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Team Joe Biden: A climate adviser who is an India-Pakistan pundit too

John Kerry, Biden's pick for climate envoy, also knows the Afghanistan-Pakistan axis for a long time

US Fed joins international group of central banks in climate change fight

The US Federal Reserve has joined an international group of central banks focused on climate change risk, a signal that it could move to incorporate the impacts of global warming into regulatory writ

Britain to end government support for fossil fuel sector exports

The announcement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson comes a day before he co-hosts a virtual summit with more than 70 world leaders to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord

India not responsible for climate change, says Prakash Javadekar

He remarked that India is the only G20 nation to be in compliance with the Paris deal

European Union leaders agree to reduce emissions after all-night talks

'We decided to cut our greenhouse gas emissions of at least 55 per cent by 2030'

International Mountain Day: How are they under threat and what's at stake

International Mountain Day 2020: Let us take a look at why they are so important for the planet and what threatens them the most

Microsoft, ITV among 13 more firms to join Amazon's Climate Pledge

With the 13 new signatories, 31 companies have now joined The Climate Pledge

India sets up committee for implementation of climate change targets

The Apex Committee for Implementation of Paris Agreement (AIPA) will have members from 14 ministries.

2020 one of the three warmest years on record, decade to be hottest

Greenland lost 152 billion tons of ice this year, a slower rate than 2019

Carbon pricing rises as world's weapon of choice in climate fight

China, Japan and South Korea have all followed the European Union in pledging to cut emissions to "net zero" in recent weeks, where they release only as much as they remove from the air

Optimism on renewables

India will need increased effort to meet the targets

G20 Summit: Climate change must not be fought in silos, says PM Modi

Climate change must be fought not in silos but in an integrated, comprehensive and holistic way, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a G20 event

India has set target of cutting carbon footprint by 30-35%: PM Modi

Modi also said that work is constantly going on to strengthen the start-ups in the energy sector

India not on track to hit climate goals, should limit emissions: G20 report

This year's report analyses G20 countries' performance across 100 indicators of climate adaptation, mitigation and finance, among other things

France's biggest glacier is melting, you should see it before it disappears

"There's sometimes a certain anxiety of seeing the Mer de Glace before it disappears"

Singapore's fortune is tied to water but sand may hold key to the future

Singapore's stockpiles are as strategic as America's petroleum reserves. Sand, or something like it, will be a hot commodity as long as there is a Singapore

Capitalist growth triggered climate change; it must also be the solution

One argument that's gained ground in recent years is that growth itself is the problem

Global leaders at UN meet: If virus does not kill us, climate change will

The pandemic has muted the U.N. meeting, with world leaders speaking not from the podium in New York but via video from home

The Arctic, one place you don't want to get green is getting greener

Responsible for Earth's cooling, Arctic's sea ice cover shrank by 3.74 million square km in 2020

Humpback Whales migrating north as climate change triggers ocean warming

The study will involve multiple cruises to the whales' feeding grounds in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica and the coastlines of the three continents where they breed