State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
OPEC said oil was not to blame for climate change and consuming countries should pay to fight the threat, while the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell said drivers could help by not buying Hummer sports utility vehicles. "Oil is not responsible," the producer group's Secretary General, Abdullah al-Badri, told reporters on Thursday on the sidelines of the International Oil Summit in Paris.
Climate change may cost California tens of billions of dollars annually in coming years as sea levels rise and hot days cause people to turn up the air conditioning, a draft report from the state said on Wednesday.
Small island states have sharpened their calls for the rich to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, saying low-lying atolls risk being washed off the map by rising ocean levels.
World leaders at the G20 summit disappointed environmental groups on Thursday who said their commitment to fight climate change had been vague. The leaders reaffirmed a previous commitment to sign a U.N. climate deal this year, a step the U.N. climate-change chief said was useful, though action would be better.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday the United States would "lead by example" in combating climate change so that developing nations such as India and China would follow suit.
Shekhar Bhatia
REBECCA RASSENDREN BENGALURU After greening the roads with CNG vehicles, it is time to green the skies as well. Airlines across the globe are making efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even more so after the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) passed a regulation in February this year.
KARL RITTER STOCKHOLM Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday that the economic crisis must not draw attention from global warming going into crucial climate talks later this year.
COIMBATORE: Most of the rural and urban self-help groups (SHGs) without access to modern energy sources live in poverty. The lack of available energy services is closely related to poverty indicators, K. Sathia Jothi Kamaraj, President of the Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Development (NERD) Society, said here recently.