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Key role for WTO to meet emission targets

The 12th Ministerial Conference of WTO is scheduled to start at Geneva from the end of this month

BS Views of the Week: Plan B for climate change and countering China's navy

From a Plan B looking beyond govts to combat climate change to how India can secure maritime interests amid growing China threat, here's what Business Standard columnists and editorials said this week

EKI Energy expects Rs 1,000 cr turnover this fiscal, 50% growth in 2022-23

Founded in 2011, EKI Energy is one of the leading companies in the carbon credit industry in India with an established global footprint

Climate protesters plan to march through Glasgow amid UN climate talks

Inside the conference venue, negotiators knuckled down for a seventh day of talks to finish draft agreements that can be passed to ministers for political approval next week

Ice on the edge of survival: Warming is changing the Arctic

Siberia even hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). Even a region called the Last Ice Area showed unexpected melting this year

Greta Thunberg calls Glasgow COP26 climate summit 'a failure'

Greta Thunberg called the UN climate talks in Glasgow "so far a failure", accusing leaders of actively creating loopholes in the rules and greenwashing their countries' emissions.

India's approaching democratic crisis

In India, we will soon face a variation of this problem, created by the differing demographic, cultural and economic trajectories of various parts of the country

Best of BS Opinion: Accounting for climate change, tough choices, and more

Here are the best of BS Opinion pieces of the day

India's green shoots for the planet

Its Panchamrita pledge at Glasgow burnishes its climate credentials, but a perilous future awaits the world

Climate change will kill sovereignty as we know it

A concept that came out of the Thirty Years War could become obsolete in the age of ecological apocalypse

Footprint of top 1% threatens 1.5 degrees Celsius limit, says study

The richest 1 per cent are on track to be releasing 70 tonnes of CO2 per person, according to the study.

Climate goals: Can investor activism deliver what govts could not?

The moves by investors and accounting innovations by economists and auditors could make a critical difference on the margin. Call it Plan B; there is no Plan C, writes T N Ninan

Glimmers of hope seen for global carbon market deal at COP26

Brazil is seen by some carbon market experts as the most outspoken hold-out on certain issues under Article 6 viewed by many nations as an impediment to a deal

India can guide the world in dealing with climate change: Minister

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has placed India in a position where it can guide the world in dealing with the crisis of climate change, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said here on Friday.

Amazon, Apple, Mahindra join coalition to drive zero-carbon tech demand

The Coalition has been launched at the COP26 Summit being held in Glasgow

COP26: 'End of coal is in sight' as more than 70 nations join new pact

The British government said on Wednesday it expected 190 nations and organisations to sign the non-binding pledge

Satellites could help track if nations keep their carbon pledges

The researchers said that by plugging satellite measurements of CO2 into an Earth-systems model, they were able to detect small reductions in atmospheric concentration of the gas over the US

Whose net zero future?

India is in a fortunate position in that almost every action to improve productivity and equity will be carbon reducing

COP26: Countries pledge to phase out climate culprit coal in new pact

Poland, Vietnam and Chile among those pledging to phase out fossil fuel for first time

New climate target poses upside risks to renewable growth outlook: Fitch

At the 2021 Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, Modi outlined a net zero emissions target by 2070 for India