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ENVIRONMENT - June 2015

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Mar 17, 2022

Rejuvenation Project of 13 Rivers

Ministry for Forest, Environment, and Climate Change announced the project for the rejuvenation of 13 major rivers in the country.
The 13 Rivers that will form part of the rejuvenation project include:
Himalayan Rivers: Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Yamuna, and Brahmaputra.
Deccan or Peninsular Rivers: Narmada, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna, & Cauvery.
Inland drained Category River: Luni
These 13 rivers cover nearly 57.45% of India's geographical area.
The river rejuvenation project seeks to achieve the following four goals:
Sustainable management of rivers and their landscapes
Biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration
Improving sustainable livelihoods
Knowledge management
The cost of the project is projected to be 19,342.62 crores and will take five years to be implemented.

Mar 15, 2022

Mumbai Becomes First South Asian City to Detail Net-zero Roadmap

Mumbai announced detailed plans to zero out carbon emissions by 2050, a target that puts it two decades ahead of India's national goal and makes it the first city in South Asia to set such a timeline.
In the plan announced, India's financial center, home to south Asia's biggest corporations, stock bourses and the central bank, proposed exhaustive changes to the way it manages energy, water, air, waste, green spaces and transport for its 19 million residents.

Mar 14, 2022

India, Sri Lanka Sign Agreement to Build Solar Power Plant in Island nation

India and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement for developing a 100 megawatt solar power plant in the island nation's eastern port district of Trincomalee, as part of the efforts to strengthen bilateral economic partnership, including through cooperation in the renewable energy sector.

Mar 10, 2022

Tamil Nadu Floating Solar Project

A floating solar project at Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu was set up by leading fertilizer manufacturer Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd (SPIC) at an estimated cost of Rs. 150.4 crore.
The unit was inaugurated by Chief Minister M K Stalin and is claimed to be India's largest and first floating power plant in Tamil Nadu.
AM International Holdings Ltd, Singapore, built the state-of-the-art 25.3 megawatts DC/22 megawatts AC floating solar power plant as part of its efforts to maximize energy output in industrial plants on a sustainable basis. SPIC Ltd is a part of Singapore-based AM International Holdings Ltd.
Greenam Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AM International, owns this project.
The floating islands and supply floats were designed, engineered, and anchored by SPIC Ltd in collaboration with Ceil and Terre, a global leader in floating solar power.
The construction activities were taken up by EDAC Engineering Ltd., another company of the AM International Group.
Yearly, this plant can generate 42.0 million units of electricity.

Mar 09, 2022

Plastics Innovation Hub Indonesia

A partnership was established by Australia and Indonesia with the aim of tackling plastic pollution in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Australian government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency launched the Plastics Innovation Hub Indonesia project.
According to the estimates of CSIRO, there are five billion to ten billion individual pieces of plastic in the Indo-Pacific region's coastlines.
This project is a part of CSIRO's Ending Plastic Waste Mission under which it aims to reduce plastic waste that is entering the environment by 80 percent by 2030.
This partnership will bring together investors, researchers, and major stakeholders, including public and private sector businesses, to develop various solutions to tackle plastic waste in Indonesia's waterways and oceans. The Hub expands on CSIRO's existing partnership with the Udayana University and Indonesian government to analyze, measure, and chart plastic pollution in Java, Bali, and other regions.

Amazon Rainforest Reaching Tipping Point

The Amazon rainforest is moving towards a tipping point where trees may die off en masse, say researchers.
A study suggests the world's largest rainforest is losing its ability to bounce back from damage caused by droughts, fires and deforestation.
Large swathes could become sparsely forested savannah, which is much less efficient than tropical forest at sucking carbon dioxide from the air.
The giant forest traps carbon that would otherwise add to global warming.
But previous studies have shown that parts of the Amazon are now emitting more carbon dioxide than can be absorbed.
The trees are losing health and could be approaching a tipping point - basically, a mass loss of trees.
The findings based on three decades of satellite data, show alarming trends in the health of the Amazon rainforest.

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