Is India spending enough to tackle the inevitable effects of climate change?

India has spent $19 billion on average against the required $170 billion every year to fund climate action.

Mayank Aggarwal

· Oct 07, 2020 · 07:30 pm

India’s agriculture sector has survived the pandemic. But will it survive climate change?

The Reserve Bank of India recently acknowledged the looming danger in its annual report.

Prathamesh Mulye, Qz.com

· Sep 14, 2020 · 07:30 pm

Carbon emissions for 2020 may fall by 8% due to coronavirus lockdown, says environment ministry

A joint secretary in the ministry said that while the pandemic had posed various challenges, it had also provided a chance to focus on climate change.

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· Aug 27, 2020 · 07:51 pm

Record melt of Greenland ice sheet in 2019 as half-a-trillion tonnes of ice lost

The trend is alarming as the ice sheet is the biggest contributor to rising sea levels.

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· Aug 21, 2020 · 03:17 pm

Climate change is threatening the livelihoods of women seaweed harvesters in Tamil Nadu

Rising sea levels, hotter temperatures and stronger currents have reduced the quantity of seaweed.

Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Aug 05, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Could the campaign that made Swedes give up flying take off globally after the coronavirus crisis?

The 2018 movement reduced international flights at Swedish airports by 4% within a year.

Avit K Bhowmik, The Conversation

· Jul 30, 2020 · 11:30 pm

India’s two cyclones, locust outbreak, marine heatwaves – and their climate change link

India must develop early warning systems and an ocean monitoring system to tackle these challenges.

Roxy Mathew Koll

· Jun 17, 2020 · 11:30 am

Eight-year-old climate activist rejects Modi’s Women’s Day honour, asks him to listen to her voice

Licypriya Kangujam, who hails from Manipur, has addressed world leaders on climate change.

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· Mar 07, 2020 · 03:49 pm

Past decade was hottest on record, extreme weather events will continue, warns UN agency

The World Meteorological Organization confirmed that 2019 was the second-hottest year on record.

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· Jan 16, 2020 · 01:01 pm

The last decade was India’s hottest on record, 2019 was seventh warmest year: IMD

Extreme weather events, such as avalanches, floods, heat wave and thunderstorms, killed about 1,630 persons in 2019.

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· Jan 08, 2020 · 01:59 pm

UN climate talks fail to reach consensus on stronger targets, secretary general ‘disappointed’

Countries will now pledge new targets next year only, and the issue of carbon markets remains unresolved.

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· Dec 16, 2019 · 07:38 pm

‘No threat of Mumbai getting submerged, trust Indian scientists’ data’: Union minister Harsh Vardhan

A research published in an international journal had said in October that large portions of Mumbai are at the risk of going under water by 2050.

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· Dec 03, 2019 · 08:32 pm