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Eleven EU countries push to keep nuclear out of renewable energy goals

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Energy ministers from eleven European Union countries, led by Austria, on Tuesday formed an alliance to push back attempts by France and others to count nuclear

Investments in renewable energies must quadruple to meet climate target -IRENA

BERLIN (Reuters) - Global investments in energy transition technologies must more than quadruple annually to stay in line with commitments made under the Paris climate accord, the International

Over 12,000 environment clearances granted to projects in 2022, a 20 times increase since 2018

Data presented in Lok Sabha also showed that time taken for forest, wildlife, coastal & environmental clearances had also come down thanks to govt's digital clearance platform PARIVESH.

EU court’s 1st climate case — A six-year legal battle between Swiss female pensioners & govt

One of the arguments in the case is that around 30% of heat-related deaths in Switzerland can be attributed to climate change in recent years.

EU countries poised to approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries' energy ministers are set to give final approval on Tuesday to the bloc's law to end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in 2035, after Germany

‘Climate lockdown’ anger drives Swiss grandmother to sue Bern at EU court

By Emma Farge GENEVA(Reuters) - Last summer while dozens of Swiss pensioners were campaigning in the Alps to save their fast-melting glaciers, 85-year-old Marie-Eve Volkoff was instead stuck inside

Stop insuring carbon projects ‘immediately’, NGOs tell CEOs

By Tom Sims and Simon Jessop FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - A group of climate activists has called on 30 insurance company CEOs to "immediately" stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects in the wake

Climate activists calls on CEOs to ‘immediately’ stop insuring new fossil fuel projects

Insure our Future in a letter stated that the insurance industry had failed to do enough to meet world's climate goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

‘De-jargonise to decarbonise’ — this Delhi film festival showed climate change goes beyond ‘fancy graphs’

National Institute of Urban Affairs says it received 150 entries from around the world & plans are afoot to take two-day film festival to four other Indian cities.

Mexico failed the totoaba, trade with it in protected species should be halted -CITES

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An international wildlife convention on Monday recommended that all commercial trade of species on its protected list with Mexico should be suspended, saying the country failed

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University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.