Climate change

Year 2024: Hottest elections trapped in triple crisis

Year 2024: Hottest elections trapped in triple crisis

March 25, 2024

The year 2024 is all about voting. As many as 76 of the 196 countries in the world will be engaged in  the national elections in which people citizens across the world will decide who will govern them for next few years. The elections, called festivals of democracy, are spread t...

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COP28 moves climate debate from ‘just words’ to just transition

COP28 moves climate debate from ‘just words’ to just transition

December 28, 2023

Oil from the United Arab Emirates is shipped to the outside world starting from narrow Strait of Hormuz and then wider Gulf of Oman and then into vast Ocean to reach various part of the world. Under Presidency of the UAE, the recently concluded climate change negotiations, COP28 ...

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Avaada & Climate group to host 4th Hydrogen Transition Summit

Avaada & Climate group to host 4th Hydrogen Transition Summit

November 29, 2023

With a view to promote clean energy and transition towards green hydrogen, Avaada Group, a frontrunner in the integrated clean energy sector, has joined hands with the Climate Group to host the 4th annual Hydrogen Transition Summit during COP28, the Climate Change Summit that get...

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Govts taking baby steps to curb emissions, warns UN report on climate change

Govts taking baby steps to curb emissions, warns UN report on climate change

November 14, 2023

A new report by the United Nations Climate Change finds national climate action plans remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.Even with increased efforts by some countries, the report shows much more action is need...

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Ladakh residents seek statehood & Constitutional safeguards

Ladakh residents seek statehood & Constitutional safeguards

February 19, 2023

Accusing the government of turning a deaf ear to their long-standing demands, following the division of Jammu and Kashmir state into two union territories, hundreds of people along with environmental activist and educationist, Sonam Wangchuk, staged a daylong protest at Jantar Ma...

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

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

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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Cities & Climate change: Time to stop mindless urbanisation

Cities & Climate change: Time to stop mindless urbanisation

December 6, 2022

In 1920, Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, was a small town that counted barely 20,000 people. Exactly 130 years later, in 2050, the city is expected to be the fourth largest in the world, with 35 million inhabitants, a number that will swell to over 83 milli...

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Eliminating hunger by 2030 need not be a lost cause

Eliminating hunger by 2030 need not be a lost cause

November 10, 2022

Findings in the latest report by Global Hunger Index on the situation of hunger worldwide should not have been a surprise most experts had been warning that hunger was becoming more widespread due to numerous factors like drop in harvests due to climate change, the Ukraine war an...

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

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

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 Africa at CoP 27

Climate Action Network seeks climate justice for Africa at CoP 27

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 Africa

Cop-27 at Sharm El Sheikh is no guarantee for Africa

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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Funding developing countries to seal ozone hole

Funding developing countries to seal ozone hole

September 7, 2022

Ever wondered whatever happened to the Ozone Hole? Not many would be able to even figure out the question, let alone answer it correctly. But little wonder about it since over 60 pc of the world’s population today is born not just after the discovery of the Ozone Hole, but afte...

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