In the absence of a clear policy on the carbon accounting, especially on double claiming, the private and international investment in carbon capture projects may slow down. It is proposed that the government authorises the projects in agriculture, involving private investments, for use by any international mitigation purpose, with the Corresponding Adjustment. It will help in realizing the best possible price for such generated carbon credits making the projects viable and benefiting the farmers
April 13, 2022The CAFMD dialogue was launched by India's Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav and the US Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry.
September 13, 2021The Environment Minister had a detailed meeting with Alok Sharma, COP26 President-Designate, the UK in New Delhi today wherein they discussed issues relating to climate change, COP26, India-UK 2030 Roadmap, and other related matters.
August 19, 2021Ministry of New and Renewable Energy announced that the total installed renewable energy capacity in India, excluding large hydropower, has crossed the milestone of 100 GW or 100,000 MW, about 26 per cent of the total capacity, a turning point in the history of renewables as India is celebrating 75th Independence Day.
August 14, 2021Donald Trump’s campaign suggested opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploration, whereas the Biden campaign says it would permanently protect the ANWR from energy development
November 13, 2020The context in which the UN was born in 1945 has changed. The engine of growth has shifted to the Asia-Pacific. While China finds a place at the high table India is denied this privilege in spite of its impressive GDP
October 11, 2020To the contrary, the postponement has bought them more time to comprehend the situation and formulate green recovery strategies.
June 3, 2020Humanity is running out of time. It will be a race against time if concrete action is not taken sooner rather than later. Before the Madrid conference, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, observed that the world's efforts to stop climate change have been utterly inadequate with global warming reaching a point of no return.
January 8, 2020On Monday, as 40 heads of state took turns working similar themes, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen at one point held up a stuffed polar bear.
December 6, 2019As the world's largest renewable energy producer and consumer, China vigorously promotes energy transition. In 2018, clean energy accounted for 22.1 per cent in the total energy consumption mix, 7.6 percentage points higher than that of 2012.
September 26, 2019France's President Emmanuel Macron said the wildfires were "an international crisis" and called on the globe's most industrialized nations to address it at their summit this weekend.
August 23, 2019PM Modi is likely to address Indian-Americans in Houston during his trip to the US, community leaders said.
July 13, 2019India has been wary of the Council's mission creep as it tries to extend its reach beyond what is allocated in the UN Charter by redefining other issues, even as it struggles to fulfil its primary functions.
January 26, 2019Antonio Guterres said the Katowice climate change conference has shown once more the resilience of the Paris Agreement and from now his priorities will be ambition.
December 16, 2018In all likelihood, we would be somewhere in between and would be required to act on both, says Dr Leena Srivastava ahead of the Katowice Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Poland in December
December 8, 2018Earth's surface has warmed one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) -- enough to lift oceans and unleash a crescendo of deadly storms, floods and droughts.
October 8, 2018The impact of climate change is on the rise and no part of the world is immune. South Asia, home to one of the world’s poorest and hungriest populations, emerges as especially vulnerable. A new study by the World Bank projects a steep decline in living standards in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka because …
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