Climate Change

Rekha Devi, a 30-year-old farm worker, is dreading the moment when her family will be ordered to leave their makeshift tent atop a half-built overpass and return to the Yamuna River floodplains below, where their hut and small field of…
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Former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair said on Saturday that with the successful launch of India’s first solar mission, Aditya-L1, the nation could create some forecasting models and create a resilient plan to fight climate change. Nair…
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The COP28 Presidency has called for urgent action to strengthen global adaptation action across all levels to mitigate vulnerability and enhance resilience for communities, ecosystems, and economic sectors. This appeal came during the…
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It is an honour to serve as Vice Chairperson of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) alongside so many distinguished colleagues. I am pleased to be in Beijing for this Annual General…
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Young people around the world are increasingly taking their governments to court for failing to reduce climate pollution, and on rare occasions, they are winning. This week, their efforts received an endorsement from an independent panel…
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"We need to run a marathon but at the speed of a 100-meter race," said Stefanos Fotiou, the United Nations' food systems coordination hub director, about the work needing to be done for food system transformation. But at the UN’s Food…
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Climate change poses a wide range of dangers and risks that can have profound and far-reaching impacts on various aspects of our world. This complex and pressing issue poses numerous threats to the environment and human life. A new study…
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Environmental leaders from 185 countries gathered in Vancouver, Canada, on Thursday to launch a fund to support global conservation, and the United Nations called for contributions to help meet goals including protection of 30 percent of…
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Australia and China pledged more support for the Pacific Islands in their fight against climate change, as the leaders of four nations debate declaring the strategic region “neutral” as China and the United States jostle for influence.…
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Planners drafting the Town and Country Planning Act, of 1971, would have hardly thought about climate change and disaster risks five decades ago. Now these will be part of the new amendments to the Act, which is likely to be introduced…
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