New Delhi: Emissions from coal plants resulted in 80,000 to 1,15,000 premature deaths and more than 20 million asthma cases in 2011-12 in the country, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday. According to a report titled 'Coal Kills - An assessment of death and disease caused by India's dirtiest energy source', the coal-based plants quantified additional health impacts, such as hundreds of thousands of heart attacks.
The estimated monetary cost associated with these health impacts exceeded Rs.16,000 to Rs.23,000 crore per year, the report said. The Central Pollution Control Board has said that steps have been taken to curb the pollution emission from such coal-based power plants.
Emphasis is placed on cleaner technology while granting environmental clearance to new coal-based thermal power plants, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury said in a written reply.
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05:35 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Bangalore: Indian IT bellwether Infosys became Environmental Tracking (ET) carbon ranking leader in 2013 for its greenhouse gas emissions and disclosure practices. "As part of the selection process, the Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO), a London-based climate change and finance think-tank, ranked Infosys among top five of the 300 large firms it assessed for carbon footprint," the global software major said in a statement here on Monday. The company's carbon reduction...
11:59 PM, Apr 29, 2013
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co has been forced to apologise for an advertisement that sought to promote the zero carbon emissions of one of its cars by featuring a man failing to commit suicide using a hose attached to the exhaust. The ad debacle is the latest to hit the carmaker, the world's fifth largest by sales when combined with its Kia Motors affiliate, after it exaggerated fuel performance...
10:39 AM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Voicing concern over "painfully slow" progress in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the goal of stabilising global temperatures was "nowhere in sight" and pitched for individual countries to take action to increase energy efficiency. Singh, inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial, also made it clear that rich nations, who were responsible for a bulk of greenhouse gas emissions, were best placed to provide workable...
12:30 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Coral reefs across the world are at risk if the carbon emissions are not reduced, says a study. The study published in Nature Climate Change researchers used the latest emissions scenarios and climate models to show how varying levels of carbon emissions are likely to result in more frequent and severe coral bleaching events. ...
01:54 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Global warming has stalled since 1998, and in the next few years Earth's temperature will not rise as rapidly as feared, UK Met officials have claimed. Over the next five years temperatures will be 0.43 degrees above the 1971-2000 average, instead of the previously forecast 0.54 degrees a 20 per cent reduction, the Met office in UK has confirmed. ...
12:50 PM, Jan 09, 2013
After desperate attempts by the host country Qatar to save the talks, the UN conference on climate change on Saturday agreed to extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol, which controls the greenhouse gas emissions of rich countries, through 2020. ...
10:39 PM, Dec 08, 2012
More than 100 million people will die and the global economy will miss out on as much as 3.2 per cent of its potential output annually by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday. As global average temperatures rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects on the planet, such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising...
11:11 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: Friday is the last day of the Earth Summit at Rio and 191 member nations of the United Nations are expected to endorse the final draft proposal that lays down new mechanisms for eventual funding and technology transfer for sustainable development. On Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh criticised the industrialised world for not doing enough to fund efforts to cut carbon emissions. Manmohan also made a strong plea...
07:27 AM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: India is poised to ask airlines not to take part in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), a senior official said, in the latest escalation of a row over an EU law requiring all flights in and out of Europe to pay for their carbon emissions. China in February said its airlines were barred from participating in the European scheme unless they get government approval to do...
03:46 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Durban: Amid pressure on India to agree to a legally binding commitment to cut green house gas emission, New Delhi on Wednesday defended its policy, saying it had "a very small carbon footprint" and was implementing ambitious energy efficiency programmes. Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan, who is leading the Indian delegation at the 12-day talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, on Wednesday attempted to convince gathered...
11:22 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Kolkata: There was a huge solar flare in 1859. It was so large that it could be seen with the naked eye. In 1989, a solar storm wiped out Canada's northern electric grid. Canada was out of power for almost three days. Violent magnetic emissions from the sun could one day destroy all electronic equipment on earth. An Indian scientist from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research has helped...
01:41 PM, Mar 08, 2011
Washington: Last year tied for the warmest since data started in 1880, capping a decade of record high temperatures that shows mankind's greenhouse gas emissions are heating the planet, a US agency said. Global surface temperatures in 2010 were 1.12 degrees Fahrenheit (0.62 Celsius) above the 20th century average, tying the record set in 2005, the National Climatic Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Wednesday....
04:47 PM, Jan 13, 2011
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UN's Environment Programme and the South African ministry of environment have launched an initiative to offset the emissions of the soccer teams. ...
04:30 PM, Jun 11, 2010
![Industry, transport drive leap in India's CO2 emissions]( "Industry, transport drive leap in India's CO2 emissions")
India's greenhouse gas emissions grew 58 per cent between 1994 and 2007. ...
02:13 PM, Jun 11, 2010
Shyam Saran, PM's Special Envoy, says there is hope after Copenhagen. ...
08:23 PM, Dec 27, 2009
Opposition leader Arun Jaitley alleges agreement hurts poor nations. ...
02:40 PM, Dec 22, 2009
US will be able to review what India and China do. ...
11:16 AM, Dec 21, 2009
Delegates rest, after a 24-hour period of plenary sessions. ...
12:02 AM, Dec 20, 2009
US and the BASIC countries struck a deal on climate change on Friday night. ...
07:20 PM, Dec 19, 2009
