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NITI Aayog on Green Financing
According to NITI Aayog, there is a need for more financial instruments to provide a boost to clean mobility in India, particularly shared mobility, while keeping its focus on finance methods that are widely acceptable, applicable, and sustainable. Overview: NITI Aayog has insisted on taking a sustainable and climate-centric approach both from an environmental standpoint ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2022
Topics: COP 26 • GIZ India • Green Financing • NITI Aayog • World Resources Institute
BEE expands Star Labelling Programme to two more appliances
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency has formulated the Star Labelling Programme under the Energy Conservation Act, 2001. Recently, on its 19th foundation day, BEE expanded its coverage to 2 more appliances: Deep Freezers and Light Commercial Air Conditioners. The total appliances covered under the programme are 26 now. A database on energy efficiency called ‘Urja ..
Topics: Bureau of Energy Efficiency • Energy conservation act • World Resources Institute
World Resources Institute releases a report titled “Reducing Food Loss and Waste”
The World Resources Institute (WRI) has recently released a report titled “Reducing Food Loss and Waste” with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The report has quantified global food wastage — nearly one-third of the food i.e. produced each year goes uneaten, costing the global economy over $940 billion. The uneaten food is responsible for ..
Topics: Greenhouse gas • Waste • World Resources Institute
Water Crisis: Data from World Resources Institute
The new data from the World Resources Institute makes the following observations: About one-quarter of the world’s population is facing extremely high levels of baseline water stress (i.e. irrigated agriculture, industries, and municipalities withdraw more than 80% of their available supply on average every year). Water withdrawals have more than doubled globally since the 1960s due ..
Topics: Groundwater • Hydraulic engineering • Hydrology • Irrigation • Irrigation in viticulture • Natural environment • Nature • Water • Water Crisis • Water resources • water risk scores • Water scarcity • Water Stress • Water supply • Water treatment • World Resources Institute
Tropical forest size of England destroyed in 2018: WRI report
As per recently published US-based World Resources Institute (WRI) report, world lost 12 million hectares (30 million acres) of tropical tree cover in 2018. It is fourth largest annual decline since global satellite data become available in 2001. According to report, with such decline world’s forests entered in ‘emergency room’ implying that planet’s health is ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Biodiversity Loss • Brazil • Carbon Sink • Environment • GHGs • Global Forest Watch • Mighty Earth • Planet • Tropical Rain Forest • World Resources Institute