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IPCC report endorses India's call for climate justice: Bhupender Yadav

The Report notes that finance flows from developed to developing countries fall short of the levels needed to meet climate goals across all sectors and regions

Bhupender Yadav makes plea to boost environmental funding at COP15

India's Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav has expressed hope that the COP15 will put in place the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Explained: What is 'loss and damage' fund, what is India's take on it

Agreement on financing one of the most significant steps in UN climate talks in 30 years

Climate talks poised for disaster fund deal to compensate poor nations

Negotiators say they have struck a potential breakthrough deal on the thorniest issue of United Nations climate talks, the creation of a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich nations' carbon pollution. There is an agreement on loss and damage, which is what negotiators call the concept, Maldives Environment Minister Aminath Shauna told The Associated Press on Saturday. It still needs to be approved unanimously in a vote later today. That means for countries like ours we will have the mosaic of solutions that we have been advocating for. We proposed a text and this actually just has just been accepted, so we now have a fund, Norway Climate and Environment minister Espen Barth Eide told the AP. New Zealand Climate Minister James Shaw said both the poor countries that would get the money and the rich ones that would give it are on board with the proposed deal. If approved, it's a big win for poorer nations which have been calling for

COP27 extended by a day as disagreement over key issues continues

The UN climate talks have been extended by a day in an effort to break the deadlock over key issues, including mitigation work programme, loss and damage and climate finance. Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said COP27 was supposed to wrap up on Friday but has been "extended by a day to attempt to take the ongoing negotiations to a logical end". Providing an update on the negotiations in a blog post, he said a lot of issues, including the mitigation work program, the global goal on adaptation, loss and damage, and climate finance are being negotiated as they remain contentious. "COP is a party-driven process and hence consensus on key issues is vital to the process. The extension is an attempt towards achieving just that," he said. In an effort to break the deadlock, the European Union's chief negotiator Frans Timmermans proposed a plan that tied loss and damage with emission cuts. The success of the talks hinges on a fund to address loss and damage, a term used for ...

Developed nations backtrack on climate fund: Small island states at COP27

The inaction of many developed countries has potential to stall talks and deal a devastating blow to hopes of the developing world for the establishment of a loss and damage funding facility at COP27

COP27: Biofuels and green H2 to power India's low-carbon growth

Minister outlines plan for carbon reduction

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UN probes Egypt police misconduct claims at international climate talks

The United Nations says it is investigating allegations of misconduct by Egyptian police officers providing security at this year's international climate talks. This follows claims that attendees of events at the German pavilion for the COP27 summit were photographed and filmed after Germany hosted an event there with the sister of a jailed Egyptian pro-democracy activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, who also holds U.K. citizenship. In a statement provided Sunday to The Associated Press, the U.N. climate office confirmed that some of the security officers working in the part of the venue designated as United Nations territory come from the host country, Egypt. This was due to the scale and complexity of providing security at a large scale event" such as the COP27 climate talks, the global body said. It added that their work takes place under the direction of the operations of the U.N. Department for Safety and Security (UN DSS). The security officers provided for this COP by the host countr

COP 27: Confidence of investors key to meet climate goals, says India

Leena Nandan strongly emphasised the need for information dissemination to strengthen communities for adaptation readiness

COP27: India, China on track to overachieve 2030 UN climate targets

The analysis on India and China's electricity sector highlights how renewable energy is slowly replacing fossils

Energy colonialism, climate reparations: COP27 and key concepts to know

As countries come together at COP27 to take actions on the collective goals under the Paris Agreement and Convention in Egypt, here are the key concepts you must know about

On highway to climate hell, humanity has a choice - cooperate or perish: UN

This year's annual UN climate conference, known as COP27, comes as leaders and experts have raised increasing alarm that time is running out to avert catastrophic rises in temperature

India to seek clarity on $100 billion climate financing at COP27

Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav will represent India at the session

Poor nations to seek assistance for climate actions at COP27: LDC Chief

The chair of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Egypt has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda. Madeleine Diouf Sarr, who chairs the Least Developed Countries group, told The Associated Press that the November conference known as COP27 should capture the voice and needs of the most climate-vulnerable nations and deliver climate justice. Sarr said the group would like to see an agreement to establish a dedicated financial facility that pays nations that are already facing the effects of climate change at the summit. The LDC group, comprised of 46 nations that make up just a small fraction of global emissions, negotiates as a bloc at the UN summit to champion the interests of developing countries. Issues such as who pays for poorer nations to transition to cleaner energy, making sure no communities get left behind in an energy transition and boosting how well vulnerable ..

Centre submits NDC climate target to UNFCC, eyes net-zero by 2070

No Sectoral Targets, 500 GW renewable energy target also dropped

World's major companies lag on climate, some markets regress since Paris

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

'Budget 2022 sends important signal to markets, financial institutions'

These were the views of climate experts and negotiators who participated in several international diplomatic meets, including the just concluded UN Climate Change Conference or COP26

India needs constellation of actions to deal with climate change: N K Singh

Singh said the climate change issue goes far beyond the confines of the Constitution as it has multiple dimensions

India is hanging on to coal but its EV education campaign is visionary

E-Amrit is a government-run portal that's a one-stop shop for all your electric vehicle questions.