- India on Thursday announced its post - 2020 `climate action plan', promising to reduce emission intensity by 33-35% by 2030 over the 2005 levels, boost clean energy in electricity generation to 40% while adding carbon sinks - tree and forest cover to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere -amounting to 2.5-3 billion tonnes of CO2.
- India is the Third largest emitter -fourth, if o counts EU as a single entity -accounts for less than 7% greenhouse gases (GHG While US and China ha agreed to converge at 12 tonn of CO2 per capita by 2030, India is still far lower that these emission levels.
- Ancient Mahavira sculpture found in at Sundarajapuram, a village 10km from Andipatti in Theni district (Tamil Nadu).
- on September 18, India has added a cumulative grid-connected solar capacity of 4,262 MW. Among the states, Rajasthan tops the table in solar capacity addition with the state contributing 1,175 MW capacity.Second Gujarat, third Madhya Pradesh, Fourth Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
- Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Friday (02.10.2015) inaugurated a mobile museum on Mahatma Gandhi's life an times at his birth place Porbandar.
Thanks and Reference to: The Hindu and Times of India News Paper.
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