Cement, Energy and Environment

Energy Efficiency 21 • INDIA TO SET ENERGY EFFICIENCY TARGETS FOR INDUSTRIES 21 • INDIA SET TO INTRODUCE STANDARDS TO ENSURE QUALITY IMPORTS OF LEOS 21-22 • EUROPE SETS FUEL-EFFICIENCY TARGET 22 • ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 23 ...._ • GOVERNMENT'S POLICY MATRIX FOR ALLOCATING GREEN RESOURCES 23 • TOWARDS WETLAND CONSERVATION 23-24 Pollution Control 24 • MARKET-FRIENDLY POLLUTION CONTROL SYSTEM LAUNCHED 24-25 Climate Change & Global Warming 25 • CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSIDERED: The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change 25-33 • CLIMATE TIPPING POINTS 34 • PM:INDIA TO DECREASE GOP EMISSION INTENSITY BY 20% 34 • INDIA ADDING 300000 HECTARES OF FOREST EVERY YEAR:UN 34 • DEVELOPMENT SPEND HELPS INDIA REDUCE EMISSIONS BY 30% 34 • LOW-CARBON COMMITIEE CHARTS HIGH-CARBON GROWTH 35 • ORISSA MOOTS RS 180-BILLION ACTION PLAN TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE 35 • 2010, A REMARKABLE YEAR IN THE ANNALS OF CLIMATOLOGY 35 • C0 2 TWEAKS NITROGEN CYCLE 35 - 36 • CHINA, INDIA, BRAZIL PUSH US FOR DEEPER GHG CUTS 36 • 2010 TO BE AMONG THREE WARMEST YEARS, UN SAYS 36 • WORLD'S GLACIERS MELTING AMID WARMER TEMPERATURES: UN STUDY 36 • NEWS BRIEF 37 STATES TO NAME PEOPLE AFFECTED BY MINES FOR PROFIT SHARING .... • 37 Renewable Energy 37 • MOST STATES FAIL TO ACHIEVE RENEWABLE ENERGY TARGET UNDER THE CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN 37 • RENEWABLE ENERGY AT A GLANCE IN INDIA 38 • RENEWABLE ENERGY TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN INDII>, 39 • . • RENEWABLE ENERGY TARIFF TRENDS 39 -40 ... • RELIANCE POWER TARGETS 1 GW OF RE CAPACITY 41 • RE PROJECT STATUS BY TECHNOLOGY 42-43 • RENEWABLE PURCHASE OBLIGATIONS AS MANDATED BY THE SERCS 43-44 • REG REGULATIONS 44 - 45 • INDIA SET TO GET ASIA'S FIRST TIDAL POWER PLANT 45