India

Recently India concluded its hosting of the world’s largest international forum promoting methane capture and use.

Reva Electric Car Co., the Bangalore, Indian-based automaker developing an electric vehicle with General Motors Co., is planning to establish four overseas automaking ventures that could be generate profits while building as few as 5,000 to 10,000 vehicles a year.

The Hurriyet Daily News, an English-language Turkish newspaper, is reporting that the Irish rock band U2 is helping to raise money to support the Dora-1 geothermal power plant in Aydin, Turkey.

Phase one of Indian Energy Ltd.'s (LON:IEL) Theni Wind Farm project has gone fully operational and is connected to the existing grid.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, was considered a bust by many participants and observers.

The Global Wind Energy Council has announced that wind energy grew 31% in 2009.

Solar power is a key to India's plans to tackle climate change, and last week the government said it expects to have 6,000 megawatts of installed solar capacity by 2017.

Within hours, 2009 will be coming to a close:  a perfect time to take stock of what this past year had to offer. 

Recently, President Barack Obama and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that commits their nations to work together on the development and deployment of clean energy technology.

With the advent of the U.N. Climate Change Framework Convention in Copenhagen, a lot of attention has turned to the countries that use the most energy and cause the most pollution.