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Topic: COP26

Why new pledges at COP26 are key to avoiding climate catastrophe

If the 197 governments meeting in Glasgow deliver on everything they’ve announced, the planet will warm by 1.8°C, a large improvement over the 2.1°C forecast prior to the ongoing talks.

Centre clarifies India has not signed up for COP26 action agenda on sustainable agriculture

Clarification was issued by Union agriculture ministry, which said National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture is already operating in India to deal with climate change.

2030 targets announced at COP26 differ from real actions, researchers predict 2.4-degree-C rise

Report by independent research body Climate Action Tracker says countries need to do twice as much to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Developing nations propose ‘at least’ $1.3 trillion/year in climate finance, face resistance

Developed nations had made a commitment to deliver $100 bn in climate finance to developing nations every year, up to 2020, but never raised this amount.

Lack of serious approach to climate finance will jeopardise net zero pledges, India says

G77 and China, Like Minded Developing Countries, and BASIC nations say developed countries were 'not interested' in negotiating in good faith.

Black money celebrates 5th anniversary of its ‘elimination’, and PM Modi’s unshakeable devotion

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

Humans are compressing millions of years of natural change into just a few centuries

Past climates show us that recent changes across all aspects of the Earth system are unprecedented in at least thousands of years.

‘Our house is on fire’ in more ways than one. Climate change, Covid-19 ruining adolescents

There is no end in sight for crises. Adolescents have not been well served, according to the British Medical Journal.

COP26 is not just about India’s commitment to climate change. It’s also a message to the US

India’s headlining commitments on climate change came with another message that shouldn’t be skipped over.

China may be in trouble, Xi’s no-show in G20 hints. Time for India to be Asia’s new leader

Transit to net-zero emissions by 2070 calls for strong measures. Yet, all these commitments are not easy to fulfil.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.