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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...
Read More350.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...
Read MoreCOP27 agreement on Loss & Damage Fund key for poor nations
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...
Read MoreWeeks 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...
Read MoreRich world dodges climate finance & climate equity at COP26
November 14, 2021
For months leading up to the opening of COP26, the 26th meeting of Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dozens of reputed scientific organisations had said that it was really the last chance to pull the world back from the b...
Read MoreCOP26 headed to failure despite carbon to coal commitments
November 4, 2021
Even before the latest climate change summit, COP26, began at Glasgow earlier this year, there were more than enough warnings and definitely more than adequate evidence that the world had already turn out of time in meeting the climate change threat head on and that the Glasgow s...
Read MoreHigh energy prices could derail COP26
October 29, 2021
A report by the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, released barely a week before the opening of COP26, the global climate change summit in Glasgow that begins tomorrow, says that the commitments made so far by different countries to cut carbon emissions by 2030 are far s...
Read MoreRace to Zero: Unique opportunity for G7 and Modi
June 4, 2021
Modi’s image appears to be tarnished, mainly in the western media, that has found governance-gaps in his management of second wave of COVID pandemic. On the other hand, the world’s seven rich countries have recognised India’s emerging strategic role in economic, social ...
Read MoreWith US back in, time for fresh start for Paris Agreement
January 22, 2021
True to his campaign promise, within hours of taking office, the newly elected President of the United States, Joe Biden, annulled his predecessor Donald Trump’s decision on June 2017 to exit the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, paving way for the world’s largest economy an...
Read MoreCarbon neutral economy can be historical ‘new normal’
December 11, 2020
December 12, 2020, marks the 5th Anniversary of Paris Climate Agreement. The year 2020 is the only year since 1992 when the annual global meeting of United Nations Framework Conventions on Climate Change, UNFCCC, has not been held, due to COVID restrictions. Paradoxically, each y...
Read MoreCourse corrections in United States policies for President-Elect Joe Biden
November 8, 2020
the President-Elect of United States Joe Biden said he would immediately reverse the ban on travel from 13-odd Muslim majority nations
Read MoreBig ticket investments in oil & gas as Modi opens India Energy Forum
October 28, 2020
Inaugurating the fourth edition of the India Energy Forum-CERA Week, earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured the participants that India was well on track to meet its commitment of 275 GW of installed capacity in renewable energy by the year 2022.
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