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VP urges joint global action on climate change, environmental destruction

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar praised makers of Indian Constitution for including protection of forests in directive principles of state policy

Air in North India turns 'poor' again as rains play truant, winds go slow

Plunge in AQI attributed to 'winter inversion', where cooler air is trapped under a warmer layer, creating an atmospheric blanket that traps pollutants closer to the Earth's surface

COP15 adopts biodiversity reversal plan to save 30% of land, water by 2030

Montreal deal also aims to provide critical financing to developing world; draft calls for raising $200 billion by 2030 for biodiversity, with a plan that could provide another $500 billion

No plan to ban firecrackers: Environment minister Choubey tells Lok Sabha

Says SC had only come down on conventional fireworks, but had allowed green crackers that release fewer emissions

COP15 Montreal: India urges dedicated fund for biodiversity conservation

Says developing countries bear most of the burden of implementing targets; call comes as 196 parties to Convention on Biological Diversity finalise talks for a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

270 urban forest projects approved since 2020: Govt tells Parliament

Nagar Van Yojana, launched in 2020, aims to enhance green cover, biodiversity in cities

Delhi's November AQI: With 3 days in 'severe' grade, 2022 better than 2021

Delhi-NCR has not recorded a single 'good' air quality day in the first two weeks of Nov in 5 years

Submitted long-term low emissions growth strategy: India at COP27

Reiterates its climate goals in its National Statement

COP27: Biofuels and green H2 to power India's low-carbon growth

Minister outlines plan for carbon reduction

Air quality panel revokes Stage III of GRAP as Delhi pollution eases

On Monday Punjab reported only four incidents of residue burning as against 2,175 reported on Sunday

COP 27: Confidence of investors key to meet climate goals, says India

Leena Nandan strongly emphasised the need for information dissemination to strengthen communities for adaptation readiness

CDRI announces Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund at COP27

Around $50 mn in financial commitments have already been announced for IRAF

COP27: CDRI to propose climate-change adaptation projects on Nov 17

Environment minister Bhupender Yadav says country 'making swift progress' in building such systems

Mangroves as carbon sink: India joins five-nation alliance at COP27

India is among the first five countries to join the MAC, at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt

At COP27, India supports early warning systems on climate impacts

Environment minister Bhupender Yadav says country 'making swift progress' in building such systems

Farmers lukewarm to bio-decomposers as stubble burning incidents rise

Industry players and farmers said there were other reasons for the slower-than-targeted adoption

Environment minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurates India Pavilion at COP27

The minister also felicitated the COP Young Scholars from India who worked towards Positive Climate Change solutions

Delhi govt orders WFH for half its staff, primary schools to be shut

As capital chokes with air pollution, AAP takes responsibility for excessive stubble burning in the last few days

SC orders status quo on sowing of GM mustard; next hearing on Nov 10

The plea stated that the modified seeds can contaminate non-GM mustard crops and that the sowing of such seeds should be put on hold

Finance, tech transfer, capacity building on India's agenda for COP27

India will also seek clarity on loan availability, credit mechanisms and insurance requirements for adaptation finance