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India shaping growth path with climate-responsible approach: UNDP chief
India continues to shape development pathways that are both economically sound and climate-responsible, he said
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Climate finance failure by developed nations hurts NDCs: India at COP30
Countries are required to submit their third round of NDCs, referred to as "NDCs 3.0", for the 2031-2035 period this year
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Can digital twinning find transformative solutions for our problems?
Most physical processes are very complex, however, and this sort of modelling can require billions of calculation
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Bill Gates' pivot away from bold climate action misses key challenges
To find our way back to shore, we urgently need a new financial architecture that can provide the policy and fiscal space to support implementation and build state capacity
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Big Tech's Climate Strategists Feeling Strain of AI Power Needs
One of Trump's biggest moves against renewables was to use massive tax bill he signed in July to strip away clean energy incentives created through his predecessor Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act
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India unfolds priorities in Belem but yet to show its climate cards
2025 was among the 3 hottest years on record, accompanied by a record-breaking glacier loss, lowest Arctic sea ice on record and record increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from 2023-24
Climate finance is within reach as COP30 eyes stronger commitment
Recent studies have estimated climate finance requirements of EMDEs at $1-4 trillion per year up to 2030, which is seen as daunting, leading to even less action than might have been possible
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What is the COP30 climate summit, and why does it matter this year?
World leaders are meeting in Brazil's Amazon city of Belem for COP30, the 30th UN climate summit, to discuss how to curb global warming and act on past promises to cut fossil fuel use
COP30 starts with call for faster action, more togetherness, but without US
COP30 president Andre Correa do Lago urged negotiators to embrace mutirao, a Brazilian term meaning collective effort, to work together toward tackling climate change
 "COP30 starts with call for faster action, more togetherness, but without US")
The Baku to Belem road map has a crucial hurdle: The missing leaders
The reluctance of developed nations like the UK to foot the climate bill and the US withdrawal among key challenges to mobilise $1.3 trillion by 2035
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The obstacle course at Belem: COP30 agenda faces multiple headwinds
This much was evident when it became clear that only a third of countries, ahead of the summit, submitted updates detailing how they would cut the emission of greenhouse gases
Best of BS Opinion: India must reform QCO regime to meet global standards
Today's Best of BS Opinion analyses India's Quality Control Order overreach, dim prospects for COP30, Ajay Shah on Trump's tariff shock, and Jordan Ellenberg's review of The Great Math War
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The world faces action and inaction against climate: What will win?
For the first time, renewable energy has overtaken coal as the primary source of electricity in the first six months of 2025
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Datanomics: As COP30 nears, why India is set to miss 2030 emission target
As COP30 begins in Brazil, new data shows India's emissions rising faster than its 2030 targets - though still far below major economies on a per capita basis
 "Datanomics: As COP30 nears, why India is set to miss 2030 emission target")
Countries at COP30 endorse new fund to pay nations for preserving forests
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) is designed to reward countries for keeping their forests standing rather than waiting for them to be cut down or degraded
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Nations look to India's energy transition experience for lessons: Ghosh
Arunabha Ghosh, founder & CEO of Delhi-based think tank CEEW, speaks about his role as an envoy for South Asian nations at the Conference of Parties
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30 years of climate talks: Progress, pitfalls and a planet in peril
Global greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 34% since 1995
As world leaders enter climate talks, people in poverty have most at stake
Any help from the climate talks depends on countries not just laying out pledges and plans to lower emissions. They also need to find the political will to implement them
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Kshema General Insurance to receive $20 million capital infusion from GCF
The capital received will be utilised to expand Kshema's offerings to reach a wider number of uninsured farmers and their crops, strengthening its underwriting capacity.
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Heat could kill 46 people per hour in South Asia by 2045, study finds
A study in the journal Tropical Medicine and Health projects that climate change could double South Asia's annual heat-related deaths to nearly 400,000 by 2045, with India and Pakistan most at risk
 "Heat could kill 46 people per hour in South Asia by 2045, study finds")