On the occasion of World Environment Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested the world to adopt an eco-friendly lifestyle. He further emphasized that everyone has to adapt to save the earth and every individual must try at their level. He further highlighted that Mahatma Gandhi also used to talk about a zero-carbon lifestyle and insisted on adopting it.
A new policy briefing by the World Health Organization highlighted that the climate change impacts are posing a serious threat to mental health globally. The WHO urged policymakers to include mental health support in their climate action targets.
On World Environment Day, the Indian prime minister launched the ‘ LiFE or Lifestyle for the Environment’ movement.
India has ranked lowest in Environmental Performance Index 2022, it is a report put up by the researchers of Yale and Columbia.
It is the 50th year of Environment Day. It started in 1972, in Stockholm at the United Nations on Human Environment, it was the first conference with the environment at its center. It was also the conference where the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) was conceived.
World has crossed another threshold of climate crisis. The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has crossed the limit of 420ppm (parts per million).
Developing asian countries have been criticised for not making a fast transition to renewable energy and burning coal and oil.
Scientists have long been looking for a substance or a bacteria that can decompose plastic as plastic waste is ubiquitous because it can not be disintegrated. Some scientists at the university of Leipzig have stumbled upon a kind of enzyme that decomposes PET (Polyethylene terephthalate).
Environmental campaigners are suing the Dutch airline KLM over “greenwashing” adverts they say misleadingly promote the sustainability of flying. Lawyers from ClientEarth are supporting Fossielvrij NL, a Netherlands-based campaign group, to bring a claim that KLM’s ad campaigns give a false impression of the sustainability of its flights and its plans to address its impact on the climate.
Researchers from International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) and Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) on Tuesday released its study 'Mapping India's Energy Policy 2022: Aligning support and revenues with net-zero future'. According to the study, fossil fuel subsidies by the Union government have fallen 742% since 2014 but the subsidies on coal, oil and gas increased by nine times in 2021-22.
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Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master, it was rightly said. Electronic devices have grown into an inevitable part of our daily lives.