Tag: Paris Agreement
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China to firmly implement Paris Agreement
As 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, 2019 -
Deeply concerned by fires, Amazon must be protected: UN Chief
France'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, 2019 -
PM Modi to visit US in September, attend UNGA meet on climate change: Reports
PM Modi is likely to address Indian-Americans in Houston during his trip to the US, community leaders said.
July 13, 2019 -
India questions rush to declare climate change as international security issue
India 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, 2019 -
From now, my priorities will be ambition: UN chief
Antonio 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, 2018 -
Air pollution must be tackled: Dr Leena Srivastava
In 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, 2018 -
Paradigm shift needed to avert global climate chaos, warns UN
Earth'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, 2018 -
Climate risks threaten 800m South Asians
The 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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September 24, 2018 -
Climate-change fizzle
The Bangkok meeting on climate change has floundered on the rock of discord over the formulations and funding, adopted at the Paris conference of December 2015. The international meeting, which concluded in the Thai capital on Sunday, has fallen short of its aim ~ to complete preparations towards an agreement this December for implementing the …
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September 11, 2018 -
800 million South Asians at risk
The impact of climate change is on the rise and no part of the world is immune. South Asia, home to some of the world’s poorest and hungriest peoples, 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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July 15, 2018 -
Is India ready for renewable energy?
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (“MNRE”) has been taking several steps to ensure a clean energy future for the country. As part of its year-end review, the Ministry declared its plans of coming up with the largest renewable capacity expansion programme in the world. As a part of India’s pledges to the Paris …
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May 3, 2018 -
Earth Day: Let’s pledge to keep our environment clean, says Mamata
Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on 22 April. Around the world, various events are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
April 22, 2018 -
India’s place on Asia’s curious chessboard
In the Indian sub-continent where the two forthcoming regional players are locking horns over several issues, a curious chess board of bilateral relationships is unfolding. India has cautiously played out its strategic stance over the recently retracted emergency situation in Maldives, while China went out upfront. In a similar deadlock, China has reportedly been engaged …
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April 13, 2018 -
China surges ahead as US retreats on climate change
In 2017, US president Donald Trump announced his decision to back out of the Paris Agreement. On the other side of the world, Chinese officials dedicated several provisions of their 13th Five-Year-Plan (FYP) to tackle climate change. China and the US advocate two diverging environmental policies while their goal is inherently the same – economic …
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March 21, 2018 -
US could “go back in” Paris Agreement: Trump
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Washington could “conceivably” re-enter into the global Paris climate agreement, from which he announced the withdrawal last year. At a news conference, Trump insisted that Paris Agreement, which the international community signed in 2015 with the aim of combating climate change by limiting global temperature rise to …
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January 11, 2018 -
Concert of Bonn
It is gratifying to reflect that the climate-change conference in Bonn has registered a critical forward movement with the 19-nation Powering Past Coal Alliance emitting the signal to phase out coal ~ trashed as the “dirtiest fuel” that provides 40 per cent of global electricity. The concert of powers that has pledged to ensure a …
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November 19, 2017 -
India will work above, beyond Paris Agreement: Sushma
India will work above and beyond the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said while stressing that living in harmony with nature is central to the ethos of India. At a meeting of select leaders convened by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres here on Tuesday on the sidelines of the …
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September 20, 2017