The Climate Change Performance Index 2019
<p><img alt="" src="https://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/energy-20140725.jpg" style="width: 340px; height: 189px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />India ranks 11th in this year's CCPI,
Climate Change
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Global carbon budget 2018
<p>Global emissions in 2018 are projected to increase by more than 2% after three years of almost no growth, reaching 37.1 GtCO2, a new record high as per this latest report. In India, the carbon dioxide emissions in 2018 are likely to be 6.3 per cent more than in 2017, and is expected to touch 2.62 billion tones.</p>
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Greenhouse gas mitigation scenarios for major emitting countries – analysis of current climate policies and mitigation commitments: 2018 update
This report by NewClimate Institute, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) provides an overview of projected greenhouse gas
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Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions: 2018 report
In 2017, the warmest year on record of years without the occurrence of El Niño, and a year with normal global economic growth, the increase in global greenhouse gas emissions resumed at a rate of 1.3%
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COP24: Will achieve all our climate targets ahead of deadlines, India tells environment meet
India had, in 2015, as part of the international requirement ahead of the finalisation of the Paris Agreement, listed a series of specific actions it would take to fight climate change. n the first
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World 'way off course', UN warns at crunch climate summit
KATOWICE, POLAND: The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations warned on Monday as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to avert
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India to play constructive, balanced role in UN climate summit: Vardhan
KATOWICE: Indian Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said the high level of greenhouse gas emission was a major concern and reaffirmed that India would play a "positive, constructive and balanced
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Rich countries eroding confidence in the Paris Agreement: India and China
Along with other members of the LMDC group, they demand detailed rules on climate finance flows India, China and other countries in the Like-Minded Developing Country group put forth their priorities
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RMC predicts warmer winter in south Bengal
KOLKATA: Even as the mercury dropped to the season’s lowest in Kolkata on Monday, the IMD predicted a warmer winter across Gangetic Bengal. The minimum temperature could remain 0.7°C above the normal mark
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Global Climate Risk Index 2019
<p><img alt="" src="https://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/library/large/2018-10-01/0.21759200_1538374647_gettyimages-845085006-flood.jpg" style="width: 340px; height: 189px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />The
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Economic growth in mitigation scenarios: a blind spot in climate science
Climate change mitigation scenarios are important instruments for developing pathways towards a climate-friendly world. They form the basis for political and social negotiations regarding the climate protection