COP27 approves landmark ‘loss & damage’ fund, Indian climate experts welcome deal
New Delhi: Developed nations, particularly the US, had opposed this new fund over fears that it would hold them legally liable for massive damages caused by climate change
BY PTI / Sunday, 20 November, 2022
Climate summit: India flags concerns over rich nations’ efforts to extend scope of mitigation to agriculture
New Delhi: India made it clear that the world is facing a climate crisis today because of the excessive historic cumulative emissions by the developed nations
BY PTI / Friday, 18 November, 2022
United Nations COP 27: Nagaland’s Community-Centric Nature Conservation acknowledged in Conference held in Egypt
Kohima: The 27th edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) to UNFCCC started on Sunday. Nagaland’s team is being led by Dharmendra Prakash, IFS, and accompanied by M Senthil Kumar, IFS and Dr Atoho Jakhalu
BY NTN / Thursday, 17 November, 2022
Assam elephant mistreated again’ in Tamil Nadu temple: PETA
Guwahati/Chennai: PETA said they found that Joymala, the elephant, is back in chains on a concrete floor inside a shed in solitary confinement
BY PTI / Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
India ranks 8 in climate protection, “on track” to meet its 2030 emissions targets: report
New Delhi: The report leaves the first three places empty as "no country performed well enough in all index categories to achieve an overall very high rating"
BY PTI / Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
COP27: India resists calls to raise ambitions, says rich nations must reach net zero before 2030
New Delhi: Last week, developed countries proposed that discussions on a new plan to scale up mitigation and ambition should focus on all top 20 emitters which India blocked with support from like-minded developing countries
BY PTI / Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
From recycled cigarette butts, Code Effort now plans to make air purifiers
New Delhi: Focused on sustainability, the startup is recycling cigarette butts into different products for more than 4 years now and is even exploring the possibility of making air purifiers with it
BY PTI / Sunday, 13 November, 2022
Paris Agreement requires phase down of all fossil fuels: India at COP27
New Delhi: The negotiations at the UN climate summit last year (COP26) in Glasgow ended with an agreement on phasing down the unabated use of coal instead of phasing out
BY PTI / Sunday, 13 November, 2022
Climate finance scarce; early warning systems key to saving lives, livelihoods: Bhupender Yadav at COP27
New Delhi: Yadav said that deaths in India due to cyclones have reduced by up to 90 per cent in the last 15 years adding that early warning systems cover almost the entire east and west coasts
BY PTI / Monday, 7 November, 2022
Cheetahs flown from Namibia kill first prey on Indian soil
Sheopur: The successful first hunt by the cheetahs within 24 hours of moving to the larger enclosure has allayed the park management's concerns about their prey hunting ability
BY PTI / Monday, 7 November, 2022
A billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than average person: Oxfam report
New Delhi: 125 billionaires fund 393 million tonnes of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) per year, which is equal to the annual carbon emissions of France, a nation of 67 million people
BY PTI / Monday, 7 November, 2022
Drive launched to keep Olive Ridley turtle habitation free, 9 fishermen held
Kendrapara/Berhampur: The mass nesting of the turtles, a schedule-1 animal under wildlife protection act for its highly threatened status, takes place in late Feb or early March
BY PTI / Sunday, 6 November, 2022
