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 ...
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Feed SubscriptionIndia 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, ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
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