Kadvi Hawa trailer: Sanjay Mishra’s exceptional act will make you think about climate change—Watch Bollywood is house to many superstars and budding stars in the making. But it also has a reservoir of actors who are impeccable when it comes to their craft, and the very talented Sanjay Mishra is one such highly underrated actors in the Hindi film industry. ... Read More »
China Proposes Major Green Investment Amid U.S. Retreat From Climate Change In a sweeping foreign policy address on Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to invest in clean energy, build scientific coalitions, and support other countries’ efforts to adapt to climate change. Speaking in Beijing at the inaugural Belt and Road Forum, a gathering of 130 nations with which China ... Read More »
The Science Express, a mobile exhibition on climate change, has begun its journey through 20 states Railway minister Suresh Prabhu on Friday flagged off the 16-coach Science Express Climate Action Special train from Delhi’s Safdarjung station. The train is collaborative initiative between the Indian Railways and the department of science and technology. It is scheduled to cover 68 stations across ... Read More »
Climate change could threaten entire financial system, APRA warns Climate change could threaten the stability of the entire financial system, the prudential regulator has warned, as it prepares to apply climate change “stress tests” to the nation’s financial institutions. In its first major speech on climate change, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chastised companies for a lack of action on ... Read More »
Accepting the Reality of Climate Change Is Good for Business The climate cause has lost an ally in the White House, but the private sector has ensured that the clean technology revolution is here to stay Yes, climate change is an existential threat—one that keeps me up at night. But talking of fire and brimstone only inflames those who either ... Read More »
Bloomberg Says Cities Will Fight Climate Change, With or Without Trump Donald J. Trump has said climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese to get the United States to suppress its manufacturing sector. That prompted a public rebuttal last week from a Chinese official attending a climate summit meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump appeared to ... Read More »
Who pays the most for emissions from fuel use in India? India ratified the Paris Agreement, thus binding itself to its commitment to reduce the emissions intensity of GDP by 2030 to around one-third of its 2005 levels. While shifting to renewables would play an important role in this endeavour, taxing fossil fuels is also an important constituent of this ... Read More »
Energy Efficiency Is Key To Taking On Climate Change—Here Are The Numbers That Matter Energy efficiency isn’t as sexy as inventing new, cleaner forms of power. But, if you care about climate change, you really ought to care about it. Efficiency will need to account for a third of emissions reductions by 2040 if we’re stay within relatively safe global ... Read More »
U.N. chief tolls bell for climate change skeptics U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday that climate change scepticism is over, the day after the United States joined China to ratify the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions. Climate change skeptics dispute the widely held understanding that excessive levels of emissions in the atmosphere cause global warming and harm the ... Read More »
Climate change is making our summers more extreme Scientists have been able to more directly link extreme weather, like the floods that hit Central Europe last month, to climate change. A changed climate could also mean hotter summers – and with that, more deaths. Europe’s summer got off to a torrential start this year as severe flooding struck much of ... Read More »
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