Paris Climate Change Agreement

Donald Trump's push for fossil fuel dominance through his 'drill, baby, drill' approach endangers global climate efforts and hits vulnerable developing nations the hardest

Multiple cities in India recorded their highest maximum temperatures of the season on Tuesday, the weather body said, naming Rajasthan's Churu as the warmest district so far

Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by the mid-century, a new research has found. Studying changes in land-use patterns and their impacts on biodiversity, an international team of researchers found that biodiversity around the world could have declined by 2-11 per cent. "By including all world regions in our model, we were able to fill many blind spots and address criticism of other approaches working with fragmented and potentially biased data," said Henrique Pereira, research group head at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), and the first author of the study published in the journal 'Science'. Examining how biodiversity and ecosystems might evolve in the future, the researchers found that the combined effects of land-use change and climate change lead to biodiversity loss across all global regions, regardless of emissions scenario. "We found that climate change poses an imminent threat to biodiversity and ecosystem ...

The global shipping industry that is responsible for about 3 per cent of the global GHG emissions and carries nearly 90 per cent of international cargo is one such

Al Suwaidi said the COP28 presidency aimed for a "historic" result that included mentioning fossil fuels - but that it was up to countries to agree

Loss and damage fund may prove underwhelming

The two Koreas cannot by themselves stop the climate crisis, but they can establish a model that the rest of the world can follow.

The climate science profession has seen entire specialties emerge and mature in the years since the IPCC's previous mega-report on science.

Javadekar on Wednesday said India will raise its climate ambitions but "not under pressure", and that it will not allow anybody to forget their historical responsibility

Climate finance promised in 2009 under the Paris agreement are still "not on the table" for developing countries, Javadekar said

India can lead the world's transformation to clean energy and become a "global superpower" in the war on climate change

However, he noted that the world has the force of science, new models of cooperation, and a rising tide of momentum for change.

Extracting and transporting natural gas notably results in significant emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent than CO2.

He said the Paris Climate Agreement was a "disaster" for the US, adding that the deal would have resulted in trillions and trillions of dollars of destruction to America.

US files paperwork to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the first formal step in a one-year process to exit the global pact to fight climate change.

Prakash Javadekar, who attended the 29th BASIC ministers' meeting said the meeting worked out priorities as a group to be highlighted at the UN Climate Change Conference

India is progressing well as 28,000 mega watt of solar power has been installed and operationalised so far.

Time has come to sanction and isolate instigator of terrorism: Modi on Pak at East Asia Summit