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India likely to do better than its Paris agreement targets: FM tells IMF

India is all set to meet its Paris climate agreement target to reduce emissions by 33-35 per cent of its GDP by 2030 from the 2005 level, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has told the IMF

UK to call for end to global deforestation at COP 26: Reports

UK will urge world leaders at the upcoming 26th session of COP 26 to pledge their commitment to stopping and reversing deforestation, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions

Running out of time: UN report shows Earth on catastrophic path

Scientists have been increasingly vocal and specific about what will happen if the global temperature continues to rise

Paris climate goals at risk if only rich countries adopt electric cars

Part of the problem is that global automakers design their cars, vans and motorcycles to win over well-heeled customers in the West, largely ignoring the needs of potential buyers in poorer markets

India among 5 nations responsible for 80% of world's planned coal plants

These plants will endanger Paris climate goals despite the availability of cheaper renewables, a report by financial think tank Carbon Tracker said

World must remove 1 billion tonnes CO2 by 2025 to meet climate goal: Report

Projects in development will remove only a fraction of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air that needs extracting by 2025 to meet the global Paris climate target

Cloud over climate action

India may have to handle the new goalpost of carbon neutrality

It takes two to tango

A successful US-India climate partnership marked by techno-financial assistance to pursue carbon neutrality can set a template for the rest of the world

FM asks advanced economies to scale up climate change financing commitments

Sitharaman on Friday urged advanced economies to scale up their climate change financing commitments and help emerging countries build climate resilient infrastructure

President-elect Biden planning decree blitz to tear up Trump work on Day 1

Rejoining Paris climate change accord on top of a big stimulus plan on cards

India on course to exceed 2015 Paris agreement targets, says report

India is the third largest emitter of CO2/ NOx and is home to nine of the 10 most polluted cities globally

US should rewrite the China trade contract

The world has become too dependent on China to embrace restrictive trade actions against it

Big economies aim for net-zero emissions but India cannot afford to yet

The South Asian country has a tiny carbon footprint per person, but it can still still help in the green transition.

US presidential candidate Biden vows to rejoin Paris Climate Agreement

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has pledged that his administration would rejoin the historic Paris Agreement on climate change

Will rejoin Paris Climate agreement, re-enter Iran nuke deal, vows Harris

In 2017, Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris deal, saying the accord would have cost America trillions of dollars, killed jobs

Coal power plant capacity falls in India, Paris Agreement goal still far

The decline is attributed to cheaper renewable energy resources and increasing public resistance towards polluting sources

Covid-19 is sign of an ecological crisis

Dealing with it as if it were a singular phenomenon occurring in a single domain will not work

India top performer on Paris pledge, on track to achieve targets: Javadekar

The minister said that the country's forest cover has increased by 13,000 square km in the last five years

World's fossil fuel output plan inconsistent with Paris treaty: UN report

A UN report last year concluded that global CO2 emissions must drop 45% by 2030

Energy giants face 35% output cut to hit Paris climate goals: Watchdog

Carbon Tracker said that current rates of emissions from the energy majors would see the world's carbon budgets surpassed within decades due to an inexorable rise in oil and gas output