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Climate change may cause 26% habitat loss for snow trout in Himalayan rivers: Study

Sep 9, 2020 | , , ,

The study says mountain systems across the globe are conspicuously sensitive to on-going climate alterations and the condition is much more detrimental in the Himalaya, where the rate of warming, and thus the glacier meltdown, is much higher than elsewhere.
The study reiterates that if the countries across the globe continue their greenhouse emissions as usual (mentioning it as the ‘business-as-usual scenario’), “the species (snow trout) would lose a net habitat of 16.29% till the year 2050 which would further increase to 26.56% in the year 2070.”

“As it stands, the snow trout faces serious threats due to river valley modifications, destructive fishing practices and exotic salmonid introductions,” it says.

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‘Biden’s climate plan will give free pass to worst polluters like China, Russia, India’

Sep 9, 2020 | , ,

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed China, India and other countries for allegedly not doing enough for the climate.

He has also blamed India and China for his decision in 2017 to withdraw from the historic Paris climate accord, saying the agreement was unfair as it would have made the US pay for nations which benefited the most from the deal.

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Indian Oil gets USTDA support in its green tech endeavour

Sep 9, 2020 | , , , ,

The US Trade and Development Agency’s (USTDA) funding will support state-owned IOC’s evaluation of technologies to capture and utilise carbon dioxide produced during refinery operations, presenting a novel and cost-effective environmental strategy that can be expanded to other refineries in India, according to a statement on Wednesday.

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UN chief urges Japan, others to meet goals on climate change

Sep 3, 2020 | , , ,

Clean energy delivers more jobs, cleaner air, better health and stronger economic growth,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

It makes no sense economically to burn money on coal plants that will soon become stranded assets,” he added. There is simply no rational case for coal power in any investment plan.”

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Germany’s Merkel says world needs to do more to combat climate change

Sep 1, 2020 | , , ,

The European Commission will next month propose a new 2030 climate target for a 50% or 55% emissions reduction against 1990 levels, compared with an existing goal for a 40%.
Germany is Europe’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, and the country’s environment ministry said last week that, while it can meet its climate target for 2020, it would have missed the goal if the economic havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic had not caused a large drop in emissions.

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Climate change bigger economic risk than Pandemic, ECB’s Schnabel says

Aug 31, 2020 | , , , , , ,

With climate change posing an even bigger risk, the ECB must keep this issue high on its agenda as it reviews its policy framework, Schnabel told Reuters in an interview.

“Climate change is probably the biggest challenge we are facing, much bigger than the pandemic,” Schnabel said.

“Even though this health shock was entirely unrelated to monetary policy, it nevertheless has huge implications for monetary policy,” she said. “The same is true for climate change and this is why central banks cannot ignore it.”

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Climate change to drive large future Cat losses

Aug 29, 2020 | , , , , , ,

It’s a mess at least partially of our own making, said Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Institute at the University of South Carolina.

“We are seeing an increase of intensity of these phenomena because we as a society are fundamentally changing the Earth and at the same time we are moving to locations that are more hazardous,” Cutter said Wednesday.

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