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As we confront the stark reality of a rapidly changing climate and climate-induced disasters, the role of COP 28 remains more crucial than ever
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One estimate says that meeting the Paris Agreement targets could reduce the price of oil to $10 a barrel by 2050
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Doubling the rate of energy efficiency improvements from 2.2 per cent to over 4 per cent annually across sectors by 2030 is also among the possible elements listed in the UN report for discussion at COP28.
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It also stresses the importance of halting deforestation, reducing non-CO2 emissions, and implementing supply- and demand-side measures.
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A comprehensive database will help us understand the impacts of urban forestry in the country
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The signals emerging from the global climate summit in Egypt are quite disappointing. There is continued wrangling among the nations on the strategy to tide over the climate crisis. After two weeks of intense negotiations among 190 nations at the 27th United Nations Climate Summit — COP27—, the UN came up with the first draft […]
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The clock is ticking away as the climate catastrophe appears imminent. With the rich nations failing to honour their funding commitments in climate change mitigation, the crisis is deepening by the day. In the ongoing global climate summit—COP27—at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, India has rightly put the onus on wealthy nations to substantially enhance the […]
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E-commerce giant Amazon has announced that it will invest more than one billion euros to further electrify its transportation fleet across Europe over the next five years.
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A massive initiative to transition to clean energy is required for India to meet the ambitious target of achieving net zero emissions by 2070. The timeline, unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations climate change conference—COP26 (Conference of the Parties) — at Scotland’s Glasgow, came as a surprise to many because India […]
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The Treaty aims to be a complementary mechanism to the Paris Agreement by directly addressing the fossil fuel industry and putting the just transition at its core
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We need to practise what has been passed down and revere nature to fight climate change
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The goals need to be reframed and redefined in view of the grave implications of climate change
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It must step away from coal while not leaving millions of people in coal-mining regions worse off
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The report finds that in nearly every country that has measured food waste, it was substantial, regardless of income level.
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein and students from the University of Chicago in 1945, created the ‘Doomsday Clock’ as a symbol to represent how close the world is to a possible disaster.
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In order to meet the 1.5°C global warming target in the Paris Agreement, global carbon emissions should reach net zero around mid-century.
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Environment experts also believe that there is a greater need to make lifestyles sustainable on a mass scale.
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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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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.