India’s climate crisis is no longer a distant threat; it’s an urgent, daily reality. The staggering statistics on extreme weather events in 2024 ~ over 3,200 lives lost, millions of hectares of farmland ruined, and countless homes and livestock destroyed ~ paint a grim picture of a nation bearing the brunt of climate change.
Dr. Singh highlighted India's commitment to achieving a remarkable 500 GW of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030
The findings show that most of the respondents reported nearly similar interference of climate change and Covid-19 on their mental wellbeing. Their climate concern and Covid-19 concern scores were comparable.
Ecuador and Bolivia have adopted new constitutions by incorporating some of the principles of buen vivir. The 2008 Ecuadorian constitution is a major departure from the past. It grants nature the right to exist, persist, maintain, and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution. None of the 188 constitutions in the world confers as many rights on the indigenous community
The literary extravaganza will witness a spectacular range of language diversity in the programmes, displaying 21 Indian and 14 international languages, Sanjoy K Roy, its producer, told a press conference here.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has stated that, while the rising temperature in major cities is getting attention from concerned departments, the rise in overall anomalous average temperature mark has been largely ignored.
"All disciplines need to work together - not least a range of social sciences including political science, sociology, geography, and psychology - to find solutions in ways that achieve wider societal goals."
The world faces huge challenges in overcoming the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, food insecurity, the war in Ukraine, the accelerating climate crisis and biodiversity loss.
"Today, pollution and plastics are found at the bottom of our deepest oceans and the highest mountains and have made their way into our food chain," the WHO said on Monday in a press release titled "Health and the environment."
The collaboration was made possible thanks to the normalization agreement between Israel and the UAE, signed in September 2020, the Israeli ministry concluded.
