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Greenhouse Gas Emission from G20 nations continue: Report
As per the G20 Brown to Green Report 2018, none of the G20 nations have their emission levels low enough to meet the 2030 targets. The report measures how the world’s top 20 economies nations are doing along the road to meet the guidelines set by the Paris Agreement. As per the report, Greenhouse gas ..
Topics: Climate change mitigation • Climate forcing agents • Environment • G20 • G20 Pittsburgh summit • Global warming • Greenhouse gas • Law by country • Paris Agreement • Politics by country • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
2019 edition of World Cities Day (WCD)
The World Cities Day (WCD) is observed every year on 31 October to promote the international community’s interest in global urbanization, push forward cooperation among countries in meeting opportunities and addressing challenges of urbanization, and contributing to sustainable urban development around the world. The 2019 theme “Changing the world: innovations and a better life for ..
Topics: Climate change mitigation • Environmental social science • Environmentalism • Human migration • Industrial Revolution • Sustainability • Sustainable Development • Urban development • Urban planning • Urbanization
IIT Madras inks pact with ExxonMobil to boost biofuel research
The IIT Madras has collaborated with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) for research on energy and biofuels. The 5-year joint-research agreement focuses on biofuels, data analytics, gas conversion and transport, and is intended towards finding low-emission solutions.
Topics: Biofuel • Biofuel in the European Union • Climate change mitigation • Energy • ExxonMobil • Fuels • Renewable fuels • Sustainable biofuel • Sustainable Development • Sustainable technologies
National Centre for Clean Coal Research & Development Inaugurated
The National Centre for Clean Coal Research and Development was inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc)-Bengaluru by the Union Minister of Science & Technology, Dr Harsh Vardhan. National Centre for Clean Coal Research & Development The National Centre for Clean Coal Research & Development has been established by the government of India through ..
Topics: Chemical engineering • Climate change mitigation • Coal pollution mitigation • Energy • Energy development • Energy economics • Environmental mitigation • Indian Institute of Science • Nature • Sustainable energy
Researchers at IIT Hyderabad develop method to make biofuel with sugar and salt
By using sugar, sulphuric acid and salt, the researchers of IIT Hyderabad have developed a cheap and efficient nano-carbon catalyst to help in the production of biofuel precursors. The catalyst showed better efficiency and selectivity than the commercially available variants to produce the desired C15 oxygenated hydrocarbon — a precursor to diesel and jet fuel. ..
Topics: Aviation fuels • Biofuel • Catalysis • Climate change mitigation • Emerging technologies • Fuels • Jet fuel • Nature • Renewable fuels • Sustainable Development • Sustainable technologies