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COP27 what to watch: Climate progress hinges on crucial week two
Here's how week one went down and what to expect from the rest of this year's UN climate summit
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Closing the green gap: 17% of businesses have calculated carbon output
Indian businesses today recognise the potential of sustainability to unlock business value, a recent study says
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Climate Change@ 2050: Why Mumbai may get that 'sinking feeling'
Among other things, the IPCC has pointed fingers at the upcoming Coastal Road Project, rising sea-levels and flood damage.
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Mexico raises target for cutting carbon emissions, boosting renewables
Ebrard announced the new target alongside US climate envoy John Kerry on the sidelines of the UN climate talks in Egypt
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COP27: Hundreds of activists protest for climate action at UN summit
Hundreds of activists called on industrialised nations to pay for impact of climate change and to speed up transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in the largest protest yet at COP27
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COP27: Joe Biden says climate change efforts 'more urgent than ever'
This gathering must be the moment to recommit our future and our shared capacity to write a better story for the world," Biden said
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COP27: UN climate change talks near halftime with key issues unresolved
Here is a look at the main issues on the table at the COP27 talks and how they might be reflected in a final agreement
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COP27: Call for urgent action to reduce emissions across industry
'Climate crisis is existential, overriding and ever present and we need to look at every piece of the puzzle, including the decarbonization of the industrial sectors that underpin the global economy'
Best of BS Opinion: Climate concerns, Patidars and patronage & more
Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day
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Area under moderately dense mangroves fell in 10 years, shows data
Overall mangrove cover increased between 2011 and 2021
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Sitharaman, Yellen urge bilateral cooperation amid geopolitical uncertainty
Visiting US official speaks about 'shared goals' on climate change, debt burden of developing countries
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Beyond bloviation: What do climate conferences like COP achieve anyway?
It would be wrong to think that nothing has been achieved. A great deal has, though far too slowly - for which lack of speed the world, especially its poor, will pay the price, writes T N Ninan
COP27: Joe Biden says climate crisis is about 'very life of the planet'
"It's more urgent than ever that we double down on our climate commitments. Russia's war only enhances the urgency of the need to transition the world off its dependence on fossil fuels," he said
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Technology cannot remain confined to only big players: India at COP27
Nandan said that science is there but how to apply this science and knowledge to our activities needs to be processed
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COP27: Joe Biden off to climate talks, first leg of around-the-world trip
He also will spotlight one of his key domestic successes the Democrats' massive health care and climate change bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act
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COP27: African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change
COP27 must keep adaptation at the center, said Madeleine Sarr, the chair of the LDC group, adding that the group "want to see how the shortfall in the USD 100 billion per year promise will be made up
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Climate change: Carbon dioxide emissions rising globally, but drop in China
In 2022, the world is on track to put 36.6 billion metric tons (40.3 billion U.S. tons) of carbon dioxide in the air from energy and cement use, the study calculated
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'Debt distress, climate action to be challenges for India as G20 President'
"All major bilateral creditors, including China, must cooperate constructively to deliver on their G20 commitment to provide meaningful debt relief, " US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.
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'US looking forward to support India's G20 presidency': Janet Yellen
The 2022 G20 Summit will take place under the presidency of Indonesia in Bali between November 15 and 16
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Scientists say global warming beyond 1.5 degrees threshold likely
While exceeding the 1.5-degree limit appears inevitable, the researchers chart several potential courses in which the overshoot period is shortened, in some cases by decades
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