Some attendees stand out at a climate meet for their reluctance to do almost anything. Here is a guide to the holdouts who arrive for COP 26 without significant plans to curb emissions.
A UNICEF report has placed India among 33 high-risk countries where environmental shocks like flooding and air pollution are causing adverse consequences for women and children.
Are we living through the ‘interesting times’ of the Chinese curse, with overlapping crises slowly coming to a head, in a way that is beyond existing systems & institutions to meaningfully tackle?
Artificial Intelligence can sustain the environment by helping reduce emissions & optimising use of natural resources, but it can have unintended consequences.
Perhaps instead of trying to make the climate subservient to the needs of expanding gross domestic product, we need to cut our economic coat according to our atmospheric cloth.
Record-high Arctic carbon emissions in 2019 have been eclipsed by this year’s summer fires, which have pushed the region’s emissions more than a third higher.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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