Page 20 - Climate Change Talks

US President-elect Joe Biden names key members of his climate team

Biden has announced his climate and energy team, which he said is ready on day one to advance his agenda and lead the world to confront the undeniable reality of climate change

Indian entrepreneur among 7 winners of UNEP prize for global change-makers

A 29-year-old Indian entrepreneur is among the seven winners of the prestigious "Young Champions of the Earth" 2020 prize given by the UN environment agency to global change-makers

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BlackRock to double number of firms it engages with over climate in 2021

BlackRock said it would more than double the number of companies it engages with over climate-related issues to over 1,000 and laid out stronger goals on other fronts for portfolio firms

Decolonising climate action

If inequality of consumption is recognised as the major obstacle to tackling the climate crisis, then the conversation would be different

Biden, UN chief discuss strengthening partnership on Covid, climate change

US President-elect Joe Biden spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as the two discussed the need to strengthen their partnership on urgent global issues including combatting Covid-19

Three steps to a Biden climate initiative

With more sensible US leadership and new policy tools, the world will have a fighting chance of survival

European Union countries consider a climate target for every decade

The EU is aiming to strike a deal this year on a law to make its climate targets legally binding, and member states will start discussions next week on the text

Two ends to Climate Change debate; Experts vary on impact on rain, cyclones

The topic has always been contentious, with radical movements like Extinction Rebellion at one end, and leaders like Donald Trump and Brazil's Bolsonaro, who say climate change theory is a hoax at the

New economic assumptions

Covid must cause a re-examination of aspects of economics

Fighting climate crisis on Davos' agenda, but people arriving by pvt jets

While more organizers are recognizing the need to mitigate the damage their events can cause to the environment, the industry hasn't settled on an approach for tackling air travel

My generation will not give up without a fight: Activist Greta Thunberg

We demand that at this year's WEF participants from all companies, banks, institutions and governments: halt subsidies, investments to fossil fuels

Best of BS Opinion: Simplifying tax on capital, Trump economy, and more

From why life expectancy in the US has been declining to how an undefined constitutional clause has grown too big for the times, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

The truth about the Trump economy

It is becoming conventional wisdom that Trump has been good for the economy. Nothing could be further from the truth

Nothing has been done to save the planet: Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg

"People are more generally aware now. The climate and the environment is a hot topic. But - and it's a big but: From another perspective, pretty much nothing has been done," she said

So close, and yet so far: Why COP25 climate talks in Madrid failed

Five years after the fragile UN process yielded the world's first universal climate treaty, COP25 was billed as a mopping-up session to finish guidelines for carbon markets

UN chief 'disappointed' as longest talks end with no deal on carbon market

The two-week long negotiations which extended till Sunday saw no agreement on major issues such as Article 6, loss and damage, and long term finance

How a little verb can give a climate treaty teeth or make it toothless

"We are in a fantasy land here," said Alden Meyer, strategy and policy director for the Union of Concerned Scientists

COP25: Negotiators burn midnight oil to keep UN climate talks alive

This summit has revealed a wide gulf between demands for action by an increasingly vociferous global climate activism movement and inertia in major economies

India among top 10 nations on climate change performance: Report

This assumes significance in view of India's resolve to reach 175 GW of clean energy capacity by 2022