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South Korean court hears children’s climate change case against government
The proceeding is Asia's first such climate-related litigation, the...
Extreme weather may pose risk to inflation, says RBI Bulletin
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Reliance Industries, other energy majors form hydrogen coalition
This alliance seeks to bring in best-in-class hydrogen technology, equipment and know-how to create a hydrogen supply chain in the country. By prioritizing national hydrogen demonstration projects, innovations to further reduce the cost of hydrogen will become prominent, locally.
Oil companies defeat New York City appeal over global warming
“Global warming presents a uniquely international problem of national concern,” Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan wrote for a three-judge panel. “It is therefore not well-suited to the application of state law.”
It rejected the city’s efforts to sue under state nuisance law for damages caused by the companies’ “admittedly legal” production and sale of fossil fuels, and said the city’s federal common law claims were displaced by the federal Clean Air Act.
U.S. envoy Kerry heads to India to try and lift ‘climate ambition’
India, whose per capita emissions are way lower than that of the United States, European countries and even China, is concerned that binding itself to such a target could constrain the energy needs of its people.
Kerry kicks off his trip on Thursday that will also take him to the United Arab Emirates and Bangladesh, which experts say is especially vulnerable to climate change as it has large numbers of people living in areas barely above sea level, and lacks infrastructure to protect them
Global nat cat insured losses at $ 89 billion in 2020, fifth-costliest year since 1970:Swiss Re
According to Swiss Re’s Sigma report, released on Tuesday, natural catastrophes in 2020 caused global economic losses of USD 190 billion of which the insurance industry covered USD 81 billion.
Green Climate Fund chief urges reopening of U.S. finance tap
Glemarec told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from his base in South Korea that the fund had allocated a record amount at its board meeting last week.
It approved $1.2 billion for 15 new climate projects – from a private equity fund for green energy and transport in India to help for farmers in Micronesia to keep their food crops safe from extreme weather and rising seas. The board also green-lighted projects aimed at reducing emissions from forests in the Republic of Congo and protecting Cuba’s coastal ecosystems.
Global warming is ‘fundamentally’ changing The structure of our World’s Oceans
Climate change has disrupted ocean mixing, a process that helps store away most of the world’s excess heat and a significant proportion of CO2.
Water on the surface is warmer – and therefore less dense – than the water below, a contrast that is intensified by climate change.
India will not extend 2022 deadline for tighter fuel efficiency rules for carmakers
The corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) requirements are designed to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles as India pushes auto manufacturers to invest in more fuel-efficient cars or in cleaner technologies like electric and hybrid.
Delhi has bent pollution curve, annual level of particulate matter on decline: Report
Delhi has implemented the most ambitious clean fuel policy that has also outlawed coal. But the airshed cannot clean up if coal combustion remains dominant in industrial clusters of the NCR, the report said.
Climate change set to drive more deadly heat in South Asia
If warming hits 2C, the number of South Asians exposed to unsafe temperatures could rise two-fold, and nearly three times as many people could face lethal heat, the study said. In a region home to a quarter of the world’s population that could have a big impact on the ability of workers to produce crops in breadbasket regions such as West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh in India and Punjab and Sindh in Pakistan, study authors said.
Climate change may hurt Indian manufacturing due to heat stress on workers: study
The researchers found that there is around two per cent drop of productivity for every one-degree rise in annual temperature. ”The greatest declines occurred in labour-intensive plants,” the study said.