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Thursday, December 18, 2025
TopicCarbon emissions

Topic: Carbon emissions

The secret origins of China’s 40-year plan to end carbon emissions

The drive for China’s 2060 target took shape inside Tsinghua University, where climate scientists quietly spent more than a year modelling different pathways to reach net zero.

What has climate change led to? Riots, uprising and tyranny

In ‘Fossil Free’, Sumant Sinha writes about the social and economic impacts of climate change, especially in oil-producing countries.

India will not be a hurdle to global climate goals even without net-zero emissions

India can’t aim for net-zero emissions but it can push more aggressively on renewables & seek help in sectors it can’t cut greenhouse gases, says TERI’s Spencer.

Why lockdown had little to no effect on global temperatures

The lockdown offered an invaluable test for our theories about how pollutants affect the climate.

How much worse can things get? That question itself may be a good sign

We are entering a new era of crises — in politics & biomedicine, with climate and energy, and about how we spend our time. But the truth is that progress is never going to be easy.

UK’s faltering Covid fight and a tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

World’s first shipment of blue ammonia fuel is on its way to Japan from Saudi Arabia

Japan aims to be a world-leader in the use of hydrogen, which is contained in ammonia, and has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions 26% by 2030 from 2013 levels.

Xi stuns the world by pledging China will become carbon neutral by 2060

The fact that China has set out net-zero pledge ahead of the US shows how hard it is striving to put itself at the center of global politics and the economic shift to clean energy.

Polar bears unlikely to survive till end of century with current rate of carbon emissions

A new study predicts when and where the Arctic sea’s warming will threaten the bears' survival.

An electric ferry could decarbonise the world’s shipping industry

Danish electric ferry Ellen has successfully completed 10 months of sea trials, with an energy efficiency rating of 85 per cent.

On Camera

What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.