Views, Interviews and Analysis

As telephone has grown to become the lifeline of communication in most areas, telecom operators are looking towards green communications, which is expected to become a part of normal telecom business.

Nakul Zaveri , Senior Investment Officer, Climate Change Capital talks about recent and futuristic carbon market, carbon finance and Clean Development Mechanism activities with Indian perspective.

There is no one magic "Big Button Solution" for this current situation, which is really really allarming. Wake Up ! We need to act right now at this very moment. As a good old saying says, small drops make mighty ocean. Even a little baby step conunts here. Let us team up together to fight against Global warming & pollution. I'm not here to say the effects of Global warming & pollution. But to show you how a tiny little step will have a massive impact. We need to look this issue from "grounds up" approach. So, let us start from our very own homes.

Energy management expert, V. Raghuraman, talks about the position and its future ahead to achieve the Carbon Intensity reduction targets and National Missions on Enhanced Energy Efficiency goals.

Conventional resources are degrading at a fast and unrestorable pace. Non-conventional energy options are being sought. But what will be the result? LCA comes as a handy assessment tool in here.

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.

In context of technology transfer as a key focus of discussion between nations post Copenhagen, on April 20th, India Carbon Outlook convened a roundtable of multilateral investors, trade commissioners, policy thinktanks and corporates to discuss the global prototypes and structure of Technology DIffusion Centre needed in India.

From stadiums for the Commonwealth Games to Civic Centre buildings, today every new construction aims to be ‘green’. Greening comes at a higher capital cost, but has tremendous potential for savings, and a reduction of the strain on our natural resources in the long run.