Category : Environment

While hundreds of ‘symbolic’ activities are marking the World Environment day across the country, CauseBecause dug out a news story that brings to light the fact that India’s Green Mission, one of eight such plans under the National Action Plan on Climate Change

The statutory Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) took just one day to clear several projects that it had rejected earlier for falling foul of green regulations or being too damaging to the environment.     The cleared projects included a water supply project on

The Supreme Court has imposed a fine of Rs 100 crore on Sterlite Industries, part of Vedanta Resources, for polluting environment through its copper-smelting plant in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. However, the apex court refused to direct closure of the plant. The company has

With resource crunch posing a major challenge, India needs to find new and additional financing avenues as well as technology to ensure sustainable development, the Economic Survey for 2012-13 has said. ‘While it makes efforts to efficiently and expeditiously bring price signals and

India has been classified as the least green country to make and drive electric cars, according to a report by independent research group Shrink That Footprint. The bottom-most ranking is due to an electricity grid dominated by high-carbon coal.   Titled ‘Shades of

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has sought Rs 462 crore in its budgetary allocation for improving the forest cover in India by five million hectares over the next 10 years as part of the Green India Mission. This is a substantial

It is like going back to the roots as a large section of farmers are switching to traditional yet healthier way of farming – organic farming. Revealing an interesting finding from its study on organic farming in Rajasthan, industry body Assocham said that

The government proposes to create 30,000 MW of fresh generating capacity from renewable sources of energy during the 12th five-year plan (2012″17). This will bring India’s overall renewable power capacity to 56,267 MW. The country’s power-generating capacity based on renewable sources currently stands

A study by two professors at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore asserts that India’s energy needs can be met entirely by solar and other renewable sources. The report, published in the journal Current Science, contradicts the widely propagated theory that

At least four leopards have been poached in India every week for the last decade. So says the report titled ‘Illuminating the Blind Spots: A Study on Illegal Trade in Leopard Parts in India (2001-2010)’, released by Traffic India, the wildlife trade monitoring