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Drones clear Mount Everest’s trash-covered slopes
Climate change is only adding to the urgency to clean Everest. Snow...
NCDEX in partnership with IMD to develop country’s first weather derivatives
This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on June 26, lays the...
Takeaways from the Swiss women’s climate victory
This is the first time a regional human rights court has ruled that countries can violate human rights by failing to reduce their climate-warming emissions fast enough.The Court said it interpreted the European Convention on Human Rights language on a right to private...
IDF announces plans to facilitate investments in resilient infrastructure in emerging markets
Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman of BlackRock, said,``“BlackRock is delighted to partner with a group of our most strategic insurance investors to help advance their objective of building greater resilience against climate change and other natural disasters in...
March marks yet another record in global heat
"It's the long-term trend with exceptional records that has us very concerned," C3S Deputy Director Samantha Burgess told Reuters. "Seeing records like this - month in, month out - really shows us that our climate is changing, is changing rapidly," she added The world...
India likely to get normal monsoon this year, Skymet says
The weather forecaster expects "sufficiently good rains" in southern, western and north-western parts of the country. Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the north together make the farm bowl of north India New Delhi: India is expected to see a normal...
Experts hail SC ruling on climate change but warn against impacts of renewable energy projects
Manshi Asher, a researcher and an activist working on environment justice issues, said the judgment needs to be examined closely because it is being invoked to justify large-scale centralised solar production and transmission, which has a high material footprint...
Zurich Insurance to halt coverage of new fossil-fuel exposures
Zurich says its policy update is limited to new fossil-fuel projects, and that it will continue to underwrite existing ones. The company also says the measures are unlikely to have a significant impact on its bottom line Zurich Insurance Group AG will no longer...
Climate change poses challenges for monetary policy, says RBI report
Climate change directly impacts inflation through adverse weather events affecting agricultural production and global supply chains, climate change could impact the natural rate of interest, and the after-effects of climate change might weaken the transmission of...
SEC stays climate disclosure rule amid legal challenges
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s first-of-its-kind regulation on how companies share certain climate-related risks with investors had attracted multiple lawsuits. It aims to set standards for how companies communicate with investors about greenhouse gas...
Wheat price won’t be affected, vegetable needs to be watched out: RBI Governor on heatwave predictions
Shaktikanta Das,Governor,Reserve Bank of India The RBI Governor said that since wheat harvesting is almost over in the country, any heatwave condition won't impact wheat prices, but the prices of vegetable has to be watched out in wake of the temperatures...
India’s most innovative cities are running out of water
Tech professionals are leaving India’s IT hub of Bengaluru amid an intensifying drought that has gripped the city as it sweats through another torrid pre-monsoon season, the Deccan Herald reported this month. More than half of the wells the city depends on for...