Paris Climate Deal

It would be wrong to think that nothing has been achieved. A great deal has, though far too slowly - for which lack of speed the world, especially its poor, will pay the price, writes T N Ninan

The minister said though India is home to 17 per cent of the global population, it accounts for only 4 per cent of global carbon emissions

Limiting the world's temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average by mid-century was crucial in order to avoid irreversible damage to the planet: UN

Massive electrification and a switch to green sources of electricity could be an ideal decarbonisation strategy for India, suggests the former deputy chairman of the Planning Commission

Getting India's support will be key to the success of the United Nations-backed COP26 climate talks scheduled to occur in Glasgow, Scotland in November

UN chief Antonio Guterres said the absence of a key player for the past four years was a missing link that created a gap and weakened the historic accord

For investments to rise more, though, the country may need to fix its ailing power distribution sector

Modi said: "We have reduced our emission intensity by 21 per cent over 2005 levels"

1.7 billion people to face severe water shortage due to the decline in glacier runoffs in Central Europe and Tibetan Plateau between 2030 and 2050

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Lower income countries are the hardest hit by climate change, but have lower coping capacity, the Germanwatch report said

Prakash Javadekar, who attended the 29th BASIC ministers' meeting said the meeting worked out priorities as a group to be highlighted at the UN Climate Change Conference

Winning Modi also helped Obama get other countries like South Africa and Brazil on board

As planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions hit their highest levels in human history in 2018, the five companies wracked up total profits of $55 billion

Nations on Sunday struck a deal to breathe life into the landmark 2015 Paris climate treaty after marathon UN talks that failed to match the ambition the world's most vulnerable countries need to avert dangerous global warming. Delegates from nearly 200 states finalised a common rule book designed to deliver the Paris goals of limiting global temperature rises to well below two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit). "Putting together the Paris agreement work programme is a big responsibility," said COP24 president Michal Kurtyka as he gavelled through the deal after talks in Poland that ran deep into overtime. "It has been a long road. We did our best to leave no one behind." But states already dealing with devastating floods, droughts and extreme weather made worse by climate change said the package agreed in the mining city of Katowice lacked the bold ambition to cut emissions the world needed. Egyptian ambassador Wael Aboulmagd, chair of a the G77 & China negotiating bloc, said the .

Researchers conclude that nations must raise their ambition by three times to meet the 2 degrees Celsius target and five times to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius target

Trump had said that the agreement on climate change was unfair to the US, as it badly hit its businesses and jobs

He said, 'If somebody said, go back into the Paris accord, it would have to be a completely different deal because we had a horrible deal'

Notification received yesterday was communicated by US Permanent Representative to UN Nikki Haley

Donald Trump said the deal 'punished' the US and would cost millions of American jobs