The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Indian corporate sector has realised the dangers posed by climate change, and is slowly, but surely, amalgamating green technology with it score growth strategy Climate change has increasingly become central to the policy concerns of the government. Even the corporate sector is waking up to the threat posed by …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending $780 million to the country through a multi-tranche financing facility for energy efficiency projects that will help cater to the country
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending $780 million to Pakistan through a multi-tranche financing facility for priority energy efficiency projects that will secure the country's growing energy needs and reduce its reliance on costly, polluting fossil fuels, said Bayanjargal Byambasaikhan, energy specialist with ADB's Central and West Asia Department. …
Drying streams, lesser snowfall, and dengue fever cases in Thimphu, the March 26 rain and storm. All these are indication that climate change is happening here in Bhutan, said the deputy minister of national environment commission, Dasho Nado Rinchen. Introducing climate change to a half-filled hall on a symposium titled
Banks, pension funds and other investment groups representing more than $13 trillion in assets called for a strong global agreement on climate policy on Wednesday, saying it would lead to a flood of investment into the low-carbon economy. "Without the policies to encourage clean energy, investors are stuck at the …
BHUBANESWAR: With more and more investors queuing up for generation of power from non-conventional and renewable energy sources, Orissa, for the first time, is looking to supplement green energy by hooking to the grid. By 2011, the bio-mass-based power plants are likely to go on stream so as to be …
The world must devise a climate change treaty that will allow all countries to contribute to cutting emissions and not drive companies and jobs to other nations, the U.N.'s top climate official said on Thursday. Negotiations on a new global accord to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are set to conclude …
Lobbyist pressure will not weigh on a U.N. panel's decision whether to award carbon finance worth about 100 million euros ($144 million) to Chinese wind power projects, said the chair of the panel on Tuesday. "If you add it all up there are quite a number of projects, all from …
New Delhi: Approximately three months prior to the commencement of mega Copenhagen meet on climate change, India on Tuesday listed out its key expectations, including financial compensation for its afforestation initiatives, extention of clean development mechanism (CDM) and an international agreement on green technology transfer from the developed to developing …
With about three months to go for the Copenhagen meet on climate change, India on Tuesday listed its key expectations, including financial compensation for its afforestation initiatives, extension of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and an international agreement on green technology transfer from developed to developing countries.
It is only apt that Israel's Cabinet approved an important environmental decision on the day its parliament celebrated World Environment Day in June 2009
The estimates for additional investments needed in developing countries to tackle the mitigation challenge are far beyond the currently available resources. This will require mobilizing resources at considerable scale without delay to deliver finance, capacity and technology and maximizing their leverage on public and private investment flows to effectively catalyze …
Climate change may manifest significantly in Himachal Pradesh, with the impacts likely to adversely affect large percentage of the population depending on natural resources. A large scale shifting of forest biomes is being indicated. Himachal has to think of enough mitigation to avoid the unmanageable and enough adaptation to manage …
Despite the many calls to reform the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), its conceptual underpinnings are strong and it will most likely survive in the post-2012 climate regime. Some modifications may be considered in the short term to strengthen the effectiveness and transparency of the mechanism without modifying the Marrakech Accords. …
The post-Copenhagen world requires a fresh look at the big picture. In the absence of international agreements, what steps can be taken nationally, regionally and locally to reduce both carbon emissions and carbon concentrations? The former can be achieved through a transformation in energy production, saving and use, and the …
While developing countries face the most serious threats of any nations from the physical, economic and social impacts of climate change, there also exist enormous opportunities for these countries to adopt new technologies and sustainable development frameworks that will significantly reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The predominant view of …
