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Tuesday, November 25, 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

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.