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Australia's government intends to wrap up an agreement next year on pricing carbon, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Monday, testing the strength of her minority rule and pressing the accelerator on Canberra's climate change fight.

As world climate talks got underway in Mexico, Gillard said the government would bring forward by a year a decision on how to price carbon emissions, but left uncle

SECURING a global climate treaty this year in Cancun seems no more likely than it was last year in Copenhagen. Most countries see aggressive measures to reduce carbon emissions as a threat to their national economic development.

IT major Wipro on Friday said it has topped the carbon disclosure leadership index (CDLI) rankings for India. Wipro, which works on ecological sustainability and various climate change initiatives on energy efficiency and renewable energy, scored 87 points on a scale of 100. A total of 10 companies from diverse sectors participated for the CDLI India chapter.

The Tata group is investing millions of dollars in Sun Catalytix

Even as ethanol blending is gathering steam, the biodiesel blending programme has failed to take off, due to issues like higher raw material prices, marketing and double taxation by state governments.

State-run power company NTPC has set up a joint venture with the Asian Development Bank and Japan

STATE-OWNED power generator NTPC, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Kyuden International Corporation (Kyushu) of Japan have signed a joint venture agreement to develop renewable power project in the country, reviving an old alliance that fell apart last year after the global financial meltdown.
The joint venture will set up 500 mw of non-conventional power generation capacity in India over thr

The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled plans to begin issuing new offshore wind energy leases as soon as next year under an accelerated approval process.

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New Delhi: Reliance Power group company Rajasthan Sun Technique, Andhrabased Lanco and KVK Energy of Chennai are among the seven successful bidders for setting up solar power plants in the first phase of the government

TATA Power that aims to produce at least 25% of its total power generation from clean sources by 2017, will invest around . 5,000 crore in wind energy alone, said a top company official.

"We have set ourselves a target to achieve 25% of our total generation from clean sources by 2017. These will comprise wind, solar, hydro, geo-thermal and gas.