Trump to withdraw nomination of environmental pick Kathleen White
The Trump administration plans to withdraw its nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White, a climate change sceptic, to lead the Council on Environmental Quality, a White … Read more
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Global Climate Action Summit Leader Anand Mahindra Issues New Climate Challenge to Corporations
In an effort to spur further climate action at this year’s Global Climate Action Summit (Summit) in September and at the United Nations Climate Change … Read more
Climate Change May Cut Farm Income By 20-25%, Says Economic Survey
Climate change could adversely affect farmers income by up to 20-25 per cent in the medium term, the Economic Survey warned and suggested the need for “dramatic” improvement … Read more
Climate change and snowmelt -turn up the heat, but what about humidity?
It’s said on sticky summer days: “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” That holds true in the winter too, and could hold the key … Read more
United States could “conceivably” return to the Paris climate accord: Trump
President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the United States could “conceivably” return to the Paris climate accord, although he stopped short of signaling any … Read more
Maharashtra cabinet finally adopts a plan on climate change
Eight years after the Centre’s direction to formulate a state action plan on climate change, and seven years after awarding the contract for a comprehensive … Read more
2017 in Retrospect: Despite ‘Trump effect’, global climate change momentum gains
The Trump administration’s decision earlier this year to pull out of the historic 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, saying the Obama-era deal was an attempt to … Read more
Asia-Pacific Climate Week Calls for Scaling-up Climate Action
Bangkok, Thailand – Finance and sector ministers and high-level officials from more than 30 countries in Asia-Pacific joined private sector leaders to identify ways to scale … Read more