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How Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' call threatens India, developing nations

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

Updated On: 21 Jan 2025 | 4:31 PM IST

India sizzles at 50 degrees Celsius: A look at world record temperatures

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

Updated On: 02 Jun 2024 | 11:05 AM IST

Climate change could become main driver of biodiversity decline: Study

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 ...

Updated On: 27 Apr 2024 | 10:51 AM IST

Ports shipping lines may charge more for fighting climate change

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

Updated On: 18 Dec 2023 | 1:20 AM IST

COP28 summit forced into overtime as fossil fuel talks divide nations

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

Updated On: 12 Dec 2023 | 10:21 PM IST

Scale and ambition

Loss and damage fund may prove underwhelming

Updated On: 03 Dec 2023 | 11:08 PM IST

How the two Koreas can establish a model to handle climate crisis

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

Updated On: 18 Aug 2021 | 8:55 AM IST

UN panel's historic climate change report is 'Code Red for humanity'

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

Updated On: 09 Aug 2021 | 5:53 PM IST

India will raise climate ambitions but 'not under pressure': Javadekar

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

Updated On: 14 Apr 2021 | 8:47 PM IST

Climate finance still not on table for developing countries: Javadekar

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

Updated On: 15 Mar 2021 | 7:13 PM IST

India can be 'global superpower' in fighting climate change: Guterres

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

Updated On: 28 Aug 2020 | 12:22 PM IST

UN chief urges nations to curb pollution to keep Paris Agreement realistic

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

Updated On: 12 Dec 2019 | 12:07 AM IST

Is natural gas key to sustainable development model? NGOs think otherwise

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

Updated On: 22 Nov 2019 | 10:43 PM IST

Garbage from India, China, Russia comes floating to Los Angeles, says Trump

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.

Updated On: 14 Nov 2019 | 1:05 AM IST

Macron, Xi to sign 'irreversible' Paris climate change deal after US exit

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.

Updated On: 05 Nov 2019 | 6:56 AM IST

BASIC countries call on developed nations to adhere to Paris climate deal

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

Updated On: 27 Oct 2019 | 3:44 PM IST

India making progress in achieving Paris pact goals to check climate change

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

Updated On: 01 Jul 2019 | 4:16 PM IST

No decision on ratifying Paris treaty by year-end: India

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

Updated On: 09 Sep 2016 | 1:50 AM IST