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April heatwaves were '30 times more likely' due of climate change: Experts
Human-caused climate change made April's record-breaking humid heatwave in India, Bangladesh, Laos, and Thailand at least 30 times more likely
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UN forecasts 2 in 3 chance of briefly hitting key heat limit soon
There's a two-out-of-three chance within next 5 years that world will temporarily reach internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change
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Countries need to integrate climate change in regional, global plans
Women and children are vulnerable to the effects of climate change in terms of their health and wellbeing, a top WHO official said
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Billion new ACs will save lives from soaring temps but will cook the planet
But expanding AC coverage too quickly also threatens to worsen the crisis it's responding to. Most units use a refrigerant that's far more damaging than carbon dioxide
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Big money rushes into carbon capture and storage. Can it deliver this time?
But after decades of failing to reach the scale needed to make a real difference, the people responsible for approving generous subsidies and directing billions in investment want proof
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European Union adopts law banning products which fuel deforestation
Forests are an important natural means of removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, since plants absorb carbon dioxide when they grow
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Rich countries not doing enough to control climate change: Pacific island
Prime Minister Mark Brown of the Cook Islands encouraged a shift toward grants or interest-free loans to help ease the financial burden on poorer countries
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Energy transition in EU for 2030 climate target is irreversible: Report
The findings show that European laws will set in stone major transformations of the European economy by 2030: Wind and solar power will be the main sources of electricity, accounting for 55%
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Govt launches 'Meri LiFE' app to encourage young to battle climate change
The Union environment ministry serves as the coordinating authority for implementing Mission LiFE at the national level
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RBI, green finance and the blue planet: How are banks placed in all this?
The central bank's report seeks to nudge banks and financial institutions to catalyse risk mitigation from climate change
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Volkswagen's annual meeting hit by protests over climate strategy, China
While weathering criticism over its China presence, VW is dealing with the pressing task of stemming a slide in market share in its biggest market
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New AI model by IBM-NASA designed to help track Earth's climate change
"The model could speed up geospatial analysis by three to four times, and can help reduce the amount of data cleaning and labelling required in training a traditional deep-learning model"
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Study provides more evidence of climate change being human-caused: PNAS
A new research has provided evidence of climate change being human-caused and showed that specific signals from human activities have altered the temperature structure of Earth's atmosphere
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Global climate diplomacy: World is focusing on wrong climate scoreboard
Under the Paris Agreement, every country committed to making changes that will help keep global average temperature rise well below 2C and ideally below 1.5C
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Three Adani Group firms lose endorsement of UN-backed climate group
Adani Green, Adani Transmission Ltd. and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. were removed in late April
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AI's threat to world may be 'more urgent' than climate change: Pioneer
He added: "With climate change, it's very easy to recommend what you should do. If you do that, eventually things will be okay. For this it's not at all clear what you should do"
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82% of Indians either alarmed or concerned about global warming, says study
About 82 per cent of Indians are either alarmed or concerned about global warming and are in support of bringing in energy policies to reduce its effects, reveals a new study
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A torrid summer, rise in power demand risks stalling Asia's climate goals
It's the expectation of a torrid summer that has sent coal stockpiles in Asia's biggest economies soaring in recent months - and sooner or later, all that carbon is going to end up getting burned
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Fossils or not? Nations split on how to meet global climate goals
Senior officials from dozens of nations meeting in Berlin remained divided Wednesday on how to meet international climate goals
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India must reduce energy intensity to reach net zero 2070 target: RBI
India's goal of achieving the net zero target by 2070 would require an accelerated reduction in the energy intensity of GDP by around 5 per cent annually
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