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Pressure mounts for global roadmap to phase out fossil fuels

November 20, 2025 5:35 am

India’s Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav held a bilateral meeting with China’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, Liu Zhenmin, on Wednesday to coordinate their strategy on these issues.

Global Carbon Project underlines need for investments in clean energy, building people's resilience

November 15, 2025 7:27 am

It also has a sobering message -- the decarbonisation drive is not strong enough to mitigate the dangerous impacts of global warming

Belem Action Plan for Health and Climate Adaptation launched: $300 mn committed for health impacts of climate at COP30

November 15, 2025 3:36 am

Adaptation finance crucial to strengthen health in the face of life-threatening climate conditions

COP30: Framework, toolkit to rope in governance, tackle extreme heat released

November 14, 2025 3:16 am

Extreme heat claims more than half a million lives every year. In 2024, a record 639 billion potential work hours were lost due to heat and it resulted in an estimated economic burden worth USD 1 trillion or equal to one per cent of the global GDP, the WMO said.

COP 30 must address the most vulnerable

November 08, 2025 7:28 am

One of the priorities at COP 30 will be to create a roadmap to track global adaptation progress. Unlike mitigation, adaptation has no single global metric. The roadmap will also need to be sensitive to the fact that social inequalities make some people more vulnerable than others.

Mumbai needs long-term planning to deal with climate change: experts

August 21, 2024 10:45 pm

According to Bart De Jong, consul general of Netherlands, 26 per cent of the Netherlands lies below the sea level including major cities like The Hague and its capital Amsterdam, making 60 per cent of the country's land flood-prone.

June warmest on record; every month since July 2023 breached 1.5 deg C threshold

July 08, 2024 8:37 am

June was the 12th consecutive month with monthly average temperatures above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.

For 2-week COP29, host Azerbaijan seeks a pause in conflicts

June 07, 2024 1:33 pm

The Russia-Ukraine war, which has been going on for the last two years, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict since the October 7 attack by Hamas, are happening within the extended neighbourhood of the central Asian republic of Azerbaijan.

Breaking the ice: How India can help save the Arctic

October 27, 2023 1:41 pm

As India takes greater steps towards leading the Global South, its future should involve pushing for reforms and ensuring that climate protection is at the forefront of global Arctic policymaking

At first meeting, Modi council okays 4 new climate initiatives

January 20, 2015 2:11 am

These would be in addition to the eight existing climate ‘missions’ that have been already running.

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