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India ranks 3rd globally for LEED green building certification in 2024
Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan, Managing Director – Southeast Asia...
Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina
"The fact that we're still seeing record temperatures outside of...
Over 27 million children at risk from devastating record-setting floods
UNICEF says that this year, floods have contributed to the increased spread of major killers of children, such as malnutrition, malaria, cholera and diarrhoea, and that the aftermath of floods is often more deadly for children than the extreme weather events that...
15,000 killed by hot weather in Europe in 2022: WHO
"This is the fastest-warming region, according to a report launched this week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Extreme temperatures accounted for more than 148 000 lives lost in the European Region in the previous 50 years. In just 1 year since, we lost...
Reeling from floods, Pakistan seeks climate compensation, debt relief
Pakistan and other climate-vulnerable countries are demanding that the U.N. climate talks this year in Egypt take steps to mobilize "loss and damage" funds for disaster-hit nations, and some say rich nations have a duty to pay these costs because their historical...
Climate finance a mirage; early warning systems key to saving lives, livelihoods: Bhupender Yadav at COP27
Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav India is making swift progress in respect of early warning for other hazards such as heat waves, the minister said, adding that the country has made concerted efforts towards making early warnings impact-based, easily...
COP27 begins a ‘new era to do things differently’, issue of “loss and damage” to be discussed
29 countries have now come forward with tightened national climate plans since COP26, five more since the publication of last week’s UNFCCC NDC Synthesis report, but still not a majority, said Simon Stiell, the new Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Convention...
TotalEnergies to take legal action after Greenpeace says it under-reports emissions
Greenpeace France earlier accused the oil giant of under-reporting emissions, sparking a debate about its seriousness in the fight against climate change days ahead of the next round of global climate talks. France’s TotalEnergies said on Thursday it would take legal...
Dutch govt to stop banks credit insurance for fossil fuel exports
Around 20 countries including Germany, the United States, Britain and Canada made similar commitments, but only a few including France have so far implemented them into policy The Dutch government on Thursday said it intends to stop giving companies and banks credit...
Climate change much deadlier than cancer in some places, UNDP data shows
The data shows that climate change could increase mortality rates in Faisalabad, Pakistan by near 67 deaths per 100,000 population – causing more fatalities than strokes, the country’s third leading cause of death In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, however, higher incomes could...
ESG will increasingly influence insurers’ strategies: Fitch
Large weather-related losses for property and casualty (P&C) insurers highlight increasing environmental physical risks many experts link to climate change. In response, we expect P&C (re)insurers to increase premium rates and, in some cases, pull back from...
Europe hotting up more than twice global average: WMO
In 2021, high impact weather and climate events led to hundreds of fatalities, directly affected more than half a million people and caused economic damages exceeding $50 billion. About 84 per cent of the events were floods or storms As the climate continues to...