
Tamil Nadu government has launched the Tamil Nadu Mission on Sustainable Green Cover in Farm Lands Scheme, and the agriculture department has arranged for 3.43 lakh tree seedlings to be planted in Coimbatore

The global greenhouse gas concentrations reached a new record level in the year 2020, a report by the UN-backed World Meteorological Organization revealed. In an alarming revelation, the report stated that despite the lockdown restrictions due to the pandemic, the greenhouse emissions last year spiked quicker than the annual average level of the last decade.

According to the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report by UNESCO, climate education is still not being prioritised and sufficiently integrated into the education system and only 50 per cent of countries emphasise the subject in their national-level laws, policies or teaching plans. The GEM report is released while the biggest climate summit is continuing in Glasgow with major nations committing to several climate action goals towards achieving the net-zero target.

The images of Delhi’s Yamuna river filled with floating toxic foam are surfacing all over the internet and raising some serious concerns. These images are enough to shake the environmentalists not only in Delhi but around the world.

The much-awaited biggest climate conference dropped the curtains on 31st October 2021. The summit opened with the conference addressed by the COP President Alok Sharma,

A new report called ‘Code Red for a healthy future’ published by the Lancet states that India is one of the top five countries with the highest rate of heat wave exposure over the past five years.

India’s leading cinema giant, INOX Leisure Ltd. installed the nation’s first cinema with Ather fast-charging points for electric vehicles in Pune. The citizens can now charge their electric vehicles through the charging ports set up in the parking lot while enjoying the show.

India confirmed that Prime minister Narendra Modi is all set to attend the crucial COP 26 summit to be held in Glasgow from 31 October. The news came after the delegations from the US, UK and European Union recently visited Delhi to discuss India’s climate action goals.

A report published by the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society suggested that eating more plant-based food and less meat could boost life expectancy and reduce greenhouse gases by 17 per cent.

While addressing the UNGA’s General Debate of the Second Committee on ‘Crisis, Resilience and Recovery — Accelerating Progress towards the 2030 Agenda’, India highlighted that to achieve the target of Net-Zero emissions by 2050 the developed countries must do a ‘Net-Minus’.