Environment
‘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 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...
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...
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 ...
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 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
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...
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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Climate Action Network seeks climate justice for A...
October 17, 2022
One of the most divisive issues that is set to dominate the discussions when global leaders assemble in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm El Sheikh would be climate finance. For over a decade, the rich world, that has been responsible for an overwhelming proportion of tot...
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Cop-27 at Sharm El Sheikh is no guarantee for Afri...
October 14, 2022
At the ongoing United Nations General Assembly’s annual sittings in New York, there are several issues that have been on the centre-stage, ranging from of course the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the energy and food crisis which is partly linked to the conflict, ...
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