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Helping India breathe betterBy : Sustainability ..., Oct 1, 2019
Pollution, a major contributor to climate change, is a growing concern in India as it is around the world. India faces one of the highest disease burdens from air pollution in the world with an estimated 100 per cent of the population living in areas with PM2.5 concentrations... Read more.. |
PM Modi announces $150 mn line of credit to group of Pacific island nationsBy : Sustainability ..., Sep 26, 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a $150 million line of credit to the group of Pacific island nations for undertaking solar, renewable energy and climate-related projects based on their requirement. Modi, who attended the India-Pacific Islands Developing States (... Read more.. |
Climate change efforts lacking: PMBy : Sustainability ..., Sep 25, 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today expressed dissatisfaction with the current global efforts to combat climate change and called a comprehensive approach covering everything from education to values and from lifestyle to developmental philosophy. “What we need is a global... Read more.. |
Industry to go low-carbon path to fight climate change: JavadekarBy : Sustainability ..., Sep 25, 2019
Indian Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that industry has undertaken to go on the low-carbon path to fight climate change but availability of affordable technology poses a problem. Javadekar said on Monday that the UN's Industry... Read more.. |
PM Modi launches Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure at UN Climate SummitBy : Sustainability ..., Sep 25, 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced a global Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 held in New York City. The partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks,... Read more.. Subject Tags: Climate Change , disaster management , Sustainable Development , UN climate action summit |
UN pushes big banks to fight climate changeBy : Sustainability ..., Sep 24, 2019
Only two of the world’s 10 biggest banks joined the coalition of 130 global financial firms in agreeing to align their business with international efforts to address climate change and other environmental issues. The group that signed on to the United Nations’ Principles for... Read more.. |
Climate Change May Cause Water Scarcity For India’s Power Plants: StudyBy : Sustainability ..., Sep 24, 2019
Climate change and over-tapped waterways may leave developing countries in Asia, such as India and China, without enough water to cool power plants in the near future, according to a study. The study, published in the journal Energy and Environment Science, found that... Read more.. |
PM Modi pledges to more than double India's non-fossil fuel target to 450 GWBy : Sustainability ..., Sep 24, 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gave a clarion call for a "global people's movement" to bring about a behavioral change to deal with climate change as he made a path-breaking pledge to more than double India's non-fossil fuel target to 450 gigawatts. In his... Read more.. |
Rainfed agency to make action plan for drought-prone districtsBy : Sustainability ..., Sep 23, 2019
The National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA) is working on developing a comprehensive drought-proofing action plan for 24 districts in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka this year, said NRAA CEO Ashok Dalwai. The NRAA will develop similar action plans for other districts... Read more.. |
Thanks to human intervention, Earth has lost wilderness area the size of India since 90sBy : Sustainability ..., Sep 20, 2019
Wilderness areas around the world have experienced catastrophic declines over the years, with three million square kilometres of global wilderness lost since the 1990s, according to a new study. Since the 1990s, our planet has lost nearly three million square kilometres of... Read more.. |