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Nov 11, 2021

India Retains Top 10 Slot in Climate Performance Index

India has retained its top 10 spot in the best performing countries for the third year in a row in the global Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) released by Germanwatch on the side-lines of the COP26.
No country performed well enough in all index categories to achieve an overall very high rating in CCPI, the report noted. As a result, the top three places in the overall ranking remain empty once again.
Denmark placed 4th and is the highest ranked country in CCPI 2022. However, it does not perform well enough to achieve an overall very high rating. Thus India at the 10th slot is the seventh best performing country. India maintained its 10th position despite pandemic-hit operational difficulties which saw some regulatory flexibility to put the country's economy back on track.

Climate Change: Loss of Glaciers Will Hurt Tourism, Power Supplies

From the southern border of Germany to the highest peaks in Africa, glaciers around the world have served as moneymaking tourist attractions, natural climate records for scientists and beacons of beliefs for indigenous groups.
With many glaciers rapidly melting because of climate ch¬a¬n¬ge, the disappearance of the ice sheets is sure to deal a blow to countries and commu¬n¬ities that have relied on them for ge¬nerations — to make electrici¬ty, to draw visitors and to up¬h¬old ancient spiritual traditions.
The ice masses that formed over millennia from compac¬t¬ed snow have been melting since the time of the Industrial Revolution, a process that has accelerated in recent years.

Nov 03, 2021

More than 100 Countries Join Pact to Slash Planet-warming Methane Emissions

More than 100 countries joined a US- and EU-led effort to slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane 30 per cent by 2030 from 2020 levels, an initiative aimed at tackling one of the main causes of climate change.
Methane is the main greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. It has a higher heat-trapping potential than CO2 but breaks down in the atmosphere faster - meaning that cutting methane emissions can have a rapid impact in reining in global warming.
The Global Methane Pledge, launched at the COP26 summit in Glasgow after being announced in September, now covers countries representing nearly half of global methane emissions and 70 per cent of global GDP.
Among the new signatories was Brazil - one of the world's five biggest emitters of methane.
China, Russia and India, also top-five methane emitters, have not signed on to the pledge. Those countries were all included on a list identified as targets to join the pledge.

Nov 02, 2021

PM Modi Sets India's 2070 zero Carbon Emission Target at COP26 Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that India is the only country that is delivering in letter and spirit the commitments on tackling climate change under the Paris Agreement.
India will meet a target of net zero emissions by 2070, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the COP26 global climate summit.
The Prime Minister reiterated that developed nations must fulfill the promised $1 trillion as climate finance, saying this should be tracked the same way as climate mitigation.

Long-lost 'Island of Gold' Resurfaces in Indonesian River

The remnants of the long-lost "Island of Gold" — where tales describe man-eating snakes, fire-belching volcanoes and Hindi-speaking parrots — may have been found in the Musi River near Palembang, Indonesia. And of course, there is gold, oozing from the river bottom.
Divers probing the muddy river bottom have hauled up hundreds of figurines, temple bells, tools, mirrors, coins and ceramics. They have found golden sword hilts and gold-and-ruby rings, carved jars and wine jugs and flutes shaped like peacocks.
These treasures all point to one thing: Scientists have located the lost city of Srivijaya, once a wealthy and powerful port along the ocean trade route between East and West.

Nov 01, 2021

India Unveils Online Climate Dashboard

As world leaders prepared to gather for the UN climate change conference, COP26, in Glasgow in the UK, India launched an online dashboard - the 'Climate Equity Monitor' to assess equity in climate action, inequalities in emissions besides energy and resource consumption across the world.
The "Climate Equity Monitor" also tracks the climate policies of several countries from the perspective of developing countries.
It tracks the performance of "Annex-I Parties" comprising developed countries under the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) based on the principles of the Climate Convention, i.e. equity and the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities (CBDR-RC).

Oct 31, 2021

South Korea Inaugurates World's Largest Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Plant

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of South Korea held that the 'Shinincheon Bitdream Fuel Cell Power Plant' at the Shinincheon Bitdream headquarters of Korea Southern Power in Seo-gu, Incheon has been completed and inaugurated. The power plant is operated by South Korea's independent power production company, POSCO Energy and Doosan Fuel Cell. It has a capacity of 78 MW constructed in four stages from 2017. The project cost about 340 billion won ($292 million).
It is the world's largest fuel cell plant currently in operation.

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