Tag: Climate Change
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Terrorism, WMDs, climate change today’s critical challenges: Sushma Swaraj
New Delhi : Terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and climate change are the three critical challenges the world is facing today, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday. “There was a time when India would talk about terrorism, and it would be treated as a law and order issue on many…
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India succeeds in evolving global climate roadmap (2018 In Retrospect)
By Vishal Gulati, New Delhi : Clearing the smoke of uncertainty over the issue of a cleaner environment, India this year succeeded in its multilateral diplomacy to evolve a roadmap for the international community to decisively address climate change. Also, India’s success in renewable energy auctions, in reducing emissions besides its largest commitment to eliminate…
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Is climate change apocalypse real? Practice is better than preaching
By Arul Louis, Is the looming climate change apocalypse real? In the clearly-demarcated battle lines, the good guys are those who believe it is and the bad guys, like US President Donald Trump, are the doubters as any progressive and most of the media would affirm. Yet it is also the good guys, the warriors…
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Leveraging community leaders to build resilience against climate change in urban areas
By Vineeth Menon and Shreejith Borthakur, While cities cover only two per cent of the global land area, they contribute around 70 per cent of the global greenhouse emissions, one of the main drivers of climate change. The UN forecasts that urbanisation and population growth could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by…
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India will ‘overachieve’ Paris commitments: Experts
By Vishal Gulati, Katowice (Poland) : At a time when there is a call for all countries to do more to fight climate change, India is telling the world at the ongoing UN climate negotiations, COP24, that it is in a position to comfortably overachieve its Paris climate change commitments, and will do more. India…
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Poland seeks to send a climate-change message to the world
By Rajendra Shende, Is humanity in peril due to climate change? The much-publicised underwater meeting of the Maldavian cabinet 2009, just about two months before the 15th UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 15), was deemed to have already responded to that question, albeit symbolically. Maldavian ministers, led by then President Mohamed Nasheed, literally went…
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Need to work unitedly to tackle terrorism, climate change: Modi
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that only refraining from war cannot ensure peace. Instead, there is a need for “united universal cooperation” to combat terrorism, climate change and for economic development and social justice. Modi made the remarks in his monthly radio programme “Mann Ki Baat”, ahead of November 11…
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Carbon pricing: How politics makes implementation difficult
By Amit Kapoor, In a curious happenstance last week, two global events put the spotlight on the critical issue of climate change. First, the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change issued a landmark report which painted a far more ominous picture of the consequences of climate change and called for a transformation of the…
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Pakistan kicks off tree plantation campaign against climate change
Islamabad : Pakistan on Sunday kicked off the “Plant for Pakistan” campaign by Prime Minister Imran Khan who in the drive planted a sapling in the country’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The campaign “Ten Billion Trees Tsunami” aims at combating the effects of climate change by planting over ten billion trees across the country during the five-year…
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India increases grants to $15m to handle global environment crises
By Vishal Gulati, Da Nang (Vietnam) : Playing a crucial role to mitigate climate change and other environmental challenges across the globe, India on Tuesday announced it will increase for the next four years the money it pays to the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a mechanism to provide grants for environment projects. India’s representative to…