Views, Interviews and Analysis

International climate activist, Will Bates from 350.org talks about the strength, achievements and plans of the 350 campaign, and his opinion on the developed vs. developing country debate in terms of taking emission cuts.  

The objective of green buildings is to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment. Though its concept is being rapidly popularized in India, there are still a few hurdles that prevent mass scale adoption by project developers.

Carbon footprinting is not just a ‘in vogue’ term these days, but is largely being used to measure the sustainability of actions both at a personal and industrial front. This article explains the basic concept and the need for a low carbon living.

With the need to cut GHG emissions in the wake of climate crisis, REDD has manifested as a potential breather as well as an economically lucrative option. However, post Copenhagen and the developing vs. developed nation debate, the outcome of the mechanism is yet to unfold.

The electric vehicle is about saving real lives long before being about energy independence or slowing down global warming. The clean electric drive revolution has now reached the point of no return.

Bulu Imam, a prominent environmental activist writes about the futility of coal based power generation and the need and scope of renewable energy as a clean source of power in India.

Biofuels are getting a bad reputation. People are doing the math and realizing that replacing fossil fuels with crop-based biofuels would take all the arable land on the planet.[1] Using algae instead, may be key to biofuels becoming an eco-sound alternative.[2]

Some companies in the discipline of synthetic biology are working in hopes to capture large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and either sequester them or convert them into fuels. Here we introduce the basics around this emerging field.