India has committed to ambitious targets, including a 45 per cent reduction in emissions intensity by 2030 and sourcing 50 per cent of electric power from non-traditional sources
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Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) works towards delivering transformational programs to accelerate equitable energy transition in developing and emerging economies
The G20 leaders committed to accelerating clean and affordable energy transitions. The baton has been picked up by the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)
According to a study, tropical forests may get so hot that some types of leaves won't be able to carry out photosynthesis.
Climate change driven by global increase in temperatures is behind heavy rainfall in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, scientists have said.
Global warming could cost Australia's economy hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming decades if workplaces cannot adapt to soaring temperatures, a government report said Thursday.
As Europe and other regions swelter, a UN researcher cautioned that climate change was enabling increasingly intense and long-lasting heatwaves, which in some areas could soon begin to hit year-round.
As summer heat waves grow more frequent and extreme because of climate change, so do the risks to human health.
After decades immersed in Antarctic science, Ive learned that physical and biological changes rarely occur smoothly. More often than not, they unfold in sharp steps. Right now, Antarctica's climate and ecosystems are experiencing disturbing changes.
Amid record-high temperatures globally, a study Monday reveals that a few days of searing heat can be enough to prevent billions of people already living hand-to-mouth on daily wages from putting food on the table.
Emergency services said the fire was now affecting 10 towns, although 11 had been evacuated as a precaution.
Europe is once again battling scorching temperatures this summer, with wildfires blazing across the continent from the Mediterranean to Spain. Here's how climate change drives these events.
Climate change has impacted the Middle East and North Africa where summer is already very hot. Many in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia still labour in the heat.
Climate change has displaced many island communities and impacted their language structures, such as the Teressa Island community in the Bay of Bengal.
Several studies have projected the growth of Earth's deserts under the influence of global warming.
In 2009, statistician Paul Murtaugh and climate scientist Michael Schlax calculated that having just one child in a high-emitting country such as the United States will add around 10,000 tonnes of CO to the atmosphere. Thats five times the emission
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India has achieved the green targets it had set for itself much ahead of schedule and has shown the world the way to fight climate change.
Last week during a visit to Baghdad, United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk warned that "rising temperatures plus the drought, and the fact that the loss of diversity is a reality, is a wake-up call for Iraq and for the world".
With climate change posing a threat to water security in cities such as Delhi, the city government's Environment Minister Gopal Rai has said extreme weather is not a challenge for the national capital alone and collaboration among
Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains have killed five people and forced the evacuation of around 40,000 others in Myanmar, officials said Friday.
Total deaths from record-breaking rains across northern China rose to at least 78 on Friday, as authorities warned of more flooding and another storm approached the country.
India's greenhouse emissions rate dropped by a faster-than-expected 33% in 14 years as renewable energy generation rose and forest cover increased, according to two officials privy to latest assessment made for submission to the United Nations.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef could deteriorate if warming ocean temperatures spark another mass coral bleaching event later this year, the country's top marine science body said Wednesday.
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