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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

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.