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Climate debt-trap risks pushing vulnerable emerging markets to brink

Rising global borrowing costs are denting the finances of some of the most climate-vulnerable countries right when they most need money to fight the devastating impacts of global warming

COP27: India thwarts attempt to club it with historical polluters

Supported by other developing countries, India blocked an attempt by rich nations to focus on all top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide during discussions on the 'Mitigation Work Programme' at the ongoing UN climate summit in Egypt, sources said on Monday. During the first week of the climate talks, developed countries desired that all top 20 emitters, including India and China, discuss intense emission cuts and not just the rich nations which are historically responsible for climate change, they said. There are developing countries in the top 20 emitters, including India, that are not responsible for warming that has already occurred. According to the sources, India pushed back the attempt with the support of like-minded developing countries, including China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. The "MWP should not lead to the reopening of the Paris Agreement" which clearly mentions that climate commitments of countries have to be nationally determined based on ...

COP27: Call for urgent action to reduce emissions across industry

'Climate crisis is existential, overriding and ever present and we need to look at every piece of the puzzle, including the decarbonization of the industrial sectors that underpin the global economy'

United Nations to seek out methane gas emitters with data from space

Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year, when the global body launches a new platform to combine existing systems for tracking the potent greenhouse gas from space. The UN Environment Programme said on Friday that the new Methane Alert and Response System MARS for short is intended to help companies act on major emissions sources but also provide data in a transparent and independent way. It draws on satellite measurements performed by NASA and the European, German and Italian space agencies. Data from private satellite operators will also be incorporated in future. Each of these instruments give us a correct answer to a question that is slightly different, because each of them see different things," said Manfredi Caltagirone, head of the International Methane Emissions Observatory at UNEP. "So the only way you can have a correct picture is to connect them all together. The data will be released 45 to 75 days afte

Scientists say global warming beyond 1.5 degrees threshold likely

While exceeding the 1.5-degree limit appears inevitable, the researchers chart several potential courses in which the overshoot period is shortened, in some cases by decades

What is the Mangrove Alliance for Climate, and what does it aim to achieve?

Spearheaded by the UAE in partnership with Indonesia, MAC was launched at the COP27 Summit in Egypt to scale up and accelerate the conservation and restoration of the mangrove forests

Emmanuel Macron urges France's big polluters to cut emissions by half

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged the country's most climate-damaging industries to double their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade, one day after his call for action at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt. Macron convened a meeting Tuesday at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris with the heads of some 50 industrial sites in France, accounting for about 10% of France's total greenhouse gas emissions. He urged the 50 sites, owned by about 30 French and international groups, to cut by half their emissions within the next decade, from over 40 millions of tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere to about 20 millions of tons. The industries include major producers of cement, steel, aluminum and other metals and chemicals. In exchange, the French state is ready to double its financial aid on condition another similar meeting in 2024 ensures the goal can be met, Macron said. If you double your efforts... we will double

COP27: CDRI to propose climate-change adaptation projects on Nov 17

Environment minister Bhupender Yadav says country 'making swift progress' in building such systems

COP27: Polluters must pay for climate change, poor nations tell rich

Small island states already buffeted by violent ocean storms and sea-level rise called on oil companies to shell out some of the recent profits, while developing African states called for more funds

Recession, climate change, Ukraine war: Kant lists challenges before G20

The former Niti Aayog chief executive said that climate change was another big crisis that the world faced, impacting larger nations, as well as threatening to submerge smaller island nations

At COP27, India supports early warning systems on climate impacts

Environment minister Bhupender Yadav says country 'making swift progress' in building such systems

What happens after warming hits 1.5C? A guide to climate overshoot

"The thing that's obviously really important to say is that the 1.5C limit is a political limit," says David Keith, a Harvard University physicist and an adviser to the Climate Overshoot Commission

COP27: 112 nations pledge to protect 30% of land and ocean by 2030

Lord Zac Goldsmith, Minister of State for the UK, announced that in discussions with the governments of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, they had all declared their support for the 30x30 land and ocean target

On highway to climate hell, humanity has a choice - cooperate or perish: UN

This year's annual UN climate conference, known as COP27, comes as leaders and experts have raised increasing alarm that time is running out to avert catastrophic rises in temperature

Climate change woes are bad, getting worse: UN weather report

The report titled 'WMO Provisional State of the Global Climate 2022' released at the 27th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC on Sunday stated that the rate of sea level rise has doubled since 1993

COP27 climate summit: What India can expect at UNFCCC meet in Egypt?

UN summits - climate change conference in Egypt and biodiversity summit in Canada to which India is a crucial Party- are considered to be pivotal moments in global efforts to address global warming

Climate activists glue themselves to paintings in Madrid's Prado museum

In the weeks leading up to the COP27 climate change summit in Egypt, groups of climate activists have staged a number of related protests

Talking climate change: A look at India's stance over past COP sessions

Country wants greater climate accountability by richer nations

France experiences hottest Oct since 1945 with average temp of 17.2 deg C

The average temperature this October was about 3.5 degrees Celsius higher than normal across the country, Xinhua news agency quoted Meteo-France as saying

World slips on deforestation, loses cover equal to Ireland's area in 2021

Global gross deforestation amounted to 6.8 million hectares in 2021 with 3.9 giga-tonnes of CO2 equivalent of associated GHG emissions