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RIL's giga-sized green game plan bets heavily on inorganic growth

By swiftly tying up deals on the basics - manufacture, storage, construction - the petroleum giant has taken the first significant step toward meeting its clean energy goals

Global climate action: Indian banks need to accelerate green financing

Indian banks need to move away from financing fossil fuels projects and prioritise lending to renewable energy and other environmentally sustainable projects

Right to clean environment breakthrough moment: UN agency head

This right has been rooted in the 1972 Stockholm Declaration

Climate truth-tellers

For long, climate change deniers rejected these models as unverifiable and results of questionable inputs

Coal's problems are governance, not climate regulation

In a few short weeks, the world's leaders will gather for the United Nations' 26th Conference on Parties

Google to ban ads appearing next to climate denial content

The new rules will prohibit ads for, and monetisation of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change

Getting to grips with net-zero

India has unleashed a variety of policies and measures to reach the net-zero goal

Trio get Physics Nobel for work on climate change, complex physical systems

Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann, and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics

Global airlines deepen climate goal despite Chinese opposition

IATA Director General Willie Walsh acknowledged the goal would be "an additional challenge at a very difficult time," but appealed for unity.

Clash of economy and ecology in global politics

These 30 years have also taught us that we cannot ensure sustainable growth unless it is affordable and inclusive

BS Views of the Week: Looking beyond net-zero, and making NMP a success

From the crucial ingredient missing in global climate talks to how the National Monetisation Pipeline venture can succeed, here's what Business Standard columnists and editorials had to say this week

Social media is reducing climate change debates to your views on veganism

This appears to be further cementing the idea that climate change is a matter of ideology, making it harder to convince people to support action to tackle it.

Centre forms expert committee for sustainable climate finance

India has on multiple international, reiterated that the developed countries, the rich nations, must provide finance for the poor countries

Debt for climate and green power

India's climate targets are not conditional, but its negotiating position has been that finance and technology must be made available to developing countries

Investors with $4 trn assets aim to tackle Asian firms on climate goals

A group of six investors with a combined $4 trillion of assets under management, including Fidelity International, said on Wednesday it aims to step up engagement with big Asian companies

On climate change, Biden $3.5 trillion plan making up for lost time

Joe Biden said climate change is everybody's crisis and America must get serious about the code red danger posed by global warming

Climate change challenge for entire ecosystem: PM Narendra Modi

Modi said that steps taken to create a seeds-to-market ecosystem will ensure the country's strong economic growth

Thunberg chides world leaders for 'blah, blah, blah' on climate

Thunberg, who coalesced the global protest movement Fridays for Future, optimistically said it wasn't too late to reverse climate trends

PM calls for bolstering efforts to tackle climate change impact on farming

Modi interacted with farmers from different states

Reducing cyclone impacts: Double benefits of climate protection

Increasing global warming from currently one to two degrees Celsius by mid-century might put about 25 per cent more people at risk of tropical cyclones, a new study has found out.