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Developed countries pledged in 2009 to provide $100 billion a year in climate finance to poorer nations, and mobilising funds will be a key talking point in COP28 negotiations in Dubai at the end of November.
The declaration adopted by G20 leaders on the first day of the two-day summit in New Delhi did not mention cutting greenhouse emissions.
The second phase of CAFE norms came into effect from April this year. The regulation first came into force in India from April 1, 2017. It is aimed at lowering fuel consumption of vehicles by reducing their CO2 emissions, mandating the average corporate CO2 emission to be less than 130 gm/km by 2022, applicable to all petrol, diesel, LPG and CNG fuelled vehicles.
The focus of conventional piped systems on managing stormwater quantity rather than its remediation and re-use has exacerbated environmental degradation in urban areas.
One can make significant changes towards controlling and reducing one's personal greenhouse gas emissions by effective options like preserving water and so on.
The abundance of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record in 2020, with the annual rate of increase above the 2011-2020 average and that trend has continued in 2021.
Methane, the second-most abundant greenhouse gas from human-related activities after carbon dioxide, accounts for 20% of global emissions.
The sharp, but short, dip earlier this year represented only a blip in the build-up of climate-warming carbon dioxide, now at its highest level in 3 million years, says a UN report.
European elections show how climate crisis is brought from streets to the ballot boxes.
The rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to human activities increases the acidity of the ocean, according to the researchers.
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