India and Germany on Friday agreed to provide financial support to climate initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with the latter expressing its readiness to provide one billion euros to India for green urban mobility. The two countries signed a joint declaration on the matter after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met German Chancellor Angela […]
ISA shows nations care about climate change, take concrete steps: French Minister Brune Poirson
New Delhi : In a veiled attack on the US, French Minister of State for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition Brune Poirson on Thursday said the International Solar Alliance (ISA) is a political project which shows that there are countries who care for climate issues and do concrete things on the ground. Speaking at a […]
Recognising efforts to tackle climate change
Slashing your company’s carbon footprint is good for the environment – and your business Carbon emissions contribute to climate change, which in turn leads to hotter weather and rising sea levels, threatening low-lying countries like Singapore. Corporations are often the biggest culprits of carbon emissions. Industries that produce the highest carbon footprint include petrochemicals, construction […]
Saving water has become easier with the use of renewable energy sources
Washington: A research has found that the transition from coal to natural gas in the US electricity sector is reducing the industry’s water use. It is helping in saving water and contributing to reducing water scarcity. For every megawatt of electricity produced using natural gas instead of coal, the water withdrawn from rivers and groundwater […]
Morgan Stanley Says These Firms Will Profit From Climate Change
The world needs to spend $50 trillion on five areas of technology by 2050 to slash emissions and meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of curbing global warming, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a report. To reduce net emissions of carbon to zero, the world would have to eradicate the equivalent of 53.5 billion metric tons […]
Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?
It depends, experts say. Just expect to make a few sacrifices. Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean-energy customers in California’s Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Last year, he chose to […]
African Development Bank, Climate Investment Funds and the Coalition for Green Capital to develop Green financing instruments for Africa
The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), has commissioned the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) to prepare a study on the creation of national climate change funds and green banks in Africa. CGC will identify and work with six African countries to conduct feasibility studies for the project, which was initiated […]
Commonwealth targets climate change with replicable regeneration projects
The 53-country bloc held a two-day brainstorming of indigenous groups, environmentalists, scientists and climate change experts at its headquarters in London The Commonwealth on Friday launched an ideas-sharing network to tackle the effects of climate change through replicable regeneration projects. The 53-country bloc held a two-day brainstorming of indigenous groups, environmentalists, scientists and climate change […]
Americans really want the US to adopt renewable energy like wind and solar power, while rejecting fossil fuels like coal
A new Insider poll found that a large majority of Americans strongly favor cleaner sources of energy over fossil fuels – and it’s a belief that transcends party lines. The data shows that both self-identified Democrats and Republicans support the idea of the nation transitioning towards renewable sources of energy. Solar and wind power were […]
Week-Long IPCC Meet on Climate Change begins in New Delhi
India is hosting the Second Lead Author Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III Sixth Assessment Report at New Delhi, beginning 30th September to 4th October 2019. Speaking at a press briefing today, Secretary, Ministry of Environment Forest &Climate Change (MoEFCC), Shri C.K. Mishra dwelt upon the challenges and viable solutions to […]