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  COP28: India moves up one spot to rank 7th in Climate Change Performance Index 2024

  World | December 09, 2023 11:05 IST

  India remained among the highest performers by maintaining a high ranking in Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and Energy Use categories. However, the CCPI 2024 report also noted that India's slightly positive trend in renewable energy share was advancing too slowly.

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  Why women are less responsible for greenhouse gas emissions than men

  Lifestyle | June 11, 2020 18:46 IST

  According to the researchers, while both men and women mostly travelled by car, there were distinct patterns of travel linked to gender. Fewer women regularly cycled (two per cent) compared to men (five per cent) but women travelled shorter distance

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  Climate change may double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater lakes: Study

  Science | November 19, 2019 13:50 IST

  The researchers said that changing the vegetation around freshwater areas could change the organic molecules that end up in the water. 

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  New technology removes CO2 from the air at any concentration level

  Science | October 28, 2019 16:01 IST

  The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US said that while most methods of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of gas required higher concentrations -- such as those found in the flue emissions from fossil fuel-based power plants -- the new method could suck out the gas even when it was present in very low concentrations.

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  Sydney declares climate emergency

  World | June 25, 2019 13:54 IST

  The Australian city of Sydney on Tuesday declared a climate emergency and called for a price on carbon to be reinstated, stressing that global warming poses a danger to its residents and to the whole country.

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  New study says that humans are responsible for record-breaking temperatures

  Lifestyle | August 11, 2017 18:30 IST

  The average surface temperature of Earth has gone up about 1.1 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century.

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  Climate change: India signs historic climate pact along with over 170 states at UN

  World | April 22, 2016 23:01 IST

  In a significant step bringing together developing and developed nations for beginning work on cutting down greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming, India today signed the historic Paris climate agreement here along with more than 170 nati

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  Aggressive climate pact needed to check rising emissions: Researchers

  World | December 04, 2015 10:48 IST

  London: The world needs an aggressive climate policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming to two degrees, says an analysis of the emission targets from 159 countries.Developing countries, including India,

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  US welcomes India's pledge to cut GHG emission

  India | October 05, 2015 22:09 IST

  New Delhi: The US today welcomed India's recent pledge to reduce its greenhouse emission intensity by upto 35 per cent and increasing its non-fossil electricity generation capacity and said the targets build on the already

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  Obama orders reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent

  World | March 20, 2015 8:35 IST

  Washington: President Barack Obama on Thursday signed an executive order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by the federal government by 40 percent over the next decade, a move made as part of his administration's