Climate Change

Union minister for environment, forest and climate change Bhupender Yadav said that everyone in India must have the means to live with dignity and that access to affordable energy is critical in achieving it. “Young people should work to…
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At least 123 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile, leading its president to declare two days of national mourning. The devastation comes soon after Colombia declared a disaster over wildfires. Scientists say climate…
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Delayed snowfall in Northern India, sweltering heatwave in Australia, raging wildfires in Chile, and soaring sea surface temperatures. These are only a handful of consequences of global warming that the world is currently witnessing.…
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A Nigerian solar plant and an Azerbaijan wind farm were among the 55 projects that received financing worth $1.7 billion from the OPEC Fund for International Development in 2023. Aligned with the multilateral development finance…
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Barely a month and a half after COP28, Simon Stiell, executive secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change called on countries to deliver trillions in climate finance. Stiell who delivered a lecture at ADA University…
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The UN’s climate chief has urged countries to intensify action to close the financing gap to tackle global warming at this year’s COP29 summit in Baku, where the hosts of the annual talks are under growing scrutiny. Many western countries…
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Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was acquitted of breaking public protest laws at a London trial after she was arrested while blockading an oil and gas conference last year. A London judge ruled Friday that the 21-year-old Swedish…
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In the semi-arid region of Gujarat, the historic site of Vadnagar has unveiled a resilient agricultural economy that thrived despite the fluctuation of monsoon rains over centuries. A new study focusing on this area has provided insights…
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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the continent’s chief health advisory body, has tied the worst outbreak of cholera in three years to climate change, saying adverse weather is raising the risk of this disease faster…
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2023 was unlike any other year, at least in living memory and since weather records began to be maintained nearly two centuries back. The past year turned out to be the hottest ever, with varying scientific estimates of annual temperature…
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