PM releases the 'National Action Plan on Climate Change' in New Delhi (PTI) NEW DELHI: India on Monday unveiled its climate change action plan which does not set target reduction of greenhouse gas emissions but seeks to promote sustainable development through use of clean technologies. The National Action Plan on Climate Change categorically states that India's per capita greenhouse gas emissions will "at no point exceed that of developed countries."

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Consumers can now turn in discarded CFLs to get incentives NEW DELHI: Taking the first steps towards safe disposal of compact fluorescent lamps, power distribution company BSES on Friday launched a new programme wherein consumers can turn in their discarded CFLs and incandescent bulbs in exchange for incentives. Energy conservation The scheme, launched by Delhi Power Minister A.K. Walia, is aimed at fostering the ongoing energy conservation drive and ensuring safe disposal of CFLs.

Union finance minister P. Chidambaram did well to make it clear at the conference of oil producers and consumers in Jeddah that it was not the rising demand for oil in India and other developing countries that was contributing to the spiralling rise in crude prices. It is unfair to blame India's demand for crude oil as one of the reasons for the spike in crude prices. India's growth story is not a six-month-old story or even a one-year-old story. Crude prices have gone up by $140 a barrel in just a year, and by almost 40 per cent in the past six months.

Bishnu Dash To encourage micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the state to adopt modern cutting edge technology, the draft MSME development policy of the Orissa government has proposed the launch of an

Citizens and developers can soon look forward to earning property tax rebates by constructing eco-friendly buildings. The joint-select committee of the state government has approved the BMC's plan to offer incentives and tax rebates upto 50 percent on eco-friendly construction to achieve the goal of sustainable development.

Kolkata: Supporting the controversial India-U.S. nuclear deal, R. Chidambaram, chairman of the Union Cabinet's Scientific Advisory Committee, said here on Monday that the deal, if operationalised, will secure uranium supply for the country's reactors as well as facilitate technological collaboration with countries having nuclear know-how. He was speaking to newspersons after delivering the Raja Ramanna Memorial lecture at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre here.

This may come as a surprise, but a report from a scientific firm based in Washington, has revealed that obese people are contributing up to 45 per cent to global warming. Undeniably, planet earth is witnessing a major climate change in the world. And if you think it's only greenhouse gases doing the damage, think again. The scientific evidence which recently emerged, stated that obesity and global warming are linked. Could it be true or is it just one more way of making overweight people feel guilty?