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Modi to brief UN summit on India's renewable energy, climate action plans
Modi is among the first set of speakers at the Summit's opening ceremony, a highly significant gesture
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The most crucial climate talk since Paris 2015 deal begins in Katowice
Over the next two weeks, the aim is to make an end-of-year deadline for agreeing a rule book on how to enforce global action to limit further warming of the planet
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Katowice climate talks: US, EU refuse disclosure on climate finance
The developed countries instead demanded that developing countries provide information on how they would also contribute to climate finance
Explained: Why India should not enhance its climate targets at UNSG Summit
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend Climate Action Summit on September 23 at New York
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Letter to BS: Afforestation is not an immediate measure to reduce emission
Official commitments before international forums have to be made with caution as the European Union and the United States have a hidden economic and political agenda
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Climate talks hit wall on developed countries' $100 bn financial pledge
Delegates from 178 nations spent the week narrowing down options for a rule book for the Paris accord
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World leaders come up short at UN summit as millions demand climate action
Under the Paris Agreement, countries are expected to submit new, and ideally more ambitious, climate action plans every five years. The next presentations are due in 2020
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India stares at more floods, storms, erratic rains, UN climate report warns
If emissions continue at the current rate, then the earth is headed for a 3 deg Celsius temperature rise
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Hindu Kush at risk of losing over 60% glaciers by 2100: Green group
Among the 46 cities at risk due to sea level rise, two are Indian cities of Mumbai and Kolkata, which may experience severe and frequent floods
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Measuring change through the young
Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old Swedish school girl who is rocking the world with her protest against inaction on climate change
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No Planet B, say teen activists as 1.8 mn join global climate change strike
Thunberg, 16, said the threat of societal breakdown posed by runaway climate change should overshadow every other campaign issue in the European Union's parliamentary elections
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The greatness of Greta
"I don't want you to listen to me, I want you to listen to the scientists," Thunberg told the US Congress this week, submitting what she called her
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From Delhi to Tokyo, students take to streets for climate change protests
It was expected to be the biggest protest ever against the threat posed to the planet by climate change
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UN climate panel okays report detailing impact of global warming on oceans
At issue is what might have been a routine reference to the October 2018 IPCC report on the feasibility of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius
Climate change is real: How it is becoming a nightmare for central banks
Climate change was a warning shot that took time to echo in policy-making corridors
Five-year period ending 2019 set to be hottest on record, says UN report
Other major takeaways from the report include that the extent of Arctic summer sea ice has declined at a rate of 12 per cent per decade over the past 40 years
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Kids who are adults for a cause
To me, the climate change problem will be addressed with much greater resolve as this younger generation participates in politics
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'Have to do it': Jeff Bezos sets deadline for Amazon to be carbon neutral
Amazon will buy 100,000 electric vans from a start-up and invest $100 million to restore forests and wetlands.
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World 'losing the race' to avert climate disaster, warns UN chief Guterres
Guterres said he was heartened by growing societal awareness, which meant that hope was not yet lost
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Let's manage risks, not disasters
Today, across the country, there are flood-and-drought-affected pockets next to one another. This is the new normal, and it will do us good to acknowledge and adjust to it quickly
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