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India pledges 1-billion-tonne emissions cut: A big forward step for climate action

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India pledges 1-billion-tonne emissions cut: A big forward step for climate action

This comprehensive package is much more than what was expected of India and marks a significant climate action commitment. (File/Reuters) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced ambitious plans to reduce India’s projected emissions by a billion tonne until 2030. Modi’s ‘Panchamrit’ policy announcement at the COP26 climate change meeting in Glasgow saw him accede … Read more

Green development: Strategising mitigation of agricultural methane emissions

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Green development: Strategising mitigation of agricultural methane emissions

Representational image (Reuters) By Debesh Roy The challenge of green development should encourage nations to make concerted efforts to achieve the goal of restricting GHG emissions to 1.5% above pre-industrial levels set by the Paris Agreement and also achieve SDGs by 2030.  For achieving the 1.5% goal, emissions must drop 7.6% per year till 2030. The … Read more