-The Telegraph There are developing countries in top 20 emitters that are not responsible for warming that has already occurred New Delhi: Supported by other developing countries, India blocked an attempt by rich nations to focus on all top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide during discussions on the 'Mitigation Work Programme' at the ongoing UN climate summit in Egypt, sources said on Monday. During the first week of the climate talks, developed countries...
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PARIs Agreement requires phase down of all fossil fuels: India at COP27
-PTI/ The Hindu The negotiations at the U.N. climate summit last year (COP26) in Glasgow ended with an agreement on phasing down the unabated use of coal instead of phasing out As negotiators from 194 parties started working out a draft cover text at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt, India on Saturday said meeting the long-term goal of the PARIs Agreement requires "phase down of all fossil fuels", sources told PTI. "Natural...
More »‘3X more people displaced by disasters than war’- A warning at COP 27 -Swati Bhasin
-Hindustan Times At the crucial climate conference, world leaders aim to discuss climate finance and the PARIs Agreement. Three times more people are displaced by climate disasters than war, United Nations chief António Guterres said at the crucial COP27 conference in Egypt on Monday as the global body sounded “early warnings" for the world. With half of humanity living in danger zones, he underlined, "ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions are supercharging extreme weather...
More »Poorer India: Editorial on World Bank data on poverty line
-The Telegraph According to a recent estimate, about 80 per cent of the 70 million people who slipped below the poverty line worldwide during the pandemic were from India Poverty numbers can be confusing as they depend on the choice of the poverty line and the statistical method of estimation. These may result in differences in the results arrived at. The latest data from the World Bank show that for South Asia...
More »This govt mission is changing lives of 1.74 crore women through climate-resilient agriculture -Amarjeet Sinha
-ThePrint.in Three-fourths of the full-time workers on Indian farms are women because men move to cities. Yet, there was little attention to uplifting them and their finances. There was a time when women’s work in agriculture and animal husbandry was rarely counted. But according to the 2015-16 Agriculture Census, 11.72 per cent of the total operated area in the country was operated by female holders. Civil society assessments suggest that three-fourths of...
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