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Free public transport is boon for the environment but it's no silver bullet
An optimal policy needs to carefully balance subsidies for public transport use with petrol taxes and investments in the public transport network
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How climate change can result in low sperm count, extinction of species
A common fingerprint of a warmer world is a range shift, where the distribution of a species moves to higher altitudes or migrates toward the poles
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UN questions India's forest cover data over lack of transparency & clarity
India had submitted data to access potential funds from global carbon trade under Paris Agreement after 2020
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Six positive Climate change news stories we all probably missed in 2018
Global warming has left some wintery animals with mismatched camouflage, and it may even cause a global beer shortage
India succeeds in diplomacy to form climate change roadmap, wins accolades
India has committed that by 2030, as much as 40% of its installed energy capacity will be based on non-fossil fuels
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By 2060, nearly 1.4 bn will be at risk of becoming environmental migrants
Nearly 40% of Sundarban--the world's largest mangrove forest, three times as large as Goa--is in India, the rest is in neighbouring Bangladesh
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India's farm crisis will worsen with Earth on course to get 3 deg C warmer
f all countries managed to achieve all their climate commitments, the earth will still get 3 degrees C warmer by 2100
Katowice climate meet hasn't done much for the world's poor and vulnerable
International negotiators and India's business and political leaders need to come up with measures that can help the poor and the vulnerable now
Switching to flexible working culture may help reduce pollution. Here's how
The amount of carbon dioxide saved by this reduction is equivalent to the amount of carbon sequestered by 5.5 billion trees over ten years
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Real globalists deny it, but climate change is the actual 'New World Order'
Climate change is the direct result of human action - and some humans are so much more responsible than others
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Why Paris deal rulebook is not enough to make nations up their climate game
The Katowice text simply reiterates the existing request in the Paris Agreement for countries to communicate and update their contributions by 2020
Should climate be engineered? A social scientist, natural scientist discuss
The spectre of climate engineering hung heavily over the recent United Nations climate conference in Katowice, COP24
Why COP24 means hope for climate action despite leaders turning a blind eye
Donald Trump, and Brazil's president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, are both doubtful about climate science and have both suggested they would eventually like to withdraw from the Paris Agreement
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Katowice: Climate negotiators reach deal to keep Paris pact alive
Delegates from nearly 200 states finalised a common rule book designed to deliver the Paris goals of limiting global temperature rises to well below two degrees Celsius
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India says Katowice climate talks positive, green group disagrees
Negotiators from around 200 countries in Katowice on Sunday finalised a set of rules that will make the 2015 Paris agreement to curb global warming operational in 2020.
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Katowice: Nations inch towards climate deal to realise Paris climate goals
This means all countries, rich and poor alike, must agree to action that will cap global temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius
Climate Conference faces a crisis as differentiation is diluted in rulebook
US does want equity and Loss and Damage mentioned in the Paris Agreement rulebook
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I won't justify Trump's climate change policy for a second: Todd Stern
US diplomats are working in Katowice to implement the Paris Agreement, says Todd Stern, who was one of the architects of the Paris Agreement as America's special envoy on climate change when Barack Ob
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We must act on climate change regardless of what Trump thinks: John Kerry
If we fail, it won't be just the president's fault
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The influence international NGOs wield in Katowice climate change talks
The possibility of a conflict of interest rings larger when think-tanks from developed countries, and which draw funds from developed countries, help small developing country groups
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