climate change

Tata Power-DDL Sensitizing Over 1 Million Consumers to Make ‘Earth Hour’ a Success

Tata Power Delhi Distribution (Tata Power-DDL), is sensitizing over 1 million consumers to join WWF’s global campaign for raising awareness on climate change issues – ‘Earth Hour’. ‘Earth Hour’ will be observed worldwide on Saturday, March 30, wherein people and institutions from across the world will switch off their electrical appliances and non-essential lighting for […]

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World Bank and AfDB Commit $ 47 billion For African Climate Finance

The World Bank and the African Development Bank have together committed close to $47 billion to African countries, for the period up to 2025 to fight climate change. In a significant announcement to provide much-needed financing for African countries likely to face the increasing effect of climate change, the funds’ pipe from the World Bank […]

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Viz-A-Viz with Glenn Pearce Oroz, Director of Policy and Programmes, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)

Govt Sends Clear, Attractive Signal to Invest in India Research clearly shows that businesses and private investment flow into countries that have clear, robust policy and regulatory environments with long term targets. By prioritizing energy access, the government is sending a clear, attractive signal to business to invest in the Indian market, believes Glenn Pearce […]

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EBRD Issues 600 Mn Euro Green Bonds

The proceeds of EBRD’s bonds are earmarked to support a specific portfolio of environmentally and socially sustainable projects. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has issued a five-year 600 million euro ($685 million) green bond, the bank said in a statement. This transaction represents EBRD’s inaugural benchmark Green Bond in the EUR market, […]

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Cabinet Gives Approval to India’s Approach for COP 24

The key focus of meeting was to finalize guidelines for implementation of Paris Agreement in post 2020 period. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its ex-post facto approval to the negotiating stand of India at the 24th Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change […]

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Parliamentary Panel Suggest Portal to Track Climate Change Targets

The move is to enable stakeholder to keep a track of progress and development in each specific sector including solar energy. To bring transparency to India’s climate change action plan, a parliamentary panel has asked the central government to launch a portal to display updated targets and achievements in the National Action Plan on Climate […]

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Cabinet Okays MoU among BRICS Nations on Environmental Coop

The Memorandum of Understanding is expected to bring in the latest technologies and best practices suited for bringing about better environment protection, better conservation, and better management of climate change and wildlife protection/conservation. The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its ex-post facto approval for Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed […]

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UN Summit Reckons Climate Change Talks Crucial

The stakeholders at the assembly in New York would be talking climate change scenario besides discussing how to tackle wars, poverty and deadly diseases around the world. With global climate advancing towards an adverse situation of rising temperatures and imbalanced weather circumstances, leaders at 2018 United Nations General Assembly, in wake of the closing deadline […]

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Action towards ‘Climate Change’ Can Add At least $26 Trillion to World Economy

The report released by the global body states that the society is significantly undermining the benefits of cleaner, climate-smart growth under climate change initiative. International initiative to examine economy and climate change, Global Commission on the Economy and Climate has asserted that a productive action towards addressing climate change can add USD 26 trillion to […]

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