“India is the front runner in mitigating climate change globally and is progressing fast on its energy transition agenda. Today’s event marks the extent to which India is willing to innovate to keep its pledge of protecting the environment while simultaneously addressing
India secured 8th position in the index, up two places from the last edition, in the latest Climate Change Performance Index 2023 report. Since no country was strong enough in all index categories to achieve an overall very high rating, thus the
Certain mangrove species in Chilika and Sundarbans along the east coast and Dwarka and Porbandar along the west coast of India is likely to reduce and shift landward by 2070 due to decline in suitable habitats in response to precipitation and sea
A new multi-institutional report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlights the great distance between aspirations and climate reality and warns that, if “much more ambitious” measures are not adopted, the “physical and socioeconomic” consequences of climate change “will be increasingly more devastating.”
Two more US military planes carrying tons of aid for Pakistan affected by heavy monsoon rains landed in the southern province of Sindh, one of the hardest-hit regions of the impoverished country, on Sunday. Saif Ullah, a spokesman for the country’s Civil
A new study warns that the current rate of warming of the Earth from greenhouse gas emissions could push the planet past several “irreversible” climate tipping points by 2030. The study, published Friday in the journal Science, calls for limiting extreme warming
Rich countries have said they will spend around $25 billion by 2025 to boost Africa’s efforts to adapt to climate change, officials said at a summit on the weather in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Monday. The summit is the first to bring
Simon Stiell of Grenada has been appointed as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres made the announcement today. The appointment has been made after consultation with the Conference of Parties through
India will ban the export of carbon credits to companies until they meet its climate targets, power and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh told lawmakers debating changes to the country’s energy conservation law on Monday. “Carbon credits are not going to
Renewable energy firm ReNew Power has tied up with HSBC India to electrify 75 schools in three states with solar energy and create awareness about climate change in the school curriculum, they said that under the programme, digital labs would be set
