India’s oil demand is projected to rise by 74% by 2040, natural gas demand is expected to more than triple while coal demand is seen rising to 772 million tonnes in 2040 from the current 590. India will overtake the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/the-new-superpower-india-to-overtake-eu-as-worlds-third-largest-energy-consumer-by-2030/

Tax on domestic crude in India is currently levied at the rate of 20 per cent of the value of oil. Official sources said the proposal by the Union Oil Ministry is to reduce it to 10 per cent New _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/as-biden-bans-fracking-india-plans-to-cut-taxes-to-boost-domestic-oil-drilling/

New Delhi asks EU for more details, calls for legal analysis of deal India, the US and a few other countries have expressed apprehensions over the European Green Deal and the impact of carbon border taxes that could be imposed _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/india-expresses-concern-over-eus-green-deal-possible-carbon-taxes/

Contrary to the perception of the mainstream media, China and India are increasing their coal capacity, and not moving away from it On multiple occasions in 2020, soldiers from China and India engaged in border skirmishes resulting in casualties on _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/vijay-jayaraj-china-and-india-are-growing-their-coal-ambitions/

India, China and the US are the biggest climate sceptics despite being three of the world’s biggest producers of emissions, according to a new survey conducted across 142 countries.  Climate change is widely understood as offering an existential threat to _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/india-china-and-the-us-are-the-biggest-climate-sceptics-new-survey/

The demand by UN Secretary General António Guterres for a renewable transition in India do not reflect the reality where cheap fossil fuels have been prioritised by the government. UN secretary general António Guterres has asked India to abandon coal _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/antonio-guterress-anti-coal-push-for-india-unrealistic-and-unwelcome%e2%80%a8/

New Delhi: The monsoon has roared back in August with excess rain of 26%, and is likely to be among the wettest since 1901, when the weather office started recording official data.  Rainfall is already at a record in India’s _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/best-indian-rainfall-since-1901-raises-hopes-for-record-harvest/

Covid-19 might have hit all the economic sectors badly, but luck is favouring Indian agriculture sector this year as there has been 95 per cent equal distribution of rainfall all over the country. Along with historic sowing, and timely rains _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/india-set-to-record-bumper-harvest-as-timely-monsoon-boosts-agriculture/

India has received 14% higher than average rain since the monsoon season began on June 1 Indian farmers have planted 12 million hectares with summer-sown rice, preliminary farm ministry data for this year showed, up 25% from last year as _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/indian-rice-harvest-may-hit-record-high-after-above-average-monsoon-season/

India is on the way to become a fossil fuel-based energy powerhouse of the 21st century. India’s developmental goals for the future are quite ambitious. They ought to be: From tackling the surging poverty rates to providing affordable utilities, the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/vijay-jayaraj-india-crafts-fossil-pathway-to-secure-its-future/

New Delhi: Launching the auction of coal mines for commercial mining, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the coal sector has finally been pulled out of decades in lockdown and liberated. Noting that India having the fourth largest coal _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/india-unleashing-coal-pm-modi-announces-new-coal-boom-privatisation-of-coal-mines/

Barely a week after Cyclone Amphan struck the eastern and Cyclone Nisarga the western coast of India, a study by London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has downplayed the impact of climate change over a 100-year period saying that overall rains, drought and cyclones have not seen _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/indian-media-experts-respond-to-new-gwpf-report-on-extreme-weather/