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Needs to build resilience in people living in coastal areas: Union minister

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Saturday said India needs to build resilience among people living in coastal areas with the changing climate across the globe. India's coastline is of immense strategic, economic and social importance to the country, he said. Addressing the first National Conference on Sustainable Coastal Management in India here, the minister said, "With the changing climate, we need to build the resilience of communities living in coastal areas." A programme on enhancing climate resilience of coastal communities is being implemented in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Supported by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the initiative is integrating ecosystem and community-based approaches to adaptation into coastal management and planning. Spanning 7,500 kilometres, India's coastline is the seventh longest in the world, and is home to 20 per cent of the country's population, he said. "

India opts out of trade talks with a US-led group of Asian nations

Known as IPEF, the initiative is an effort by President Joe Biden's administration to deepen ties with Asian nations through a range of issues including trade, climate change, supply chains and tax

HSBC commits Rs 125 cr to green causes in India over next 5 years

Foreign lender HSBC on Friday committed Rs 125 crore over the next five years to support green causes like wetland conservation and energy transition projects in India. The lender said in a statement that the measures are is being taken as part of its efforts to limit the impact of climate change. Under the commitment, it has divided the works into two broad themes, including energy transition and nature-based solutions. The nature-based solutions will include projects to protect and revitalise wetlands, mangroves and forests, landscape restoration and promote sustainable agriculture, it said. Energy transition will include renewables and/or energy efficiency programmes to support the shift towards renewables and scale efficiency initiatives in sectors like healthcare, dairy cold chain and for productive energy use by communities, it added. "Sustainability for us is about long-term survival going hand in hand with conservation and community upliftment," its country chief executive

Amid political unrest, faltering economy, Pak floods turn into a nightmare

Pakistan's climate minister, Sherry Rehman, called the floods a catastrophe of "very epic proportion"

India, US must cooperate in climate change, semiconductors: Gautam Adani

The two countries must commit to 'free trade, openness, integration' of economies, says Adani Group chairman in award acceptance speech.

Environment-driven taxes: An interesting challenge for policymakers

The question of designing and imposing environmental taxes with specific objectives remains challenging due to the complexities involved

Pakistan floods show climate adaptation requires international support

Flooding in Pakistan shows that climate adaptation requires international support and regional co-operation

Nearly 1,300 people die in Pakistan due to floods even as rescue ops on

Pakistan's catastrophic floods resulted in the death of nearly 1,300 people in the country even as relief operations continue

New energy conundrum

It is not just a moral imperative, but a pre-requisite for a world that has a chance to keep the spiralling temperatures within check

US defence department plans aid mission to Pakistan amid devastating floods

The United States is conducting a military assistance mission to flood-devastated Pakistan, the US armed forces' Central Command (CENTCOM) said

Amid floods, inflation, a political crisis is the last thing Pakistan needs

Accused of economic mismanagement and toppled in a no-confidence vote in April, Imran Khan has since kept up a steady stream of attacks on the coalition government that replaced him

India showing intent to address climate issue: Environment Minister at G20

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday said India is showing intent as a problem solver despite not being a traditional contributor to global emissions. Addressing the opening ceremony of the G20 environmental and climate ministerial meeting in Bali, Indonesia, he said the promise of climate finance from developed countries remains a mirage and its current pace and scale does not match the global aspiration to combat climate change. Yadav also said the primary responsibility for the transition towards net-zero emissions rests with those who have historically accounted for most of the accumulated greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Net zero means achieving a balance between the greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere and those taken out. "While India has not been a traditional contributor to global emissions, we are showing the intent in our actions to be a problem solver," he said. The minister said India is totally committed to driving its low-carbo

Pakistan could have averted climate catastrophe that has killed over 1,000

A changing climate will make the problems Pakistan is experiencing now even worse. Warmer air is able to hold more moisture, making extreme monsoon rainfall a more frequent occurrence

Countries should not leave Pakistan at mercy of climate change: PM Sharif

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the international community should not leave developing countries like Pakistan at the mercy of climate change

Pakistan fatal flooding has hallmarks of warming induced by climate change

The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm's way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable Pakistan to create unrelenting rain and deadly flooding. The flooding has all the hallmarks of a catastrophe juiced by climate change, but it is too early to formally assign blame to global warming, several scientists tell The Associated Press. It occurred in a country that did little to cause the warming, but keeps getting hit, just like the relentless rain. This year Pakistan has received the highest rainfall in at least three decades. So far this year the rain is running at more than 780% above average levels, said Abid Qaiyum Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute and a member of Pakistan's Climate Change Council. Extreme weather patterns are turning more frequent in the region and Pakistan is not an ...

274 mn people will need humanitarian assistance, protection in 2022: PMNCH

About 274 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection in 2022, a significant increase from 235 million people a year ago, which was already the highest figure in decades, according to the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH). Conflict, climate change and COVID-19 combine to create a breeding ground for sexual and gender-based violence against vulnerable women, children and adolescents worldwide, including in South Asia, said the PMNCH, which is said to be the world's largest alliance for women's, children's and adolescents' health and well-being. In 2022, about 274 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection. This number is a significant increase from 235 million people a year ago, which was already the highest figure in decades, it said in a statement. "While global estimates show that nearly one-third of ever-partnered women and girls aged 1549 has experienced physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime, the ...

Centre submits NDC climate target to UNFCC, eyes net-zero by 2070

No Sectoral Targets, 500 GW renewable energy target also dropped

A cotton crisis is upon us as climate change takes a toll on crops

Climate adaptability needs to be improved without compromising on yield potential

Almost half of Europe facing its worst drought for 500 years: Study

Much of Europe has faced weeks of baking temperatures this summer, which worsened the drought, caused wildfires, set off health warnings, and prompted calls for more action to tackle climate change

Rains, pests force world's top cotton producer India to import supplies

This confluence of extreme weather events brought on by climate change has sent cotton prices soaring by as much as 30%