Climate justice a “moral obligation”: PM Modi urges fair tech access and finance for developing nations at BRICS Summit

July 8, 2025 12:11 AM

Climate justice a “moral obligation”: PM Modi urges fair tech access and finance for developing nations at BRICS Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday underscored India’s commitment to climate action and equitable health security, calling for urgent technology transfer and affordable financing for developing nations to bridge the gap between climate ambition and action. Addressing a session on 'Environment, COP-30 and Global Health' at the BRICS Summit in Brazil, PM Modi said he was glad that under Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s chairmanship, BRICS has prioritised key issues that ar...

EU plans to add carbon credits to new climate goal, document shows

June 29, 2025 9:28 AM

EU plans to add carbon credits to new climate goal, document shows

The European Commission is set to propose counting carbon credits bought from other countries towards the European Union's 2040 climate target, a Commission document seen by Reuters showed. The Commission is due to propose a legally binding EU climate target for 2040 on July 2. The EU executive had initially planned a 90% net emissions cut, against 1990 levels, but in recent months has sought to make this goal more flexible, in response to pushback from governments including Italy, Poland and ...

EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal

May 28, 2025 12:55 PM

EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal

The European Union is nearly on track to reach its main climate target for this decade, with countries' existing CO2-cutting plans set to bring the bloc within one percentage point of the goal, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The EU is on course to reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions by 54% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels - just shy of its legally-binding goal of a 55% cut, the Commission said in an analysis of existing policies in the EU and its member countries. The analysi...

GRAP-I restrictions revoked in Delhi-NCR as air quality improves

March 30, 2025 8:15 AM

GRAP-I restrictions revoked in Delhi-NCR as air quality improves

The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has revoked the Graded Response Action Plan - Stage I (GRAP-I) in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) with immediate effect after air quality improved in the city. The decision came after Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday clocked 153 as per the daily bulletin provided by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The CAQM said that the AQI of the national capital showed significant improvement due to strong surface winds and imp...

Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina

February 6, 2025 9:19 AM

Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina

Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a shift towards the cooling La Nina weather pattern, European Union scientists said on Thursday. January extended a run of extraordinary heat, in which 18 of the last 19 months saw an average global temperature of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin. That was despite the world shifting ...

World falling behind on environment, health and hunger goals, UN report says

June 17, 2024 1:53 PM

World falling behind on environment, health and hunger goals, UN report says

The world is way off track on most of the sustainable development targets agreed in 2015, such as tackling poverty and hunger, says a United Nations report which cites funding shortfalls, geopolitical tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.N.'s annual Sustainable Development Report ranks the performance of its 193 member states in implementing 17 wide-ranging "sustainable development goals" (SDGs), which also include improving access to education and health care, providing clean energy and p...