NEW DELHI: NTPC is drawing up plans to increase its footprints overseas. Seeking to expand its presence in the clean energy sector, it is eyeing Maldives for establishing solar power projects.
NTPC is conducting a feasibility study in Maldives to explore the potential of the island nation for setting up solar power projects.
After looking to buy land in other countries, Maldives is making a last-ditch effort to avoid its citizens becoming climate refugees. It is importing sand. In this endeavour to tackle the effects of global warming, none other than Bangladesh is playing Good Samaritan.
Failure to create the 30-billion dollars climate fund even after one year of international commitment in Copenhagen will badly affect developing countries like Bangladesh, the Maldives and Ethiopia, said environmentalists at a climate change workshop in Delhi yesterday.
Indian minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh, however, said one possible outcome of the upcoming Cancun
The Maldives, which announced the planet's most ambitious environmental conservation plan to become carbon neutral by the year 2020, released the first ever carbon audit on Wednesday.
The audit announced at a teleconference held at President
Speaking at the Ministerial segment of the Twenty Second Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer held in Bangkok, 11-12 November, Minister of State Kamaludeen high-lighted the critical role that the Maldives is playing as an active member of the Protocol.
