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Biden also noted the importance of cooperation, including through multilateral organisations, on shared challenges such as combatting climate change, containing COVID-19.
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The Paris accord committed the US and 187 other countries to keeping rising global temperatures below 2C above pre-industrial levels.
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His first executive order was launching his 100-day masking challenge, asking Americans to mask up for 100 days.
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She led America's Power Plan, bringing together 200 electricity policy experts, at Energy Innovation, of which she was a co-founder and Vice President, according to the biography from Biden's transition team.
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Adaptation - reducing countries' and communities' vulnerability to climate change by increasing their ability to absorb impacts - is a key pillar of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
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From sea sponges that can build spaceships to durians generating electricity, the year has also led to some pathbreaking innovations
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The Dalai Lama will join in a conversation on The Crisis of Climate Feedback Loops.
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Union Minister of Environment Prakash Javadekar said that climate change is not an overnight phenomenon and it has taken shape in the last 100 years.
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According to the industry sources, the company plans to launch the range in New Zealand over the next 6-9 months.
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The UN chief asked the developed countries to fulfil their climate finance commitments.
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Thousands had been left homeless, electricity and water services were destroyed, while trees were downed and roofs ripped off houses.
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The flooding brings the death toll from more than two months of torrential rains ravaging Colombia to 27, with thousands of people flooded out of their homes.
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This was the first interaction between the two leaders after Democrat Biden defeated incumbent president Donald Trump in the US presidential election
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Deforestation and habitat loss also harms the natural cycles of ecosystems, affecting all stages of animal life from reproduction, to migration, to mating.
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The list of grantees include international NGOs and climate justice groups, among others.
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On November 4, the US formally withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a decision originally announced three years ago.
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Even as Covid-19 infections spike, Trump has stuck to his guns, downplaying the dangers and branding Democrats as rampaging "socialists" intent on shuttering the country.
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Over the past years, Infosys has reduced its per capita electricity consumption by over 55 per cent with the ambition to transition to renewable energy.
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The highest numbers of dolphin killings are in Asia, Africa, and South America. Dolphin meat is consumed in a few parts of the world even though it is suspected to have high concentrations of mercury.
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In 2017, Trump pulled the US out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, saying the international deal to keep global temperatures rises below 2 degree Celsius was disadvantageous to US workers.
