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Andhra Pradesh focuses on climate change governance, sets up special cell
The Andhra government has created an exclusive climate change cell in its environment, forests, science and technology department to implement a state action plan
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India among top 5 countries in global climate change performance index
India is ranked among the top five countries, and the best among the G-20 nations, under the global Climate Change Performance Index, an official statement said.
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India moves two spots up to rank 8th in climate change performance index
India has also been ranked amongst top 5 countries in the world and the best among the G20 countries, based on its Climate Change performance
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COP27 loss and damage fund: Is India a net loser?
The recently-concluded Cop 27 relegated realistic climate goals to back seat, and put several developing countries in a tight spot. Will India gain from the newly-established 'Loss and Damage' fund?
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EVs lead climate tech funding but more needed for niche solutions: Experts
Climate tech start-ups traditionally require longer gestation periods due to which the sector has not generated strong commercial returns recently
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COP27 fails to turn off the oil tap as global production hits all-time high
The latest global climate summit has failed to even mention the reduction of fossil fuel usage, a key demand from India, in the final agreement text at Egypt
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Huge impact of CAs on businesses can save the world: Julia Penny of ICAEW
In a Q&A, the head of the apex body of chartered accountants in the UK discusses the challenge of sustainability and other issues her tribe faces across the globe
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Best of BS Opinion: Protecting data privacy, the FTX fraud, and more
Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today
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COP27 agrees to adopt loss and damage fund but finer details missing
India's call to end all fossil fuels not acknowledged in final draft
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Good and bad news
COP27 does not push forward India's agenda significantly
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Historic compensation fund for poor nations approved at UN climate talks
It is a big win for poorer nations which have long called for cash sometimes viewed as reparations
Climate talks poised for disaster fund deal to compensate poor nations
New Zealand Climate Minister James Shaw said both the poor countries that would get the money and the rich ones that would give it are on board with the proposed deal
UN climate summit: Parties scramble for consensus on key issues in overtime
COP27 president Sameh Shoukry said deliberations continued through the night, but did not result in a clear direction towards a consensus
COP27: Despair, lack of progress at climate talks, yet hope blooms
Hope is the only meaning (sic) that makes us ALIVE! Mohamed Ageez, an Egyptian youth activist wrote
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COP27 climate deal hurtle towards overtime, countries mull EU offer of fund
27-country EU said it would back one of the toughest agenda items financing for countries wracked by climate-fuelled disasters
Draft COP27 climate deal shows inaction on loss and damage funding
The "draft text on COP 27's overarching decision" reaffirmed that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius requires rapid and deep emission cuts
FM Nirmala Sitharaman to kick-start pre-Budget meetings from Monday
On November 22, Sitharaman would meet agriculture and agro processing industry, representatives from financial sector and capital markets
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UN Secy, COP27 Prez urge nations to deliver through much-needed pacts
To this end, the COP27 Presidency, with the support of UN-Habitat, convened the first-ever Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change at a UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP)
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COP27: To decarbonise by 2050, India needs investments of at least $7 trn
And India's progress towards net zero by 2070 will depend on how successful it is in facilitating an orderly transition to a clean economy
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COP27: India opposes efforts to extend scope of mitigation to agriculture
India made it clear that the world is facing a climate crisis today because of the excessive historic cumulative emissions by the developed nations.