In a bid to reduce carbon footprint, railway minister Mamata Banerjee, presenting her second Rail Budget for 2010-11 on Wednesday, proposed distri- bution of 2.6 million CFLs and setting up of 10 eco- parks under the PPP model.

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Calling to rise: A.R. Santha Kumar, Professor, IIT Chennai addressing the gathering at National Science Day Celebrations at Gandhigram Rural Unversity in Gandhigram near Dindigul on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Delhi will be going green this October. In an effort to reduce the carbon footprints of the Commonwealth Games 2010, the organizing committee (OC) is planning a number of initiatives to make the Games ecofriendly.

Emphasising that the National Climate Change Action Plan will only work with local and state level implementation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh kickstarted the first National Conference of Chief Secretaries on Monday, where state-level climate change action plans were discussed.

And Delhi finally appears ready to comply.

Pakistan will save overall 2.2 billion-dollar electricity in system annually by replacing 30 million old incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in two years' time, says an ADB study.

New Delhi: The international climate agenda may have collapsed but India is moving full steam on the domestic front. By the end of this year, the government is on way to selling 6 crore CFL bulbs at the heavily subsidized price of Rs 15

Copenhagen notwithstanding, we have our own energy saving institiutions to turn green
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Delhi may have become the first state in the country to finalise a city-specific

Let's cut to the chase. The issue in Copenhagen is not one of gases, but how the world will cut carbon dioxide