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Earth's string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end this past July as the natural El Nino climate pattern ebbed, the European climate agency Copernicus announced Wednesday. But July 2024's average heat just missed surpassing the July of a year ago, and scientists said the end of the record-breaking streak changes nothing about the threat posed by climate change. "The overall context hasn't changed," Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess said in a statement. "Our climate continues to warm." Human-caused climate change drives extreme weather events that are wreaking havoc around the globe, with several examples just in recent weeks. In Cape Town, South Africa, thousands were displaced by torrential rain, gale-force winds, flooding and more. A fatal landslide hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island. Beryl left a massive path of destruction as it set the record for the earliest Category 4 hurricane. And Japanese authorities said more than 120 people died in

Future climate-change COPs can focus on other consequential issues, rather than on crafting the right mix of hollow words that everyone can agree on

It looks like the global energy transition will depend on how well policymakers can cooperate and influence legacy sectors

He further said that India is also fulfilling its promises at the Paris Agreement data fastpace and is moving in the right direction

Forming agreement over future of fossil fuels and who pays for climate damages on agenda

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Monday launched the Bengaluru Climate Action and Resilience Plan (BCAP) with an eye to achieving net-zero by 2050 to create a roadmap for a safer, healthier and more equitable city. With this initiative, the city's civic body said it plans to make Bengaluru one of the few cities in the world, and the third city in India, to have a global standard climate action plan. As part of the city's C40 cities commitment, Bengaluru has been preparing a data-driven, inclusive and collaborative climate action plan with a focus on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and building healthy, equitable and resilient communities. C40 is a global network of nearly 100 Mayors of the world's leading cities that are united in action to confront the climate crisis. As a part of the launch, BBMP has also announced two priority initiatives that will be taken up immediately including creation of a Climate Action Cell at BBMP to facilitate efficient ...

With the US unable or unwilling to make any credible commitments, the rest of the world is floundering around trying to compensate for its lack of leadership

On fast-tracking the energy transition, Al Jaber said it must be fair, well managed and responsible that leave no one behind

Decreased ice cover has a significant and lasting impact on weather patterns, human populations, and ecosystems

As India assumes the presidency of the G20, the world counts on it to mobilise credible actions to deliver on the 2030 Development Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday. In his message to a special India@75' event on Showcasing the India-UN Partnership in Action', the UN chief underlined that as home to the largest youth generation in history, India will be decisive in the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). "Looking ahead, India, home to the largest youth generation in history will be decisive in the success of the Sustainable Development Goals, and reiterating Prime Minister Modi - as you reform the world transforms, Guterres said. The event here was organised by the Government of India and the United Nations to highlight India's partnership with the UN, its South-South Cooperation, its development journey and achievements in the 75th year of its independence. It was held on the margins of the high-level UN

Sitharaman made the remarks while answering a question during a panel discussion at the Atlantic Council, a US-based think tank

The state government claims to have succeeded in creating a culture of climate action in Maharashtra, which has borne expenses worth $2 billion due to climate-related disasters during the past year

"Since 2017, we have had more renewable energy in the energy mix in India than fossil fuels", says Harsh Shringla, Foreign Secretary

Over the next two decades, governments are collectively projecting an increase in oil and gas production, and only a modest decrease in coal production

India is all set to meet its Paris climate agreement target to reduce emissions by 33-35 per cent of its GDP by 2030 from the 2005 level, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has told the IMF

UK will urge world leaders at the upcoming 26th session of COP 26 to pledge their commitment to stopping and reversing deforestation, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions

Scientists have been increasingly vocal and specific about what will happen if the global temperature continues to rise

Part of the problem is that global automakers design their cars, vans and motorcycles to win over well-heeled customers in the West, largely ignoring the needs of potential buyers in poorer markets

These plants will endanger Paris climate goals despite the availability of cheaper renewables, a report by financial think tank Carbon Tracker said

Projects in development will remove only a fraction of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air that needs extracting by 2025 to meet the global Paris climate target