India Takes A Stand On Biodiversity Act 2002
India has joined around 75 countries that are a part of the 30 by 30 High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People. The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature…
Not A Winning Combination: Winter Olympics 2022 And Extreme Smog
The city declared war on pollution in 2015 after winning the Olympic bid to mitigate the problem of pollution; the city built sprawling solar and wind farms, shifted heavy industries…
India Is On Track To Paris Accord And COP 26 Commitment: Bhupender Yadav
At the moment, the United States and the European Union will consume more than a quarter of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5-degree warming, but accounting for only 10% of…
John Kerry Soon To Visit India For Climate Talks
CAFMD was founded in September by New Delhi and Washington as part of a co-operation aimed at attracting investment and technology in renewable energy projects. Under the India-US climate and…
India’s First-Ever River Interlinking Project: A Threat To Tigers?
India’s first river interlinking project, the Ken-Betwa River linking project, has finally been granted clearance after nearly four decades of planning and conceptualisation. It will connect the rivers, Ken in…
Cheetah: All Set To Call India Its Home
The cheetah is ready to make a comeback in India after going extinct in 1952. The national government announced an action plan on Wednesday that will see 50 of these…
Beijing Sets A National Air Quality Standards In 2021
In 2015, Beijing promised to use the staging of the Winter Olympics in 2022 to bring the necessary improvements in the environment and host “green” games
Approval For The Phase-II Of Green Energy Corridor Granted
The project, called “Green Energy Corridor Phase-II”, will aim to lay down 10,750 circuit kilometres of transmission lines by 2026, Union minister Anurag Thakur explained to the reporters. The union…
Is Andaman And Nicobar Islands Heading Towards Disaster?
Back in 2020, PM Narendra Modi had declared that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands will be developed into a ‘maritime and startup hub. “The region will play an important role…
Global Corporations Preparing for a Low Carbon World
New Delhi, 7th December 2021: The extensive use and emission of energy in various forms have brought us to the concerns of climate change impacts. As climate change concerns take…
TULASI GOWDA: The ‘Barefoot Environmentalist’
Padma Shri Tulasi Gowda, the barefoot environmentalist known as ‘Encyclopedia of Forest’. Tulasi Gowda, a 72-year-old tribal woman from Karnataka, was conferred the Padma Shri award on Monday for her…
Earth’s troposphere is rising due to climate change
Earth’s atmosphere is rising because of climate change, a new study shows. Over the last 40 years, the troposphere has been expanding upward at a rate of roughly 164 feet…
Canadian woman becomes world’s first patient to be diagnosed with ‘climate change’
Hundreds of people have died in a heat wave that has broken Canadian heat records, including an all-time high of 49.6 degrees Celsius in Lytton, British Columbia, on June 29.…
How These American Start-ups Aim to Change the Way Food Is Delivered
Single-use plastics refer to plastic that is used once and then disposed of. These plastics are commonly used as food packaging for deliveries, resulting in tonnes of waste that is…
Climate change to impact vegetation in 7 Karnataka districts.
According to the Karnataka state action plan on climate change, climate change would affect around 38% of the state’s forest acreage by the 2030s. Climate change will also have an…