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'Pro Planet People': PM Modi Invokes 3Ps from COP26, Talks About Sustainable Lifestyle at Global Summit

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Energy requirements of the people of India are expected to double in the next 20 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday as he urged developed countries to fulfil their commitments on finance and technology transfer. Delivering the inaugural address at the 21st World Sustainable Development Summit 2022 on the theme ‘Towards a resilient planet: Ensuring a sustainable and …

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3 years, 1 month ago

COP26: How a dispute over coal nearly sank the Glasgow Climate Pact

India Today

It was very nearly a diplomatic disaster. Alok Sharma, the president of the U.N. climate conference in Scotland, had convened the final meeting of representatives from nearly 200 countries to deliver the Glasgow Climate Pact, a deal meant to ensure the world still has a chance to avert the worst impacts of global warming. China, India, and other developing nations …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Glasgow climate summit | Coal ‘phase-down’ is a right, says India Environment Minister

The Hindu

A day after the 26th United Nations Conference of Parties in Glasgow ended on Saturday, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, in a personal blog, dwelt on India’s last-minute intervention that played a key role in the final text of the agreement that called for coal to be “phased down” rather than “phased out”. The 26th United Nations Conference of Parties …

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3 years, 1 month ago

COP26: Why Is the World Silent on China’s Monopoly on Tibet’s Rivers?

The Quint

As COP26 wraps up, the world is again ignorant about the importance of Tibet's role in combating the global climate crisis. Noted environmentalist Michael Buckley stated in his book 'Meltdown in Tibet ', "We have only one Tibet. It may sound a little exhausting to reiterate that Tibet is the source of 10 major rivers and has the largest glacier …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Climate finance isn’t charity, says Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav at COP26

The Hindu

Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupendra Yadav says rich countries have “an obligation, responsibility, duty and a vow” to provide climate finance to developing nations and should deliver on an unfulfilled promise to raise $100 billion a year. “Because if there is any gap that remains it is in the action for climate finance.” Mr. Yadav heads the …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Climate finance isn’t charity, says Indian minister at COP26

Associated Press

GLASGOW, Scotland — India’s environment and climate minister says rich countries have “an obligation, responsibility, duty and a vow” to provide climate finance to developing nations and should deliver on an unfulfilled promise to raise $100 billion a year. A draft deal under negotiation noted “with regret” that rich nations had failed to meet their promise to provide $100 billion …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Kick the oil companies out of the United Nations' COP26.

Slate

This article is republished here as part of Slate’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. The first principle put forth in the Stockholm Declaration reads, “Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life, in an environment of a quality that permits a life of dignity and …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Cop26: Israeli minister says she could not access summit in wheelchair

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Israel’s energy minister has said she was left unable to take part in Monday’s proceedings …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Duke of Edinburgh would have been 'embarrassed' by Queen's 'deeply personal' speech at COP26 summit

Daily Mail

Prince Philip would have been 'embarrassed' by the Queen's 'deeply personal' speech praising his dedication to the environment representatives at the COP26 summit tonight, the late Duke's biographer has claimed. Addressing Government representatives at the reception for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, she recalled an academic gathering in 1969 in which Philip warned how 'critical' it …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Educationists, principals pitch for reforms in environmental education in schools ahead of COP26

India TV News

As countries gear up to participate in climate negotiations at UN conference in Glasgow, educationists and schools principals in India are calling for reforms in environmental education offered in schools across the country. School principals say the current education offered on environmental issues in schools does not go beyond slogans and poster making on particular days like "Earth Day" or …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Brazil pledges 50 percent emissions cut by 2030 in change of tone

Al Jazeera

Environmentalist says Brazil is attempting to rebuild goodwill amid global outrage about deforestation in the Amazon. Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 9.5 percent in 2020, according to a study released last week Deforestation, which hit a 12-year high in Brazil’s Amazon in 2020, is the biggest source of the country’s emissions. Brazil’s Environment Minister Joaquim Leite said on Monday the …

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3 years, 1 month ago

COP26: All you need to know about the climate change summit

Live Mint

Delayed by a year due to covid-19, the crucial international climate summit, the COP26, gets underway today at Glasgow, Scotland. Billed as a make-or-break summit, what’s at stake here is the global effort to halt climate change by formulating a pathway to halt planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. The politics of climate negotiations Many developed nations including the US, UK, the …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav interview | ‘We will discuss access to technology and finance at COP26’

The Hindu

Ahead of his departure to Glasgow, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav outlined India’s key concerns at the COP negotiations and said his ministry’s policy was to balance the challenges posed by infrastructure development in forests. We’ve working in a way to ensure development as well as giving importance to the rights of tribals as well as protecting the forest. On …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Net zero goals aren't the solution to climate change, says India ahead of COP-26

India Today

The solution to climate change is not setting net zero carbon emissions targets as dozens of nations have done, India’s environment minister said. Instead, rich countries need to acknowledge their “historic responsibility” for emissions and protect the interests of developing nations and those vulnerable to climate change, said the minister, Bhupender Yadav. India — the third largest emitter of greenhouse …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Q&A: How Gabon plans to lead the African negotiators at COP26

Al Jazeera

Lee White, minister of forests, oceans, environment and climate change, speaks to Al Jazeera about COP26, where Gabon chairs the African Group of Negotiators. David Quammen, a freelancer for National Geographic magazine, chronicled Fay’s journey in a series of articles and photographs, including a family of hippos wandering along a white sand beach in western Gabon. At the president’s behest, …

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3 years, 2 months ago

48 countries most vulnerable to climate change effects laid out demands for richer nations ahead of COP26

Firstpost

The group also called for governments to update their emissions goals at each annual climate summit, something rich countries currently only do every five years. A group comprising dozens of nations particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming have laid out their key demands ahead of the upcoming UN climate summit in Glasgow. Officials from the 48 countries that …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Religious leaders plead for rapid climate action at COP26

Al Jazeera

Dozens of prominent religious figures from around the globe meet at the Vatican to demand world leaders take immediate moves. “I call on all young people, regardless of their religion, to be ready to fight against any action that damages the environment or increases the climate crisis,” said Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. …

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'Pro Planet People': PM Modi Invokes 3Ps from COP26, Talks About Sustainable Lifestyle at Global Summit

COP26: How a dispute over coal nearly sank the Glasgow Climate Pact

Glasgow climate summit | Coal ‘phase-down’ is a right, says India Environment Minister

COP26: Why Is the World Silent on China’s Monopoly on Tibet’s Rivers?

Climate finance isn’t charity, says Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav at COP26

Climate finance isn’t charity, says Indian minister at COP26

Kick the oil companies out of the United Nations' COP26.

Cop26: Israeli minister says she could not access summit in wheelchair

Duke of Edinburgh would have been 'embarrassed' by Queen's 'deeply personal' speech at COP26 summit

Educationists, principals pitch for reforms in environmental education in schools ahead of COP26

Brazil pledges 50 percent emissions cut by 2030 in change of tone

COP26: All you need to know about the climate change summit

Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav interview | ‘We will discuss access to technology and finance at COP26’

Net zero goals aren't the solution to climate change, says India ahead of COP-26

Q&A: How Gabon plans to lead the African negotiators at COP26

48 countries most vulnerable to climate change effects laid out demands for richer nations ahead of COP26

Religious leaders plead for rapid climate action at COP26