Paris agreement
Nov 22, 2020 20:40
In keeping with its traditional ethos of living in harmony with the environment, India has adopted low carbon and climate resilient development practices, PM Modi told the meeting. read more
Oct 27, 2020 18:04
Japan will need to more than quadruple the pace at which it shuts down coal plants and rapidly ramp up renewable energy capacity over the next decade to meet its new climate pledge to zero out emissions by 2050. read more
Sep 14, 2020 21:18
A coalition of 44 low-lying nations has sounded alarm bells saying they are sinking not just because of climate change impacts but are also neck-deep in debt. read more
May 20, 2020 18:40
The drastic dip in emissions should be used as a moment to imagine a new world read more
Apr 22, 2020 19:22
Prakash Javadekar said in 2009 the world had agreed that developed countries will mobilise 100 billion dollars every year for climate adaptation and mitigation. read more
Feb 02, 2020 03:15
During her budget speech in Parliament on Saturday, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the country’s commitments will be executed in various sectors “by the departments\/ministries concerned through the normal budgeting process”. read more
Feb 02, 2020 03:01
Apart from the financial boost to large cities implementing the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said state utilities will be advised to close down old thermal power plants that do not meet the emission ... read more
Jan 31, 2020 06:03
Thunberg, 17, was mentioned as a possible Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2019, when the honour ultimately went to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his efforts to resolve a long-running conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. read more
Jan 11, 2020 04:29
The 2015 Paris agreement saw nations commit to limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels as a way of curbing the worst impacts of global warming. read more
Jan 01, 2020 02:53
But the United Nations climate talks in Madrid in December failed to respond to these crises. The year 2020 will be a pivotal year for climate action — it can make or break the Paris Agreement. read more
Dec 21, 2019 01:03
India is hopeful that there will be resolution on issues which matter to the country at the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held in Glasgow next year. read more
Dec 12, 2019 07:28
The Paris agreement was adopted by 195 parties at the UN climate conference “COP 21” held in the French capital in 2015 with an aim to reduce the hazardous greenhouse gas emissions. read more
Dec 05, 2019 01:15
Carbon markets, which are in the Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, are one of the main tools to keep mean global temperature rise under 2 degree C by capping global emissions globally after 2020. read more
Nov 14, 2019 07:37
The project is funded by the Green Climate Fund, established within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to assist developing countries. read more
Nov 12, 2019 12:51
The study says, India had the most ambitious NDC and it could align it with the ‘1.5 degree C target’ if it “continued to abandon planned coal-fired power plants in favour of cheaper renewable energy technology”. read more
