Special India-Scotland workshop in Glasgow on river conservation
At the workshop held under the aegis of cGanga, IIT Kanpur, the two countries shared their knowledge and technology that could help address the challenges for river conservation.
At the workshop held under the aegis of cGanga, IIT Kanpur, the two countries shared their knowledge and technology that could help address the challenges for river conservation.
Bhupender Yadav is the Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Environment, Forest, and Climate Change in the Government of India. He is the National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
This is India's second athletics medal at Birmingham 2022, following Tejaswin Shankar's bronze in the high jump on Wednesday.
While COP26 had managed to achieve significant procedural and institutional outcomes, it had fallen short of achieving substantive outcomes which could reflect the imperative of climate justice.
It is doubtful if “longer term net zero” pledges will be met since most countries have not yet implemented the short-term policies or the legislation that is required to do so.
But India is fourth in installed renewable energy capacity and non-fossil fuel energy has increased by 25 per cent over the past seven years and at present is 40 per cent of the total energy mix.
The G20 bloc, which includes India, Brazil, China, Germany and the United States of America, accounts for an estimated 80 per cent of global gas emissions.
Halting and reversing deforestation is "one of the most important things the world can do to limit catastrophic global warming,"
Earlier in the day PM Modi on Monday met his British counterpart Boris Johnson on the sidelines of the 26th session of the Conference of Parties (COP-26).
The stakes for the summit are high, not least the impact on livelihoods the world over and the stability of the global financial system.
