Islamabad, Nov 11 (IANS) Pakistan formally joined the Paris Agreement on Climate Change by submitting its instrument of ratification at a ceremony at the UN headquarters, becoming the 104th country to ratify the landmark deal….
By Kushagra Dixit Marrakech, Nov 10 (IANS) Surprised by India’s initiatives in clean energy and coal dependency reduction, the international climate research organisations at COP22 here said that the country is set to “over-achieve” its…
By Kushagra Dixit Marrakech, Nov 9 (IANS) Students and youths from the United States protested against Donald Trump at the COP22 venue here, urging the world to pressurise the US President-elect to respect the Paris…
By Kushagra Dixit Marrakech, Nov 9 (IANS) As the way has been cleared for Republican Donald Trump to become the next US President, delegates attending the COP22 here are counting on the “moral obligation” of…
Marrakech, Nov 9 (IANS) British charity Christian Aid on Wednesday warned that any attempts by new US President Donald Trump to bury his head in the sand over climate change will harm American interests and…
By Rajendra Shende In December 2015, undeterred by the miserable failure of the Kyoto Protocol, world negotiators had come together once again to innovate in crafting a global start-up called the Paris Climate Agreement to…
Marrakech, Nov 9 (IANS) Water has been considered as a main climate change challenge for the first time at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP), international think tank World Water Council has said…
by Kushagra Dixit Marrakech, Nov 8 (IANS) Projecting a gloomy picture of the global climate change trends, the World Metrological Organisation (WMO) informed the COP22 that while the 2015 was the warmest year so far,…
Marrakesh (Morocco), Nov 7 (IANS) The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Patricia Espinosa, announced on Sunday that 100 parties formally joined the Paris Agreement on climate change. The…
Marrakesh, Nov 6 (IANS) Ahead of the UN climate summit in Marrakesh in Morocco, Britain-based charity Christian Aid on Sunday called for this to be ‘renewables COP’ where concrete progress can be made on delivering…
Rabat, Nov 6 (IANS) The world climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco, scheduled to open next Monday, will focus on the ways to implement the Paris Agreement after it entered into force on November 4, said…