Climate Change

October 25, 2024 10:45 AM

Climate set to warm by 3.1 C without greater action, UN report warns

Current climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report on Thursday (October 24), more than twice the rise agreed to nearly a decade ago. The annual Emissions Gap report, which tak...

October 25, 2024 3:50 PM

Cyclone Dana: Flight operations at Bhubaneswar, Kolkata airports resume

Flight operations at Bhubaneswar's Biju Patnaik International Airport, which were suspended as a precautionary measure due to Cyclone Dana, resumed at 8 am on Friday. This came after the cyclone made landfall along the Odisha coast, according to airport authorities. Similarly, flight operations at ...

October 24, 2024 3:44 PM

EAM Jaishankar meets with heads of delegations at BRICS Summit Outreach

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar engaged with heads of delegations during the 16th BRICS Summit held at the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Center, participating in the Outreach/BRICS Plus session. Jaishankar, who accompanied Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the summit, shared glimpses of...

October 24, 2024 10:44 AM

Commonwealth nations to discuss slavery reparations, climate change

The leaders of the Commonwealth group of nations will meet at a welcome banquet in Samoa in the South Pacific on Thursday, with climate change and reparations for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade on the agenda of summit discussions. Leaders and officials from 56 countries with roots ...

October 23, 2024 8:51 PM

PM Modi departs for New Delhi after attending BRICS Summit in Kazan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has departed for Delhi following his participation in the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan. During the summit, PM Modi held bilateral meetings with key leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and Chinese President Xi Jinping. ...

October 22, 2024 4:01 PM

Climate scientists warn Nordic ministers of changing Atlantic Ocean current

More than 40 climate scientists are urging Nordic ministers to prevent global warming from causing a major change in an Atlantic Ocean current, which could trigger abrupt shifts in weather patterns and damage ecosystems. A collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of oce...

October 21, 2024 8:30 PM

World lags on 2030 nature goals headed into UN COP16 talks

The world in 2022 reached its most ambitious deal ever to halt the destruction of nature by decade's end. Two years later, countries are already behind on meeting their goals. As nearly 200 nations meet on Monday for a two-week U.N. biodiversity summit, COP16, in Cali, Colombia, they will be under...

October 21, 2024 10:07 AM

COP16 kicks off in Colombia with opening ceremony

The two-week COP16 biodiversity summit kicked off in Colombia on Sunday with an opening ceremony flanked by Colombian officials and representatives of indigenous peoples. During the summit, officials aim to halt the rapid destruction of nature which has reached unprecedented extremes globally in 20...