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Climate goals at risk, emissions by top emitters rebound: UN report

No credible pathway to restrict global warming to under 1.5 degrees Celsius, it says

Averting climate disasters requires bold emission reduction measure: UNEP

Community of nations must implement bold measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avert runaway climate emergencies including floods, droughts, heatwaves and cyclones, the UNEP said

Emissions to hit a peak by 2025, demand for fossil fuel to reduce: IEA

Global greenhouse emissions will peak in 2025 as the world goes through a "profound reorientation" in terms of energy use, said the World Energy Outlook 2022 report

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Marginal progress on climate

Even with 40 countries issuing new NDCs, the carbon mitigation pledges remain inadequate to contain the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of this century

India's per capita GHG emissions far below world average: UNEP report

At 2.4 tCO2e (tonne carbon dioxide equivalent), India's per capita greenhouse gas emissions were far below the world average of 6.3 tCO2e in 2020, according to a new report released by the United Nations Environment Programme on Thursday. The "Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window", released ahead of the UN Climate Change conference (COP27) in Egypt next month, also said the international community is still falling far short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway to limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius in place. To address climate change, countries adopted the Paris Agreement in 2015 to limit global temperature rise in this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. "World average per capita GHG emissions (including land use, land-use change, and forestry -- LULUCF) were 6.3 tCO2e in 2020. The US remains far above this level at 14 tCO2e, followed by 13 tCO2e in the Russian Federation,

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Earth on track to warm above 2C despite climate action, claims report

Despite some progress in the last year, governments need to do more by 2030 to ensure that the global temperature increase is below 2C and ideally closer to 1.5C

Greenhouse gases reach new record high levels in 2021: UN weather agency

The three main greenhouse gases hit record high levels in the atmosphere last year, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday, calling it an ominous sign as war in Ukraine, rising costs of food and fuel, and other worries have elbowed in on longtime concerns about global warming in recent months. More bad news for the planet, the World Meteorological Organisation said in a statement along with its latest annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. It's one of several reports released in recent days looking at several aspects of humanity's struggle with climate change in the run up to the UN's latest climate conference, in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Of the three main types of heat-trapping greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide the biggest jump from 2020 to 2021 was in methane, whose concentrations in the air came in with the biggest year-on-year increase since regular measurements began four decades ago, WMO said. The continuing rise in concentrations of the main heat-trappin

Climate risks: Headwinds for banking

"Climate action failure" still features among the foremost long-term threats, and its severity is increasing

Global campaign to ensure loss and damage not forgotten at COP27

With world leaders meeting at COP27 next month, the "Hack the Agenda" campaign is hijacking social media conversation and greenwashing in order to raise awareness about loss and damage

Mission LiFE launched: PM calls for concept of 'reduce, reuse & recycle'

LiFE was announced by Modi during COP26 last year. It is also a part of India's nationally determined contributions (NDC)

Indians think combating global warming is good economics: Report

A significant proportion of the adult population in India appears convinced that steps taken to combat climate change and global warming will actually be good economics

84% of Indians say global warming is happening and can't be ignored

A massive majority -- 84 per cent -- of Indians seem convinced that global warming is a reality that can no longer be ignored.

'Joe Biden's climate act will tip level playing field between US and EU'

Senior French and German officials warned Wednesday that recent measures by the Biden administration to address climate change and boost the American economy could upend the level playing field on trade between the European Union and the United States. The EU has criticised the legislation, approved by Congress in August, for including clauses that it says discriminate against European automakers. We need to work on adequate European responses to this American Inflation Reduction Act, which might jeopardize the developing field between our two continents, French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said after talks with his German counterparts. Asked what such a response might entail, Le Maire said, We are not talking about tit for tat." But he told reporters that France wanted to explore all the options with our European partners." We should seize any opportunity that we have to talk to the U.S. administration and to explain very clearly that we do not want to be hit by the

Spotty policies, Ukraine war darken India's climate change targets

The conflict will hamper further India's slow progress in meeting key goals

Concern about climate change shrinks globally as threat grows: Study

Only 20% of people in China, the world's biggest polluter, said they believed that climate change was a very serious threat, down 3 percentage points from the previous poll in 2019

66% CEOs in India expect recession in 2023; layoffs on the cards

Eighty-six per cent CEOs in India, compared to 71 per cent CEOs globally, predict that a recession will impact company earnings by up to 10 per cent over the next 12 months.

Guterres on India visit from today; to commemorate 75 years of India at UN

General Secretary Antonio Guterres is to visit India from today to commemorate India's 75-year partnership with the UN during which India's contribution to fighting climate change will be highlighted

Electric vehicles: Future of Earth's climate may be decided in traffic jam

The electrification of road transport is continuing at a breakneck pace