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India, Russia agree to intensify bilateral efforts for increased access to climate finance and technologies | India News

NEW DELHI: India and Russia on Friday agreed to intensify their bilateral efforts for implementing different climate actions under the global goals approved on multilateral forums such as the UN Convention on climate change and its Paris Agreement.The statement, issued after the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, noted…

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India, Russia agree to intensify bilateral efforts for increased access to climate finance and technologies | India News

NEW DELHI: India and Russia on Friday agreed to intensify their bilateral efforts for implementing different climate actions under the global goals approved on multilateral forums such as the UN Convention on climate change and its Paris Agreement.The statement, issued after the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, noted…

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COP30: India pitches for expanding joint crediting mechanism for global climate action | India News

NEW DELHI: Pitching for expanding a unique model where bilateral cooperation can reinforce multilateral objectives, India has called an existing ‘joint crediting mechanism’ a key tool for global climate action, and urged countries to join this cooperative approach to collectively reduce their carbon footprints.The benefit of the mechanism was flagged by Union environment minister Bhupender…

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Despite 2024 being warmest year on record, long-term global warming still below Paris pact threshold: WMO | India News

NEW DELHI: Year 2024 may be the warmest calendar year on record with a global mean near-surface temperature of 1.55 degrees celsius above the pre-industrial era (1850-1900 average), but the long-term warming (averaged over decades) remains below the Paris Agreement threshold of 1.5 degrees C, said the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in its final ‘State…

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1.5°C rise poses grave danger: WMO chief

NEW DELHI: World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) secretary-general Celeste Saulo on Tuesday said the global average temperature rise breaching the Paris Agreement threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius in 2024 doesn’t mean the global climate deal is dead.She, while referring to the average global temperature rise of 1.55 degrees Celsius in 2024 over the pre-industrial (1850-1900) period,…

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COP29, climate finance and its optical illusion

‘The sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has described finance, capacity-building and a transfer of technology as critical enablers of climate action in developing countries’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Finance has been a major point of climate change negotiation since the launching of the United Nations-led climate change negotiations in…

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