policymakers, Fitch Rat
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Titagarh to replace 25 pc of power demand with clean energy
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 10 (ANI): India's largest private sector manufacturer of passenger and freight trains Titagarh Wagons Ltd on Thursday announced the signing of a power purchase agreement with Fourth Partner Energy to procure 4.8 megawatts of solar power for its wagon
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Threat of climate change is real and dangerous: Piyush Goyal
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 9 (ANI): Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said that the threat of climate change is real and dangerous and the country has to move towards a world of net-zero carbon emissions.
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Railways stress on transporting cars by trains to reduce carbon emissions
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 3 (ANI): The Central Railway is emphasising on transporting cars by trains to reduce carbon emissions, helping to achieve the Indian Railways' target of a mass transportation network with 'Net Zero' carbon emission by 2030.
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Maruti Suzuki offsets 3,000 tonnes of carbon emissions by transporting car
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): Maruti Suzuki transported more than 6.7 lakh cars through the Indian Railways in the past six years, witnessing a compound annual growth rate of over 18 per cent and helping the country's largest passenger car maker offset nearly 3,000 tonnes of carbon emissi
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Railways takes decisive steps to transform into 'net zero' carbon emission
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 6 (ANI): Indian Railways has taken decisive steps to transform into a 'net zero' carbon emission mass transportation network by 2030.
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India's CO2 emissions drop by 1.4 pc for first time in four decades
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): Economic slowdown, growth of renewable energy and the impact of COVID-19 lockdown have led to the first year-on-year reduction in India's CO2 emissions in four decades, says Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
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Global energy demand to plunge due to biggest shock since World War II
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Paris [France], Apr 30 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic represents the biggest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades with the drop in demand this year set to dwarf the impact of the 2008 financial crisis and result in a record annual decline in carbon emissions of almost 8
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Biofuels can greatly reduce carbon emissions: Study
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Beer-Sheva [Israel], Mar 10 (ANI): Biomass fuels derived from various grasses could significantly mitigate global warming by reducing carbon, according to a long-term field study by a group of researchers.
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ABB India wins orders worth Rs 191 crore
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Feb 12 (ANI): Power and automation technology major ABB India said on Wednesday it has won two orders to supply traction equipment for Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) -- the manufacturing unit of Indian Railways -- and industrial drives to Megha Engineering
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UK prepone planned ban of new gasoline, diesel cars by 5 years
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], Feb 5 (ANI): The United Kingdom has decided to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars beyond 2030, five years earlier than the planned date, to deal with the climate crisis and help cut the country's carbon emissions to "net zero" by 2050.
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Four Indian airports receive international recognition for reducing emissi
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 9 (ANI): The Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced that four airports in the country have managed a transition from level 1 to level 2 with a reduction in the carbon emissions by grading their systems as per the Airports Council International (ACI).
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