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This pilot trading scheme in Surat could help firms reduce air pollution
Industries participating in the pilot scheme reduced their particulate matter pollution by 24% (with an 8% margin of error)
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In world hurting from floods and fire, insurance firms won't offer bailout
If it becomes too expensive to cover losses for natural disasters, insurers will pull back toward areas that are more profitable.
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Start climate change battle with your AC
After Cooling has its greatest impact when it asks us to think deeply about the reasons humans wish to change the temperature of their surroundings
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Best of BS Opinion: Living in 'interesting times', Af without Pak & Islam
Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day.
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When Iron Man backed agri start-up ClimateAi to fight climate change
ClimateAi was co-founded in 2015 by Himanshu Gupta, a former climate and energy expert with the Niti Aayog, along with Max Evans, a machine learning expert with a farming lineage
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G20 agrees statement on environment, struggles over climate progress
The G20 meeting is seen as a key intermediate stage ahead of global climate talks known as COP 26 to be held in Glasgow in November.
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The many paths to a greener future
Jayant Sinha and Anshu Bharadwaj note that India is demonstrating a new paradigm in which economic growth does not have to go together with the consumption of fossil fuels and increasing emissions
Central banks, wealth funds going greener and more activist: Survey
Covid-19 is accelerating a shift by central banks and sovereign wealth and public pension funds to greener and more activist investment strategies, one of the largest annual surveys showed
Democrats propose tax on imports from countries without climate laws
Two influential Democratic lawmakers are proposing to introduce bicameral legislation to impose a tax on imports from countries like China and many others
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Climate change to bring more intense, slow moving storms across Europe
Climate change is driving a large increase in intense, slow-moving storms, a new study has found
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EU unveils climate masterplan to 'give humanity a fighting chance'
The proposals by the EU's executive branch, the European Commission, range from the de-facto phasing out of gasoline and diesel cars by 2035 to new national limits on gases from heating buildings.
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Climate change financial 'stress tests' need improving, global body says
Key challenges have been the much longer time horizons required to assess vulnerabilities to global warming compared to traditional stress tests
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New UN global biodiversity framework to manage nature through 2030
UN Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat has released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature
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Handful of cities driving greenhouse gas emissions in urban hubs: Report
Just 25 big cities - almost all of them in China - accounted for more than half of the climate-warming gases pumped out by a sample of 167 urban hubs around the world
South Asia risks water insecurity as global warming affects Himalayas
Warming-induced changes in the Himalaya-Karakoram region will impact water availability in the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra basins.
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Sitharaman emphasises the role of technology in fighting climate change
Sitharaman on Friday emphasised on the role of technology in fighting climate change and called for international cooperation to increase supply of alternative sources of energy and technologies.
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Decarbonisation isn't goal, human welfare is: World Resources Institute CEO
Dasgupta tells Subhomoy Bhattacharjee that India's requirements to ensure energy for all its citizens and raise per capita income should be an acceptable part of global climate strategy
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G20: Sitharaman emphasises on role of technology in fighting climate change
The minister participated virtually in the G20 High-Level Tax Symposium on Tax Policy and climate change
European Central Bank tweaks inflation target, bolsters climate role
ECB President Christine Lagarde has driven an 18-month deep dive into the inner workings of the bank, challenging even core principles of central banking
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Caricatures of a crisis
Book review of Green Humour for a Greying Planet
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