Category: Environment Schemes and Initiatives

India Exim Bank has listed its 10-year $1billion sustainability bond on Sustainable Bond Market platform at London Stock Exchange.

The Tamil Nadu government has chosen to pinpoint beaches along the State’s coastline as potential candidates for achieving Blue Flag Certification.

The Air Quality Index of Mumbai is worse than Delhi.

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) issued tender for construction of India’s First Offshore Wind Projects in Tamil Nadu.

A new U.N. treaty to protect the world’s oceans was signed by 67 countries to reverse the damage done to fragile marine environments by overfishing and other human activities.

Tamil Nadu and Kerala will join hands to count endangered Nilgiri tahr, as the animal is only found in select habitats in the two States.

A report by the Climate Overshoot Commission said that potentially dangerous experimental geoengineering methods – including controversial “solar radiation modification” – need to be halted until they have been researched thoroughly.

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change celebrated 29th World Ozone Day recently.

Commerce and Industry Minister said government will take all necessary steps to protect Indian industry from any adverse impact of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

The Mizoram Assembly unanimously passed a resolution opposing the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 2023, “to protect the rights and interest of the people of Mizoram”.

Indian Army’s new Thal Sena Bhawan (TSB) boasts of several green measures conforming with GRIHA-IV (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) norms.

World’s 1st prototype of the BS 6 Stage II ‘Electrified Flex fuel vehicle’ (developed by Toyota Kirloskar Motor) capable of running on up to 85% ethanol blended petrol was launched recently.