COP28: GEAPP Presents TETD Communique For An Actionable Roadmap Towards Energy Transition

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

Energy Transitions Innovation Challenge (ENTICE) aims to encourage innovation in sustainable energy solutions and support entrepreneurs

The document, Blueprint for a People-Positive Energy Transition, will work as a guide and offer a roadmap to expedite a sustainable energy transition for India and the world. The document offers essential principles and an actionable plan that will help in the long run

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)

Vanuatu is drawing up plans to relocate "dozens" of villages within the next two years, as they come under threat from rising seas, the Pacific nation's climate chief told AFP Thursday.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has driven countries across the world to boost energy efficiency, creating "huge potential" to tackle high prices, security and climate change, the IEA said on Friday.

The world must cooperate to tackle the greatest challenges of climate change, terrorism, and pandemics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday as India began its year-long presidency of the Group of 20 (G20).

An environmental protest group called Tyre Extinguishers claims to have deflated close to 900 SUVs and 4x4s worldwide.

As the global temperature is rising, a number of glaciers and permafrost are melting, releasing microbes trapped in the icy grip for centuries. Among them is a roughly 50,000-year-old 'zombie virus', which has been revived.

The thawing of ancient permafrost due to climate change may pose a new threat to humans, according to researchers who revived nearly two dozen viruses - including one frozen under a lake more than 48,500 years ago.

Canada launched a new Indo-Pacific strategy on Sunday, vowing more resources to deal with a "disruptive" China while working with the world's second-biggest economy on climate change and trade issues.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today said a concentrated global push for millets is needed as the three Cs of climate change, Covid-19 and conflict are impacting food security in some way or the other.

India is ranked among the top five countries, and the best among the G-20 nations, under the global Climate Change Performance Index, an official statement said.

The study also said that these bacteria could include potentially harmful pathogens.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will kick-start the customary pre-budget meetings beginning Monday with a special focus on issues concerning climate change and infrastructure.

Climate-change protesters threw flour on Friday over a sports car painted by the USpop artist Andy Warhol that is on display in Italy's financial capital.

A first formal draft of the UN climate summit deal in Egypt was published on Friday, yet again leaving out India's call for phase down of all fossil fuels and without any proposal on loss and damage funding.

UN chief Antonio Guterres urged rich and developing nations to stop the "finger pointing" at crunch climate talks on Thursday and reach a deal on covering the losses suffered by vulnerable nations battered by weather disasters.

Rich nations are making a push to include language such as "major emitters" and "top emitters" in the cover text of the ongoing UN climate summit in Egypt which is not acceptable to India, a member of the Indian delegation said.

France and Spain on Thursday joined a pledge to stop sales of gasoline-driven vehicles by 2035, five years earlier than previously planned, part of efforts to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.

The European Union on Wednesday said it would dedicate more than $1 billion in climate funding to help countries in Africa boost their resilience in the face of the accelerating impact of global warming.

As COP27 delegates in Egypt debate planet-heating emissions, the climate crisis is exacerbating devastating hunger across several African nations and will worsen further without urgent action, the UN said Wednesday.

Scientists identify each manta rays by unique spot pattern on their belly, like human fingerprints.

India climbed two spots to rank eighth out of 63 in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2023, thanks to its low emissions and the increasing use of renewable energy.