On the energy demand and supply side, India is facing severe shortages. In India, energy demand is increasing at the rate of 9% per annum and supply is not keeping pace. Present deficit of electrical energy is 8%. India, being one of the most populated and developing countries, will be affected to the maximum. Presently most of the petroleum products are imported and steady rise in their prices is affecting the Indian economy..............
The sustainable management of water in agriculture is becoming a key issue for policy makers. Globally, demand for water for human needs has been growing at more than twice the rate of the population increase during this century, and already a number of regions are chronically short of water. Over the last decades, most of the increase in the world’s food supply has come from the expansion of irrigated lands, which now account for around 20 per cent of the volume and about 40 per cent of the value of crop production on 17 per cent of agricultural land.............
Climate change is recognised as one of the key challenges facing the world in the 21st Century. It engages the energy sector particularly closely because energy is central both to the problem and to its resolution. Energy-related emissions (including energy used in transportation) account for over two thirds of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions and contribute well over 80% of worldwide emissions of CO2, the main ghg, as a direct result of fossil fuel combustion...........