Environment

350.org appeals for ambitious agreement on climate crisis at G7 Hiroshima Summit

350.org appeals for ambitious agreement on climate...

December 27, 2022

The new year will see Germany pass on the mantle of G7 grouping of developed economies to Japan. With the world’s leading industrialised nations also responsible for an overwhelming share of the global carbon emissions, both historically and current, at least on per capita basi...

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Heat pumps can reduce biogas carbon footprint by 36 pc, says Glasgow University

Heat pumps can reduce biogas carbon footprint by 3...

December 22, 2022

An alternative source of heat could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of a process which turns food waste into power, new research suggests. According to a press statement, a team of scientists at University of Glasgow has demonstrated that using air-source heat pumps to ...

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‘Landmark’ deal to save biodiversity reached at COP15 in Montreal

‘Landmark’ deal to save biodiversity reached a...

December 19, 2022

In a rare development, a global gathering on protecting biodiversity has concluded on time and with an ambitious agreement in place. After over two weeks of heated discussions and debates, representatives of about 190 countries from around the world agreed on a historic package ...

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Human activity devastating marine species, says IUCN at biodiversity meet in Montreal

Human activity devastating marine species, says IU...

December 9, 2022

A startling report presented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), at the ongoing COP15 Montreal Biodiversity Conference, says that the existence of an increasingly large number of marine species is threatened by human activity. The latest update to the IU...

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India’s Purnima Devi Barman among UNEP Champions of the Earth

India’s Purnima Devi Barman among UNEP Champions...

November 23, 2022

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has named its 2022 Champions of the Earth, with five persons, including a conservationist, an enterprise, an economist, a women’s rights activist, and a wildlife biologist for their transformative action to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem...

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COP27 agreement on Loss & Damage Fund key for poor nations

COP27 agreement on Loss & Damage Fund key for...

November 20, 2022

At the end, it seemed like an encore. COP27, the climate change summit at Sharm El Sheikh, the Egyptian Red Sea resort town, was supposed to end on November 18. However, right from the opening plenary, the meeting was wracked by a deep divide between the rich and the poor countri...

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Global network of universities formed at COP27 to fight climate change

Global network of universities formed at COP27 to ...

November 19, 2022

Former Minister of Environment of India, Prakash Javadekar and Erik Solheim former Minister of Environment of Norway, have jointly launched a global network of Universities for Carbon Neutrality that will sensitise the students and faculty to climate change and carbon emissions o...

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Breakthrough agenda at COP27 to accelerate decarbonisation

Breakthrough agenda at COP27 to accelerate decarbo...

November 12, 2022

Governments of representing over half of global GDP have reached agreement on a 12-month action plan to help make clean technologies cheaper and more accessible everywhere. They launched a package of 25 new collaborative actions to be delivered by COP28 to speed up the decarbonis...

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COP27 should be all about Climate Justice

COP27 should be all about Climate Justice

October 31, 2022

Never in the history of UN’s Climate Change Conference African continent has been so well prepared.  On the eve of the global meet, COP 27, to be held at Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, in Egypt, in about a week, the delegates from African countries are well set to mak...

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Weeks before COP27, UN Climate Change says current plans not enough

Weeks before COP27, UN Climate Change says current...

October 26, 2022

A new report from UN Climate Change has asked countries to set far more ambitious targets for themselves for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions as the current efforts are not enough to limit global warming. The report released today shows that while some countries are managin...

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