-The Hindu Is the use of nuclear power and hydrogen critical for India to transition to a carbon neutral economy? Besides the use of electric vehicles, what are some of the other plans on the anvil to help the country achieve net zero by 2070?   The Climate Change Conference (COP27) at Sharm el-Sheikh was to end on Friday but the deadline was extended to the weekend because there were divisions among member...

-Hindustan Times The meat-climate debate is pretty much a red herring for a country like India where meat has a minuscule presence in Indian diets There is increasing realization that meat-based diets lead to harmful emissions. Many scientific studies show the world stands to gain if people either give up or even reduce eating meat. For example, a 2019 article in the Nature journal, citing a report by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental...

-Livemint.com Rosatom is providing the technology for the construction of the Kudankulam plant which is to have six units of 1,000 MWe generation capacity each NEW DELHI: Russia on Tuesday began construction of the fifth nuclear power unit at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, a development hailed by Russian ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev as a “significant" milestone in bilateral nuclear cooperation. Russian company Rosatom is providing the technology for the construction of the...

-The Hindu There seems to be a shift from prioritising expressways and megaports to agriculture and forests Environmental promises have made a visible entry into Tamil Nadu’s politics, along with a guarded valourisation of farmer and fisher rights over big-ticket infrastructure and industrial projects. All key parties in the 2021 Assembly polls barring the AIADMK dedicated a section for “environmental protection” in their manifestos. Setting aside the justified cynicism about fulfillment of...

-The Indian Express Rice exporters alone are said to be stuck with receivables of Rs 800-900 crore against shipments made till June 2019. A major hit to India from the uncertainty triggered by the assassination of Iran’s most powerful military commander could be to its multi-billion dollar basmati rice export industry. The Islamic republic accounted for $1.56 billion (Rs 10,790.02 crore) out of India’s total $4.71 billion (Rs 32,804.30 crore) worth of...