CLIMATE AGENDA

On climate, it's Biden's green revolution versus Trump's war on red tape

President Donald Trump, a Republican, has focused on tearing down former President Barack Obama's climate agenda to free the energy and aut...

Six Indian Americans named to Biden-Sanders Unity task forces

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy have been named co-chairs of the Health Care Task Force. The Unity Ta...

CAA protests: UP court grants bail to activist couple, 56 others

A court in Uttar Pradesh has granted bail to the activist parents of a 14-month-old baby and 56 others nearly two weeks after they were arr...

India a top geopolitical risk for 2020: US consultancy

In their most recent report, the Eurasia Group said PM Narendra Modi has spent "much of his second term promoting controversial social poli...

World losing trust in climate science, Indians most-trusting: WEF survey

Indians and Bangladeshis have topped the charts when it comes to trust in climate science as also for keeping themselves abreast about news...

Final decision at 25th round of climate negotiations to stress on urgency of climate action

Ahead of the ministerial level negotiations, Chile, in consultation with countries, has put together list of issues or elements that need t...

India boosts Track II agenda in SCO-BRICS

Dhwani Jain, head of the Indian youth delegation spoke about India’s rising power in the world and stressed on the role of youth, particula...

Modi at UNCCD COP14: Call for Global Water Action Agenda to address land degradation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at the inauguration of high-level segment meeting at the Conference of Parties (COP14) to United Nat...

Plum & Phy boss a big Bezos fan, has quotes by Amazon boss in his office

Shankar Prasad also talks about how beauty brands can be ethically sound.

RCEP could be on agenda of Modi-Xi meet in Brasilia

China is keen to include India in RCEP for its huge market opportunities and since India decided against joining at Bangkok, has been pushi...

India, Norway will work together in exerting pressure on countries for quick climate action: Prakash Javadekar

India and Norway signed the letter of intent for establishing the India Norway Marine Pollution Initiative in 2019 to combat ocean pollutio...

British High Commission launches 'Green is Great' campaign in run-up to COP26

The campaign is linked with climate, sustainability and business which lines up various planned activities.

India leads from front on counter-terrorism, climate action at UN in 2019

The year 2019 will be remembered as a watershed moment in India's fight against terrorism and its commitment to bring those responsible for...

GCCA launches India chapter to execute sustainability agenda of cement industry

GCCA India will assume the responsibilities of the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) India which formerly served as the sector’s susta...

Chile-Madrid round of UN sponsored climate talks entered into overtime on Saturday

​​Countries objected to the lack of ambition in the text as there were no effort to call on countries to step up their efforts to address c...

BASIC countries call on industrialised countries to fulfill their climate commitments

The four advanced developing countries have listed out the issues that need to be resolved at Madrid for the current round of talks being c...

India ranks 5th in Global Climate Risk Index

India is the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change, according to a report released by Environment think tank, Germanwatch. In the...