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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicClimate change

Topic: Climate change

Nepal secures $288M from ADB for climate resilience

The ADB funding aims to bolster green growth, and drinking water security.

India’s children are paying the price for climate change. Count them as citizens

Children are least responsible for the climate crisis, yet they suffer its most brutal effects. About 24 million children in India are impacted by climate-related emergencies every year.

What is Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement adopted at COP29 & why climate researchers are sceptical

Multiple attempts previously to both define and adopt it have failed. Yalchin Rafiyev, the lead negotiator of COP29 from Azerbaijan, called it a 'game-changing tool'.

Global carbon market ‘breakthrough’ can save $250 bn annually, says COP29 lead negotiator Rafiyev

He further says that negotiations have begun on an ambitious climate fund to developing countries; a new goal of $1 tn is this summit’s top agenda.

ADB approves $22 million to help Maldives’ tackle climate change

The ADB funding will bolster the nation's defenses against rising sea levels, and extreme weather and help bolster food security.

Climate change causing glaciers around Everest to melt, ADB says

Dozens have been displaced, and infrastructure destroyed in the Mount Everest region, local sherpas told ADB.

No star power at COP29. Heads of key countries plan to sit out climate summit

PM Modi as well as Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav are unlikely to attend COP29. Leaders from US, China, Japan & Brazil, too, plan to give it a miss.

US President-elect Donald Trump’s take on climate change: ‘Green scam, not our problem’

Trump’s return is likely to have consequences for global efforts to mitigate climate change & protect the environment. In his 1st term, he had pulled US out of the Paris accord.

How Trump win on eve of COP29 could impact US climate commitments, support for India’s green transition

Environmentalists say Trump’s victory will be ‘profound blow to global climate justice’, increase climate risk for world’s most vulnerable communities & impact clean energy deals.

On Camera

The K in K-Pop is already silent. And that’s OK

Audience data shows there are now more fans outside South Korea than at home. Like hip hop, there’s no reason why K-Pop can’t have a similarly inclusive trajectory while staying true to its core.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.