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ENVIRONMENT - December 2018

Dec 2018

Apr 28, 2022

German-funded Consortium to Develop 'Battery Passport' for Europe

German-funded consortium of carmakers and battery producers, including BMW, Umicore and BASF, is to develop a "battery passport" that traces the content and carbon footprint of batteries in Europe. A European Commission proposal due to be discussed later in 2022 states that rechargeable electric vehicles, light transport and industrial batteries sold in Europe must disclose their carbon footprint from 2024 and comply with a CO2 emissions limit from 2027.
They must also disclose the content of recycled raw materials in those batteries from 2027, followed by requirements to use a minimum share of recycled cobalt, lithium, nickel and lead from 2030.
Batteries could carry a QR code linking to an online database where EV owners, businesses or regulators could access information on the battery's composition.

Apr 26, 2022

Palli Becomes India's First Carbon Neutral Panchayat

Palli village in Jammu's Samba district is the country's first panchayat to become carbon neutral, fully powered by solar energy and with all its records digitised and saturation of benefits of all the Central schemes.
Inaugurating the 500 KW solar plant at the country's first carbon-neutral panchayat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it would take three weeks to move a 'sarkari' file from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir but this project with the help of villagers was completed in a record time of three weeks. Palli was a major step towards the Glasgow goal of making India carbon-neutral.

Apr 25, 2022

Apple Announces New Partnership to Protect Mangroves in Raigad District

Apple teamed with the Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF), a Pune-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), to safeguard a 2,400-hectare mangrove environment in Maharashtra's Raigad region.
Protecting Mangrove forests have a lot of benefits, not just environmental aspect, but also economically for the fishermen and other communities living in those regions. Mangroves are known as natural bio shields and they lessen damage to coastal areas during the tsunamis and cyclones, which by the way have increased in the recent past in India. Add to that, they greatly help in stopping sand erosion. Also, Mangrove forests act as a great carbon sink, which again helps in slowing the climate change.

Apr 22, 2022

Scientists Discover New Eel Species from Kerala, Bengal

A group of Indian scientists discovered a new species of eel from among specimens collected from the Kalamukku and Digha Mohana fishing harbours in Kerala and West Bengal respectively.
The newly discovered eel belongs to the Congrid eels group and was named Ariosoma indicum. The term Indicum means that it was found in India.

Apr 21, 2022

New Shrimp Species Discovered off Lakshadweep

Scientists from the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) discovered a new species of shrimp, which has been named Actinimenes koyas.
The species was collected at a depth of 1.0–2.0 m from the coral atoll of Agatti Island, which is part of the Lakshadweep group of islands, by a team comprising Purushothaman Paramasivam, A. Dhinakaran, T.T. Ajith Kumar and Kuldeep K. Lal.
This new species has been named 'Koyas' to honour the local community on the Lakshadweep islands as Koyas form an important ethnic community on the islands, who have made a significant contribution to the development and preservation of the heritage of the society.

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