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India has doubled climate spending to 5.6% of GDP, says Finance Minister Sitharaman
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman The Finance Minister...
Environmental Concerns:SC refuses to pass any order related to Adani group’s proposed thermal power plant in UP
CJI Kant said the difficulty is that sometimes concerns are raised...
Carrier becomes latest global firm to sue govt over electronic waste rules
All of the companies0South Korea's Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics as well as Japan's Daikin and Tata's Voltas- are seeking to have the rules quashed. India is the third-biggest generator of electronic waste behind China and the U.S., but the government says...
Death toll from Texas floods reaches at least 43; dozens still missing
The administration has cut thousands of jobs from the National Weather Service's parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, leaving many weather offices understaffed, said former NOAA director Rick Spinrad. He said he did not know if those...
Navigating value shift: Indian businesses can unlock $9.82 trillion in economic activity by 2035, says PwC report
The PwC India’s report, ‘Navigating the value shift’, said mega trends such as climate change, demographic shifts and technological disruptions are creating new avenues for value creation that transcend traditional industry boundaries New Delhi: As the global economic...
India’s first weather derivative aims to protect farmers from weather volatility
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General, India Meteorological Department "On the real-time rainfall, they can find out whether it is as per the climatological trend or there is a deviation… Accordingly, there could be some decisions concerning agriculture as well as...
Drones clear Mount Everest’s trash-covered slopes
Climate change is only adding to the urgency to clean Everest. Snow and ice are melting, exposing decades-old garbage that can contaminate waterways fed by the runoff and that flow down to villages below Human waste, empty oxygen cylinders, kitchen leftovers and...
NCDEX in partnership with IMD to develop country’s first weather derivatives
This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on June 26, lays the critical groundwork for the launch of India's first weather derivatives -- a long-anticipated market instrument designed to help farmers and allied sectors hedge against climate-related risks such as...
India’s health survey data reveals 13% children born prematurely, 17% with low birth weight
Climate conditions, such as rainfall and temperature, were found to have a greater link with adverse birth outcomes. New Delhi: India's demographic health survey 2019-21 reveals that 13 per cent of children were born prematurely, and 17 per cent with a low weight at...
Sitharaman asks PSBs to develop credit models to fund Indian made small modular nuclear reactors
Lto R -M. Nagaraju,secretary,Department of Financial Services, Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs and Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary at a high-level meeting in New Delhi to review performance of PSBs Sitharaman...
Govt proposes new registration plate for hydrogen vehicles
According to a draft notification issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on Friday, in case of a hydrogen fuel operated commercial vehicle, the top half of number plate will be green and bottom half blue, while the figures on plate will be in yellow New...
Clean energy assets face climate risks, Zurich Insurance Says
Roughly 46% of Europe’s total renewable generation capacity will be at “critical risk” from the fallout of climate change unless owners do more to protect existing and planned assets, according to a report by Zurich Resilience Solutions, a unit of Zurich Insurance...