Five takeaways from the UN’s latest 3,000-page climate reportKeeping to the 1.5°C or even 2°C warming limit will be increasingly difficult without going into what scientists call "overshoot," or surpa...
05 Apr, 2022, 03.40 PM IST
Talks on new UN climate report going down to the wireThe latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN-backed science body, is meant to show the paths by which the world...
03 Apr, 2022, 06.11 PM IST
View: It is in India's vital interest to push for a global minimum price of carbonOn Monday, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report (AR-6, bit.ly/3xz8BNK). The report ...
10 Aug, 2021, 12.07 AM IST
Global warming must not exceed 1.5° CThe report released ahead of the UN General Assembly, the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rome and the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow will shape the c...
09 Aug, 2021, 11.31 PM IST
Five things to know about the new UN report on climate changeThe report's 200-plus authors looked at five scenarios and concluded that all will see the world cross the 1.5-degree threshold in the 2030...
09 Aug, 2021, 02.47 PM IST
India important actor in climate action, making fantastic efforts in renewable energy: UN chief"India is a very important actor and "fundamental partner" in international efforts on climate action," UN chief Antonio Guterres has said.
21 Sep, 2019, 11.59 AM IST
India gifts solar panels to UN, one each for 193 member statesThe solar panels, which are valued about a million dollars and gifted to all the UN member states in a symbolic gesture, are powered up to ...
13 Sep, 2019, 09.20 PM IST
UN rules out inquiry into allegations against Rajendra PachauriPachauri resigned from his position as Chair of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on February 24.
05 Mar, 2015, 02.11 PM IST
UN aware of allegations against RK Pachauri: Stephane DujarricUN Secretary-General's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the "allegations are being, from my understanding, thoroughly investigated by th...
05 Mar, 2015, 12.34 PM IST
UN climate panel looks ahead after RK Pachauri controversyThe UN panel on climate change has said it cannot ignore the sexual harassment allegations against its former chairman R K Pachauri but str...
28 Feb, 2015, 11.02 PM IST
Pachauri: IPCC future not tied to Paris climate dealThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading UN body for the assessment of climate change, will continue its work, no ...
30 Dec, 2014, 04.46 AM IST
'South Asia needs to unite on climate change'"The world has all kinds of drivers of stress and drivers of conflict. With the climate change, these are likely to get accentuated further...
02 Apr, 2014, 05.04 AM IST
- Climate change may lead India to war: UN report
The UN report indicates a possible armed conflict over fresh water resources in South Asia and China (Himalaya river basins) by middle of 2...
01 Apr, 2014, 03.26 AM IST
- UN panel on climate change presents gloomy picture for Asia in its fresh report
Both India and China will have to see "negative impacts on aggregate wheat yields", impacting overall food security in the continent, a UN ...
31 Mar, 2014, 10.19 AM IST
UN panel opens Stockholm meet on global warmingUN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opened a meeting on Monday in Stockholm that is scheduled to see the release of the most rec...
23 Sep, 2013, 04.27 PM IST
- Pachauri-led UN panel to face inquiry on climate report
Indian scientist R K Pachauri-led UN panel on climate change will face an independent international review after a series of allegations of...
27 Feb, 2010, 11.28 AM IST
- 'Global warming & natural disasters not wrongly linked'
IPCC has presented a robust defence of its claim that the world had "suffered rapidly rising costs due to extreme weather related events si...
27 Jan, 2010, 04.47 AM IST