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China's quest to attain hegemony proves detrimental to global environment
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing's quest to attain hegemony has promoted unsafe industrial practices and has proved to be detrimental to the global environment as well.
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UN chief voices concern as divides threaten COP27 negotiations, deadline n
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The UN chief asked nations countries to deliver the kind of meaningful action that people and the planet desperately need. "The world is watching and has a simple message: stand and deliver," he underscored. Guterres reminded world leaders that global emissions are at their highest levels in
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Scientists say plants use epigenetic memories to adapt to climate change
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
While it is known that animals can adapt quickly to survive adverse environmental conditions, mounting evidence shows that plants can too.
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Green pea crop in Shimla affected by rain, farmers in distress
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The green pea crop in Himachal's Shimla district has failed this year owing to the excessive rain. The crops this year were sown late due to the prolonged period of rain. Most of the crop is now damaged due to early winters.
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Urgent need to produce and use energy in a sustainable way: Hardeep S Puri
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Addressing the gathering at World LPG Week 2022, he said that encouraging innovations in the LPG energy mix, efficiency, conservation, Bio LPG, Synthetic LPG etc would facilitate favourable shift/growth and also help in meeting the climate change goals.
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TERI Policy Brief launched at COP27 Calls for making oceans critical to Cl
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Sharm el-Sheikh [Egypt], November 16 (ANI/NewsVoir): Highlighting the growing consensus on oceans being critical to climate negotiations, a new policy brief from The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launched at an United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) official
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Joint work programme of UNFCCC Technology Mechanism launched at COP27
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In a statement, the UNEP said, the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) - the two bodies of the Technology Mechanism under the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement - launched their joint work programme to accelerate the deployment of transformative clim
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Low pressure area over Southeast Bay of Bengal likely to turn into depress
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A low-pressure area is forming over the Southeast Bay of Bengal and the adjoining Andaman Sea that is likely to turn into a depression by Wednesday morning, said the Indian Meteorological Department.
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IIA Honours Architects with lifetime achievement awards
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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], November 15 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) felicitated and presented lifetime achievement awards to four eminent architects from Karnataka on the valedictory of the two-day Southern Regional Conference of IIA, that concluded on Saturda
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India Pavilion hosted a side event on "Transformative Green Education: Exp
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New Delhi [India], November 15 (ANI/NewsVoir): At the 27th Session of Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the India Pavilion hosted a side event on "Transformative Green Education: Experiences from India" between 06:30 - 07:30 PM IST (03:00-04:00 PM EET).
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Two-day G20 Summit begins today in Bali
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The two-day summit starting Tuesday is themed "Recover Together, Recover Stronger" and focuses on global economic recovery, global health architecture, digital transformation, sustainable energy transition and climate change, among other topics.
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China lost USD 18 billion in 2021 due to extreme weather: UN report
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The report highlighted how climate change impacts are wreaking an ever-increasing human, financial and environmental toll, worsening food insecurity and poverty and holding back sustainable development. The report also painted a worrying scenario for future water stress.
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