Europe’s environment agency (EEA) has warned that there would be systemic financial shocks from climate change with temperatures expected to rise by at least 3.C by 2050. In an interview to the Financial Times, Leena Ylä-Mononen said that this is a wake up call for the financial and the insurance industry. “It’s not that we […]Read More
MV Rubymar, ferrying over 21,000 metric tonnes of fertilizer from the UAE to Bulgaria, sank off Yemen on Saturday after a missile strike by Houthis. Read More
The 9th edition of the Raisina Dialogue opens in Delhi on Wednesday with Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Prime Minister of Greece, doing the inaugural honours with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Organised by the Observer Research Foundation and the Ministry of External Affairs, the annual flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics from February 21 to 23, is […]Read More
The world just experienced its hottest January on record, carrying forward the exceptional heat fuelled by climate change, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has said. The latest data surpassed the previous warmest January, which was in 2020. Since June last year, every month has been the world’s hottest on record, compared with […]Read More
Exactly eight years ago India teamed up with France to launch the International Solar Alliance (ISA) on the first day of the Paris meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP). This took the world by surprise, which till then believed that India naysaying could sabotage the crucial talks to battle climate change. Indeed, this was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a need for India to build its own narrative on climate change, says Dr Arvind Gupta, director of the Vivekananda International Foundation. Answering questions on Talking Point along with his colleague and Associate Fellow RK Hangzo, Gupta believes India needs to develop ideas and technologies rooted in its soil. Hangzo gave the […]Read More
COP 28 has opened in the UAE amid familiar alarm bells being rung about what little the world has done to combat climate change. In this edition of Talking Point, Dr Arvind Gupta, head of the Vivekananda International Foundation, and PK Hangzo, Associate Fellow, discuss the challenges for India to stay on the development track […]Read More
In little over a week from now, the world’s high table for battling climate change, Conference of Parties (COP), will converge in the United Arab Emirates. The COP28 meeting happens in extremely difficult circumstances. Not only is the global economy in doldrums, the world is beset with geopolitics and breakout of regional wars. At the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s main priority at the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as COP28, which begins November 30 at Expo City, Dubai, will be to hold developing nations to their financial pledges, believes Dr Dhanasree Jayaram, Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics & International Relations, Manipal […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s Ministry of External Affairs needs to have a very strong and focused approach towards climate change, believes former foreign secretary Shyam Saran. That is because “at the end of the day, these negotiations are intensely political negotiations… what is being done on the negotiating floor is an intensely political kind of game […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In less than seven years from now, 50% of India’s electricity capacity (500 GW) would be of the non-fossil fuel variety, Prime Minister Modi promised G20 energy ministers late last month, implying a mix of hydropower, solar, nuclear and hydrogen. The country, he added, was on track to meet its net zero emissions […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Three weeks ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth and final assessment report. It was a grim reminder to the world in general, and the topographically vulnerable regions, that the world was poised at the point of no return on climate change. If the world failed to collectively halve […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the apex global body monitoring climate set up under the aegis of the United Nations, submitted its sixth assessment report. The findings are a grim wake-up call to the world, especially for the developed countries—the largest polluters in per capita terms. The report maintains […]Read More
India is planning a massive expansion of green hydrogen production to curb its dependence on energy imports and wean the economy off fossil fuels. According to Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Puri who dubs green hydrogen as the “fuel of the future”, while the government will not shirk its responsibility of acquiring and providing […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Getting India to Net Zero is the title not of a Government of India policy document but a paper authored by the Asia Society Policy Institute, which was released at the India International Centre in Delhi on Friday. As the title suggests, it is all about nudging India to do more heavy lifting […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A mathematical model developed in India has proved helpful in gauging the likely impact of the Omicron variant of the Covid virus. Prof. Manindra Agrawal of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur, says the SUTRA (Susceptible Undetected Tested & Removed Approach) model will help not only with the Coronavirus but […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In two or three weeks from now, the world will have a better idea about the new Covid-19 strain that is reported to be spreading rapidly in South Africa and some other countries. Even in India, some cases have been detected but it’s too early to determine how deadly it could turn out. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Looking back on the recently concluded COP26 in Glasgow, former foreign secretary and climate change envoy Shyam Saran says two points clearly stand out: developing countries cannot rely on the developed world to deliver on the $100 billion of climate financing they had committed, to simply because their own economies are in trouble; […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Swati D’souza, Research Lead for Climate Action at the National Foundation for India and co-editor, ‘The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India’s Journey to a Clean Energy Future’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Swati D’souza discusses the significance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Panchamrit’ announcement—made […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The 26th UN climate conference (COP26) opens in the Scottish city of Glasgow tomorrow. The idea is to speed up action to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, even better that as the globe is heating up faster than expected. With heads of state/government of various countries attending, here’s a lowdown […]Read More
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