Page 22 - Latest Updates on Climate Change
Climate change is making India's monsoon more erratic, says report
The summer monsoon in 2021 kept India guessing, even on its way out. Expect more of the same in future, say climate change assessments
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RIL's giga-sized green game plan bets heavily on inorganic growth
By swiftly tying up deals on the basics - manufacture, storage, construction - the petroleum giant has taken the first significant step toward meeting its clean energy goals
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Global climate action: Indian banks need to accelerate green financing
Indian banks need to move away from financing fossil fuels projects and prioritise lending to renewable energy and other environmentally sustainable projects
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Right to clean environment breakthrough moment: UN agency head
This right has been rooted in the 1972 Stockholm Declaration
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Climate truth-tellers
For long, climate change deniers rejected these models as unverifiable and results of questionable inputs
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Coal's problems are governance, not climate regulation
In a few short weeks, the world's leaders will gather for the United Nations' 26th Conference on Parties
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Google to ban ads appearing next to climate denial content
The new rules will prohibit ads for, and monetisation of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change
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Getting to grips with net-zero
India has unleashed a variety of policies and measures to reach the net-zero goal
Trio get Physics Nobel for work on climate change, complex physical systems
Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann, and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics
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Global airlines deepen climate goal despite Chinese opposition
IATA Director General Willie Walsh acknowledged the goal would be "an additional challenge at a very difficult time," but appealed for unity.
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Clash of economy and ecology in global politics
These 30 years have also taught us that we cannot ensure sustainable growth unless it is affordable and inclusive
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Social media is reducing climate change debates to your views on veganism
This appears to be further cementing the idea that climate change is a matter of ideology, making it harder to convince people to support action to tackle it.
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Centre forms expert committee for sustainable climate finance
India has on multiple international, reiterated that the developed countries, the rich nations, must provide finance for the poor countries
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Debt for climate and green power
India's climate targets are not conditional, but its negotiating position has been that finance and technology must be made available to developing countries
Investors with $4 trn assets aim to tackle Asian firms on climate goals
A group of six investors with a combined $4 trillion of assets under management, including Fidelity International, said on Wednesday it aims to step up engagement with big Asian companies
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On climate change, Biden $3.5 trillion plan making up for lost time
Joe Biden said climate change is everybody's crisis and America must get serious about the code red danger posed by global warming
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Climate change challenge for entire ecosystem: PM Narendra Modi
Modi said that steps taken to create a seeds-to-market ecosystem will ensure the country's strong economic growth
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Thunberg chides world leaders for 'blah, blah, blah' on climate
Thunberg, who coalesced the global protest movement Fridays for Future, optimistically said it wasn't too late to reverse climate trends
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PM calls for bolstering efforts to tackle climate change impact on farming
Modi interacted with farmers from different states
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Reducing cyclone impacts: Double benefits of climate protection
Increasing global warming from currently one to two degrees Celsius by mid-century might put about 25 per cent more people at risk of tropical cyclones, a new study has found out.
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