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94 percent of Indian business decision-makers are concerned about negative
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 13(ANI/BusinessWire India): IBM and its subsidiary The Weather Company today unveiled a first-of-its-kind Climate Change Perceptions in India study that sheds light on how climate change relates to severe weather.
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Farmers suffering due to impact of climate change: Agriculture Minister
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 13 (ANI): Farmers are suffering due to unseasonal rains caused by climate change, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Thursday.
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94 pc of Indian business decision-makers concerned over negative impact of
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): Nearly 72 per cent of Indians believe that the local economy has been disrupted by a severe weather event in the past year, according to a new study by IBM and its subsidiary The Weather Company released on Thursday.
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Good, but not good enough: Solar energy growth in light of the Paris Agree
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Munich [Germany] Dec 12 (ANI/NewsVoir): From December 2-13, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, where global leaders are discussing their environmental agendas and specifying their nationally determined climate contributions.
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COP25: Support business efforts to tackle climate change, urges Guterres
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 12 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged business communities and civil society leaders to press governments into articulating policies that support private-sector efforts to address climate change.
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Brazilian President calls Greta Thunberg a 'brat'
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Brasilia [Brazil], Dec 11 (ANI): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has called Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg a "pirralha," -- a derogatory Portuguese word meaning brat -- after the latter denounced the killing of indigenous Brazilian people in the Amazon.
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Greta Thunberg, 16, named Time's Person of the Year
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Dec 11 (ANI): Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg was named Time Magazine's person of the year 2019 on Wednesday, becoming the youngest person ever to be the recipient of the title.
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Infosys presented UN Global Climate Action Award at COP 25
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Dec 11 (ANI): Digital services major Infosys is the first Indian corporate to have been presented the prestigious United Nations Global Climate Action Award in the 'climate neutral now' category at UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) held at Madrid in Spain.
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Qatar Investment Authority to invest Rs 3,200 crore in Adani Electricity M
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Dec 11 (ANI): Adani Transmission Ltd (ATL), Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd (AEML) and a subsidiary of Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) have signed definitive agreements for the sale of a 25.1 per cent stake in AEML to QIA and for a shareholder subordinated debt inv
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India reduced emission intensity of GDP by 21 pc: Prakash Javadekar
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Madrid [Spain], Dec 10 (ANI): India has reduced the emissions intensity of its GDP (emissions per unit of GDP) by 21 per cent and is on the track to achieve the goal of 35 per cent emissions reduction as promised in the Paris summit in 2015, Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Chang
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India, Denmark to hold meeting to chalk out action plan against climate ch
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New Delhi [India], Dec 10 : India and Denmark will hold a joint working group meeting in New Delhi to chalk out mutually beneficial programs over the next two years as part of their efforts towards climate change, Union Minister for Environment and Forest Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday
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'Green Good Deeds' initiative to promote environmental awareness: Environm
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 9 (ANI): Minister of State, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Babul Supriyo in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on Monday said that his ministry coordinates a central sector scheme namely 'Environment Education, Awareness and Training' wit
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