Covid pandemic significantly impacted climate change efforts: WHO
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Covid-19 pandemic has slowed down climate change efforts by various countries, according to the 2021 WHO health and climate change global...
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Glasgow summit consigning coal to history
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Glasgow, Nov 5 (IANS) Coal is being consigned to history on Thursday at the UN climate change summit (COP26), as countries, banks, and organisations move away...
Tens of thousands expected in Glasgow on Saturday as climate protests go global
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Glasgow, Nov 5 (IANS) Over 200 simultaneous events are set to take place as part of a ‘Global Day of Action for Climate Justice’ this Saturday...
COP26: Roadmap to avert cooling-generated climate crisis
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Glasgow, Nov 5 (IANS) A team of experts comprising researchers from the World Bank Group and University of Birmingham has developed a roadmap to drive the...
Nations fail to address climate literacy to combat crisis
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Glasgow, Nov 5 (IANS) With COP26 in full swing, now is the critical time for countries to commit to and prioritize formal climate education as a...
PM Modi’s ambitious dream of GGI-OSOWOG launched at COP26
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Glasgow, Nov 2 (IANS) India’s ambitious programme the Green Grids Initiative (GGI) as part of the One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) combining a massive...
Net zero emissions by 2070, India’s strong pledge : Climate advocates
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New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the global climate talks in Glasgow announced net zero by 2070 for India. This makes India...
India, UK launch biggest-ever coalition for clean energy
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Glasgow, Nov 2 (IANS) A new high-level coalition for clean energy was announced on Tuesday by India and the UK at the United Nations Climate Change...
Modi thanks Ukraine President for O2 supply during Covid wave
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Glasgow, Nov 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday thanked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for his humanitarian gesture of supply of oxygen concentrators to India...
India among 40 nations signing pledge for zero-emission solutions
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Glasgow, Nov 2 (IANS) Forty nations responsible for over 70 per cent of the world’s GDP, including the EU, the US, China, Morocco, India, Bangladesh and...
With IRIS, India to help island states fight disasters due to climate change
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Glasgow, Nov 2 India has been joined by the UK, Australia, Fiji, Jamaica, and Mauritius at the COP26 to launch the Infrastructure for Resilient Island...
Modi to address high-level COP26 segment on Monday
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New Delhi/Glasgow (UK), Nov 1 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the high-level ‘Action and Solidarity: The Critical Decade’ segment at the UN Conference of...
UN climate summit opens with aims of raising ambition
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Glasgow, Nov 1 (IANS) Following a series of reports and studies warning that urgent action is needed to keep the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global...
G20 agree to accept each others’ WHO certified vaccines
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New Delhi/Rome, Nov 1 (IANS) The Rome Declaration at the conclusion of the G20 Leaders’ Summit on Sunday has agreed to mutually accept Covid-19 vaccines that...
India pushes for climate equity at G20 Summit’s Rome Declaration: Goyal
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New Delhi/Rome, Nov 1 (IANS) A day ahead of the high-level segment at the COP26, India claimed that it pushed for introduction of “what actions need...
Modi meets Spanish counterpart on the side lines of G20
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New Delhi/Rome, Nov 1 (IANS) During a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit at Rome, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart...
India launches ‘Climate Equity Monitor’ on first day of COP26
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New Delhi/Glasgow (UK), Nov 01 (IANS) On the first day of the climate change conference, COP26, India launched an online dashboard – the ‘Climate Equity Monitor’...
Jaishankar, Blinken meet in Rome, discuss ‘Global Strategic Partnership’
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New York, Oct 31 (IANS) India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Rome to discuss broadening strategic cooperation...
Post-WHO approval of Covaxin, India can supply 5bn dosages to world: Modi
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New Delhi/Rome, Oct 31 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that once the World Health Organization (WHO) approves Covaxin, India’s indigenous vaccine against Covid-19, New Delhi...
India, Italy join hands on strategic partnership in Energy Transition
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New Delhi/Rome, Oct 31 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Mario Draghi on Saturday expressed their resolve to strengthen cooperation in the strategic...
‘COP26 should be for delivery of concrete actions on finance, technology transfer’
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New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) Days ahead of the COP26, India has yet again reiterated that efforts to avoid emissions during development process are tied to...