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IPCC report endorses India's call for climate justice: Bhupender Yadav

The Report notes that finance flows from developed to developing countries fall short of the levels needed to meet climate goals across all sectors and regions

India faces the highest risk from climate change's impact, says IPCC

India is the centre of global climate investment but it needs to distribute finances equally to adaptation along with mitigation efforts in the clean energy space

IPCC's 'final' warning: Current goals not enough to limit global warming

To safeguard against the inevitable climate hazards, the IPCC has laid emphasis on 'climate resilient development'

Stop funding new oil & gas plans, expanding reserves: UN Chief Guterres

G20 leaders should aim for a new set of carbon reduction targets by November, says Guterres

UN chief urges faster shift to 'net zero' after report shows climate threat

New climate report details urgent need to cut emissions

Hot, cold, and deadly: The human cost of India's extreme temperatures

In January, northern India bore the brunt of cold waves, and now as the summer begins, temperatures are soaring

Coal vs gas, or coal and gas?

Coal is bad, and so is natural gas, when it comes to climate change. Then why is it that the Western world, which has to date built its economy on dirty coal, is now wedded to gas as its dream fuel?

The high road to net zero: How CCUS can speed up India's transition plan

Carbon capture utilisation technology can play a crucial role in reducing CO2 emissions, provided the government shapes a workable regulatory framework first

Govt sets up committee to monitor impact of rise in temp on wheat crop

The government on Monday said it has set up a committee to monitor the impact of rise in temperature on the wheat crop. The move comes amid a forecast by the National Crop Forecast Centre (NCFC) that maximum temperature in major wheat producing areas barring Madhya Pradesh was higher-than-average of the last seven years during the first week of February. Even the Met Department has projected above-normal temperature in Gujarat, Jammu, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, in next two days. Speaking to reporters, Agriculture Secretary Manoj Ahuja said, "We have set up a committee to monitor the situation arising due to increase in temperature on the wheat crop." The committee will issue advisories to farmers on adopting micro irrigation, he said. The committee, to be headed by the Agriculture Commissioner, will also have members from Karnal-based Wheat Research Institute and representatives from major wheat growing states, he added. The Secretary, however, said there won't be an impac

CO2 arbitrage will make heroes

To avoid capital destruction, simulate a business model under a correct shadow price of carbon

All at sea

The impact of warming oceans is a neglected threat

R K Singh calls on G20 partners to come together against global warming

Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy RK Singh on Sunday called upon the G20 member countries to come together in countering the challenges posed by global warming and climate change

Prospects of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees vey low: Report

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, according to a new report. Climate policy, protests, and the Ukraine crisis - The participating researchers systematically assessed to what extent social changes are already underway, while also analyzing certain physical processes frequently discussed as tipping points. The researchers concluded that social change is essential to meeting the temperature goals set in Paris. But what has been achieved to date is insufficient, they said. Accordingly, climate adaptation will also have to be approached from a new angle, said the report. The central report was released by Universitt Hamburg's Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS). The interdisciplinary team of researchers addressed ten important drivers of social change, the report said. "Actually, when it comes to climate protection, some things have now been set in motion. But if you look at the development of social processes

Adequate, affordable finance a constraint in climate action: Eco Survey

The availability of adequate and affordable finance remains a constraint in India's climate actions, the Economic Survey for 2022-23 tabled in Parliament on Tuesday said. The country's climate actions have so far been largely financed from domestic sources only, including government budgetary support, a mix of market mechanisms, fiscal instruments and policy interventions, it added. While several estimates of the required investments are indicated in the long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS) report prepared by India, it is important to note that all allude to a need for tens of trillions of US dollars, it said. While India is less responsible for the high stock of emissions, it has consistently engaged in demonstrating global leadership towards adopting various measures and ensuring a low-emission growth pathway, with a commitment to the net-zero emissions goal by 2070, it added. "India's climate ambitions require resources to be dedicated to the ca

2001-2011 warmest decade in the last millennium in central Greenland: Study

The scientists also found that the region was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than during the 20th century

2022 fifth warmest year on record; trend alarming, says NASA analysis

Earth's average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an analysis by (NASA). Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2022 were 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0.89 degrees Celsius, above the average for NASA's baseline period 1951-1980, scientists from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York reported. "This warming trend is alarming," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "Our warming climate is already making a mark: Forest fires are intensifying; hurricanes are getting stronger; droughts are wreaking havoc and sea levels are rising. NASA is deepening our commitment to do our part in addressing climate change," said Nelson. The past nine years have been the warmest years since modern recordkeeping began in 1880. This meant Earth in 2022 was about 2 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 1.11 degrees Celsius, warmer than the late 19th century average, the study said. "The reason for the warming

2022 was fifth warmest year on record, situation alarming: NASA analysis

The global temperatures in 2022 were 1.6-degree Fahrenheit (0.89-degree Celsius) above the average for NASA's baseline period (1951-1980)

Multilateral bodies need to be rejigged for more climate finance: Kant

India would focus on sustainable development at the ongoing G20 deliberations

2022 confirmed as one of warmest years on record, fueled by GHGs: WMO

The past 8 years were the warmest on record globally, fueled by ever-rising greenhouse gas concentrations and accumulated heat, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Two-thirds of glaciers to disappear by 2100 amid faster melting: Study

The world's glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of the century at current climate change trends, according to a new study. But if the world can limit future warming to just a few more tenths of a degree and fulfill international goals technically possible but unlikely according to many scientists then slightly less than half the globe's glaciers will disappear, said the same study. Mostly small but well-known glaciers are marching to extinction, study authors said. In an also unlikely worst-case scenario of several degrees of warming, 83 per cent of the world's glaciers would likely disappear by the year 2100, study authors said. The study in Thursday's journal Science examined all of the globe's 215,000 land-based glaciers -- not counting those on ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica -- in a more comprehensive way than past studies. Scientists then used computer simulation