In the run-up to two key UN summits on Climate Change, India has raised the pitch for finance and technology support to developing nations to achieve the Paris Agreement goals of keeping a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius. Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said […]
India’s Investment in Renewable Resources Not Enough
India needs to make an annual investment of more than Rs 1.77 lakh crore ($25 billion) every year for 10 years to reach its target. India’s national climate action plans, known in UN parlance as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), under the Paris Agreement set three major goals – to increase the share of non-fossil fuels […]
UN chief calls on world leader to attend 2019 Climate Summit
New Delhi: The UN SecretaryGeneral António Guterres has called on the world leaders to visit New York on 23 September this year with concrete, realistic plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020, in line with reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent over the next decade, and to net zero emissions by […]
INTERVIEW-New UN environment chief seeks fair deal for all in climate fight
NEW YORK: The United Nations’ new environment chief, Inger Andersen, will push for fossil fuel workers to get a chance at joining the growing green energy sector, she said in an interview. The Danish economist, who began as executive director of UN Environment earlier this month, emphasized the need to care for those left unemployed […]
UN chief Guterres says world ‘not on track’ with climate change
In a strong message for action on climate change, Guterres said international political resolve was fading and it was the small island nations that were “really in the front line” and would suffer most Wellington: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres launched a brief South Pacific tour in New Zealand Sunday, warning the world was “not on track” to limiting […]
Green jobs: To reduce carbon footprints and achieve targets of Paris climate accord
The whole new concept of ‘green jobs’ aims to reduce carbon footprints in the ecosystem and minimize human extracting traditional fuels from nature. As the world faces rising effects of climate change which have endangered the survival of the human race on earth, there is a need to produce more ‘green jobs’ which can deteriorate […]