Page 132 - Climate Change

Best of BS Opinion: Lessons for BJP, India's economic slowdown, and more

Here's a collection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

From cyclones to floods, 2019 was a year of record extreme weather events

As this year draws to a close, we take a look at the extreme weather events that hit India in 2019 and their impacts.

EIB chief slams automakers, executives for slow response to climate change

The comments come as Hoyer's native Germany, Europe's largest economy, is experiencing a steep manufacturing slump driven by trade tensions, weak global growth and Brexit uncertainty.

India top performer on Paris pledge, on track to achieve targets: Javadekar

The minister said that the country's forest cover has increased by 13,000 square km in the last five years

Earth's inner core capped by snow made of iron particles, finds new study

The researchers, including those from the University of Texas at Austin in the US, studied this layer by recording and analysing signals from seismic waves as they passed through the Earth

Reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide

A descendant of CO2-eating e coli could be modified to make organic carbon molecules

Asia to keep world coal demand steady as environment concerns grow

Coal remains a major source of power across Southeast Asia, where breakneck economic development has spurred soaring energy demands -- but at a cost to the environment

Goldman Sachs says it will support 'green' initiatives more forcefully

Goldman also implemented a formal ban on financing certain drilling and coal activities

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

Circumventing climate action

New games are being played out to circumvent action - or at least to find ways to do as little as possible and as cheaply as possible

Combating climate change

Greta Thunberg and her generation might just have made enough of a difference to give the Earth a fighting chance

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

Experts want India's emission-cut pledge in Paris backed by stringent law

Countries which have enacted legislation in this regard are New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, Sweden and Scotland

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

Anger erupts at UN climate summit as major economies resist bold action

The agreement enters a crucial implementation phase in 2020, when countries are supposed to ratchet up their ambitions ahead of the next major round of talks in Glasgow

World leaders' commitments fall short of outcome at UN climate conference

The narrow aim of the Madrid negotiations is to finalise the rulebook for the 2015 climate accord, which enjoins nations to limit global temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius.

Citizenship Bill India's own issue, haven for minorities: Maldives' speaker

Responding to a question on Maldives' stand on the amended Citizenship Act, Nasheed said it is India's internal matter.

89% Indians believe climate change has negative impact on economy

According to IBM report, 72 per cent Indians also believe that the local economy has been disrupted by a severe weather event in the past year

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year

At 16, Thunberg is the youngest individual ever to be named TIME's Person of the Year

Climate change: 4.8 bn cooling equipments to be sold in 11 yrs, says study

Domestic and residential cooling accounts for more than 60 per cent of overall demand placing the onus on real estate developers and households