On the 27th of September 2022 in Cairo, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the European Union (EU), the Embassy of Denmark, the Embassy of Switzerland and the African Climate Foundation signed a new $6.2 million project to support Egypt’s presidency of the 27th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh from 7–18 November this year.
On 28th September 2022, in Cairo, Egypt’s COP27 Presidency set out its vision for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, taking place in Egypt’s coastal city of Sharm El-Sheikh from November 7th to the 18th.
On the 21st of October 2022, members of the Egyptian COP27 Presidency Team and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held an all-day consultation with speakers from previous COP Presidencies in Cairo.
On the 24th of October 2022, the COP27 Presidency hosted in Cairo the Roundtable on discussing the draft report of “Independent High-level Expert Group on Scaling up Investment and Finance to Deliver on Climate Ambition and Development Goals”.
On the 2nd of September 2022, the ‘Cairo Climate Talks (CCT)’ convened the “Let’s Green Together” kids’ festival with the aim of educating children aged 10 to15 about climate change, from science to green habits.
According to academics from Budapest's Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary may endure severe droughts over the next several decades unless climate change mitigation measures are implemented.
On 28th April 2022, 100 European Union cities pledged to significantly decrease their emissions by 2030 as part of the European Commission's 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities scheme — and will receive support from the European Union to do so.
Every year by the time of November, Delhi-NCR starts gasping for fresh air. Pollution in the capital region has now reached extremely dangerous levels. Pollution also affects the health of school children, about which both the administration and the parents are worried.
The situation has become serious due to increasing pollution in the capital of the country. In many areas of Delhi today on November 1, the Air Quality Index (AQI) is above 400, while there is a dangerous situation in Narela where AQI has reached to 571 mark. Meanwhile, there is no hope of getting relief from pollution in Delhi-NCR yet. In fact, as the harvesting of paddy crops is high in November, the cases of stubble burning may increase, which is expected to increase the level of pollution in Delhi's air.
During his Gujarat visit, PM Modi inaugurated the Miyawaki forest near the Statue of Unity in Gujarat’s Ektanagar. This is a special type of forest that was discovered by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. Miyawaki forest in Kevadiya, Gujarat has been developed to reduce the impact of climate change and to increase tourism as a tourist destination. The forest has been developed on a site which was originally used as a 'dumping site'.
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