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A formal draft of the UN climate summit deal that came out on Friday makes no mention of India's call for phase down of all fossil fuels. The draft showed little progress on key issues like loss and damage funding, adaptation fund…
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1- I’ve just had the pleasure of welcoming His Excellency Secretary General Guterres once again here in Sharm el-Sheikh for the last crucial stretch of COP27. 2- The Secretary General’s presence here in the last few hours as Parties strive…
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India on Thursday communicated strong objections to discussions under a special UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) effort known as the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, which has sought to expand efforts to reduce…
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A delegation led by Sh Vineet Garg, Additional Chief Secretary is presently in Sharm El Shiekh, Egypt for participation in CoP (Conference of Parties)-27 of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). Delegation members…
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H.E. Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and COP27 President-Designate underlined that Egypt is “ready” to host the world leaders, delegates and climate stakeholders under the banner of “Together for Implementation,”…
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Regional authorities in Egypt, the host country of the 2022 UN climate conference (COP27), are ramping up initiatives designed to improve the country’s environmental credentials, and speed up its transition to a low carbon economy. The…
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The most ominous sign of what the forthcoming COP-27 meeting on climate change portends for small states is that officials from a Group of 20 (G20) major economies, who met on August 31, failed to agree on a joint statement at the…
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India is in the process of submitting its nationally determined contribution (NDC), senior officials of the union environment ministry said on Wednesday, with the process being completed well before a September 23 deadline of the United…
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Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, met with representatives from the Caribbean this week as the region prepares for the COP 27 climate conference in Egypt. Mr Roban travelled to Nassau in the Bahamas to take part in the First…
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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved India's updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Climate Agreement. According to the updated NDC, India now stands committed to reducing the emissions intensity of its GDP by…
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