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World leaders are set to congregate in Baku, Azerbaijan, as it hosts the UN’s 29th climate summit, COP29 (Conference of the Parties), from November 11 to 22. The key agenda before the Baku climate summit is to increase the scale of climate finance for developing countries. It is also being referred to as the ‘climate…
Paris: The world is nowhere near ready for the “calamity” being caused by climate change and must urgently prepare for even worse in the future, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. Global efforts to adapt to climate change — from building defensive sea walls to planting drought-resistant crops — have not kept pace as…
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File picture of a volunteer pouring water to cool a man off during a hot day in Karachi, Pakistan. 2024 will be first year over 1.5 degree Celsius hotter than pre-industrial period | Photo Credit: AP This year is “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus…
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Paris, France: World leaders kick off UN climate talks next week, days after a knife edge US election that could send shockwaves through global efforts to limit dangerous warming. The stakes are high for the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan where nations must agree a new target to fund climate action across huge swathes of the…
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The mean temperature in October was recorded at 26.92 degrees Celsius. New Delhi: India experienced its warmest October since 1901 with mean temperature recording 1.23 degrees Celsius above normal, the weather office said on Friday. It predicted a warmer November, not indicating the upcoming winter. Addressing a press conference in Delhi, India Meteorological Department (IMD)…
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Japan’s Mount Fuji remained snow-less as of Monday — the latest date that its majestic slopes have been bare since records began 130 years ago, the weather agency said. The volcano’s snowcap begins forming on October 2 on average, and last year snow was first detected there on October 5. But because of warm weather,…
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Human-caused climate change worsened floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced millions in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan this year, according to a study published on Wednesday. The intense rainy season has unleashed a humanitarian crisis across large areas of the Sahel region bordering the Sahara desert. A new analysis by the…
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New Delhi: Climate change is a global challenge and it must be seen as a common issue for the entire planet to work together on, but it is increasingly caught in the web of whose responsibility it is – the developed world or the developing world, including the Global South. The other challenge being faced…
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New Delhi: Climate change is a global challenge and it must be seen as a common issue for the entire planet to work together on, but it is increasingly caught in the web of whose responsibility it is – the developed world or the developing world, including the Global South. The other challenge being faced…
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The protection of forests is a vital aspect of environmental conservation, said Chief Justice (File) Panaji: The effect of climate change can be seen everywhere and it is affecting the most marginalised sections of society, including fisherfolk and farmers, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said here on Saturday. Speaking at the release function of…