In a first, tourism is included in the action agenda of the UN Climate Change Conference with more than 50 governments endorsing the COP29 Declaration on Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism.
He was peaking at the inauguration of the four-day National Agriculture Summit & Farmers’ Fair-2024 at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Jammu.
The statement delivered at the High-Level Ministerial Dialogue Climate Change Adaptation, during the CoP29 to the UN Climate Change Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India is accelerating its goals for fighting climate change and sharing its initiatives with the Global South.
Amid record year for dengue infections globally, a new study has found that climate change is responsible for 19 per cent of rising dengue burden.
Kerala is once again in the news for an extreme weather event, as its Wayanad district reels from destruction wreaked by one of the most devastating landslides triggered by incessant monsoon rains.
The landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, is a stark reminder of the increasing vulnerability of our natural landscapes to the forces of climate change.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the Climate Change Bill, which seeks to set out a national response to climate change, including mitigation and adaptation actions.
I n the new geopolitical contestation and great power rivalry that has seen the United States and China pitched against each other in spreading their respective spheres of influence in various regions of the world, the smaller countries are exposed to their vulnerabilities when wooed either by strategic compulsions or economic doles.
Spurred by climate change and global trade, pathogens that cause plant diseases and crop-destroying pests are increasing and spreading far and wide.
