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India plans to set up 500 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030By : Sustainability ..., Jun 26, 2019
India would have installed 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022, says secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. India plans to set up 500 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy... Read more.. Subject Tags: climate change adaptation , climate commitment , IRENA , NDA , Renewable Energy , renewable energy capacity addition |
National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj launches initiative to help Rural Poor Farm Holds adapt to Climate ChangeBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 12, 2019
National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), for the first time in India, has launched an initiative to improve the adaptive capacity of the rural poor engaged in farm-... Read more.. |
Progress on energy technologies fails to keep pace with long-term goals for clean energy transitionsBy : Sustainability ..., May 29, 2019
The International Energy Agency’s latest and most comprehensive assessment of clean energy transitions finds that the vast majority of technologies and sectors are failing to keep pace with long... Read more.. |
Kochi in ‘Cities4Forests’ projectBy : Sustainability ..., May 20, 2019
Kochi has been selected for the Cities4Forests project initiated by a consortium of international agencies like World Resource Institute (WRI), Pilot Projects and REVOLVE with the involvement of... Read more.. Subject Tags: air pollution , Climate Change , climate change adaptation , disaster risk reduction , finance , Forest , World Resources Institute (WRI) |
Even as Cyclone Fani Hit Campaigns, Climate Change Yet to Find Space in India’s Political DiscourseBy : Sustainability ..., May 6, 2019
As the British Parliament declared a climate and environment emergency this week after a spirited campaign, mainly by civil society groups and students across Europe and America, cyclone Fani... Read more.. Subject Tags: Carbon Emissions , Climate Change , climate change adaptation , droughts , floods , global warming , Paris Climate Agreement |
Nearly 50 per cent of India currently facing droughtBy : Sustainability ..., Mar 1, 2019
Nearly 50 per cent of the country is currently facing drought with at least 16 per cent falling in the "exceptional" or "extreme" category, according to IIT Gandhinagar scientists managing India... Read more.. Subject Tags: Climate Change , climate change adaptation , Drought , farmers , India , Natural Resource Management , Resource Conservation |
Developing nations need to invest 4.5% of GDP in infrastructure to achieve SDGsBy : Sustainability ..., Feb 21, 2019
A new World Bank report finds that investments of 4.5% of GDP will allow developing countries to achieve their infrastructure-related Sustainable Development Goals and stay on track to limit... Read more.. |
1% budget allocation of each government department to climate change adaptationBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 25, 2016
In a major decision to deal with climate change which is threatening to assume worrying proportions, the Uttarakhand government has decided to deploy one percent of the total budget of each of... Read more.. |