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February on course to break many global heat records
Zeke Hausfather,Berkeley Earth scientist, said the rise in recent...
Asia-Pacific off track on path to SDGs, UN data shows
Among the 17 SDGs, Goal 13 on climate action required most...
Despite shift, energy giants fall short of U.N. climate goals: study
No company was set to meet the United Nations-backed Paris Agreement’s long-term goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by reducing carbon emissions to net zero,
“Some (companies) might have made bigger statements so far than the others and the important thing is the direction of travel. But none of them are making net zero yet,” Bill Hartnett, stewardship director of ESG Investment at Aberdeen Standard Investments, a TPI member. told Reuters.
Plastic pandemic: COVID-19 trashed the recycling dream
Plastic, most of which does not decompose, is a significant driver of climate change.
The manufacture of four plastic bottles alone releases the equivalent greenhouse gas emissions of driving one mile in a car, according to the World Economic Forum, based on a study by the drinks industry. The United States burns six times more plastic than it recycles, according to research in April 2019 by Jan Dell, a chemical engineer and former vice chair of the U.S. Federal climate committee.
U.S. Supreme Court takes up energy companies’ appeal over climate damage lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by energy companies including BP PLC, Chevron Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell PLC contesting a lawsuit by the city of Baltimore seeking damages for the impact of global climate change.
Honda to quit F1 to focus on zero-emission technology
“This is not a result of the coronavirus pandemic but because of our longer-term carbon-free goal,” Chief Executive Takahiro Hachigo said.Like other automakers, Honda is rushing to build new-energy vehicles in an industry shift that Hachigo on Friday described as “once in a century”. That race is accelerating amid the coronavirus outbreak as carmakers review production plans to capture market share with new models including low or zero-emission vehicles.
IFRS Foundation Trustees consult on global approach to sustainability reporting
London: Amid heightened focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters, developments in sustainability reporting and increased calls for standardisation of such reporting, the The Trustees of the IFRS Foundation are now seeking stakeholder...
AXA XL in India to plant 30,000 trees and create a Biodiversity Park in Delhi
Delhi has a significant issue with air pollution and unsanitary water and this initiative will help to keep ecosystems healthy, creating a protected space where nature can thrive,” says Derek Nazareth, Head of Global Operations and Country Head, AXA XL in India.
A healthy biodiversity helps to breakdown and absorb pollution and provide resilience to climate change.
Additionally, a healthy biodiversity helps with the management of ground water levels, preventing flash flooding and enriches the quality of the soil.
Global leaders at UN meet: If virus does not kill us, climate change will
With Siberia seeing its warmest temperature on record this year and enormous chunks of ice caps in Greenland and Canada sliding into the sea, countries are acutely aware there’s no vaccine for global warming.
“We are already seeing a version of environmental Armageddon,” Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said, citing wildfires in the western US and noting that the Greenland ice chunk was larger than a number of island nations.
Tree cover in Gujarat shrank between 2006 and 2017: CAG
At the national level, the forest cover grew from 690.90 thousand sq km to 712.25 thousand sq km, while tree cover grew from 92.77 thousand sq km to 95.03 thousand sq km during the same period, it said.
The aggregate forest and tree cover of India rose from 783.67 thousand sq km in 2006 to 807.28 thousand sq km in 2017.
Bihar CM shares state’s sustainable development efforts at UN climate roundtable
Despite having one of the highest population density in the world, we are promoting food forestry to ensure food security along with enhanced green cover. We have allocated additional USD 3.5 billion from the state budget for this cause. Work is being executed in mission mode, he said.
This would significantly contribute to the global efforts to achieve the 1.5 degrees Celsius target, he said.
World’s youth rallies against climate change
“We need to treat the climate crisis as a crisis. It’s just as simple as that. The climate crisis has never once been treated as a crisis and unless we treat it as a crisis we won’t be able to, so-called, ‘solve’ it,” Swedish activist Greta Thunberg Thunberg told reporters.