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Aug 03, 2023

IIT Goa, CUNY to Collaborate on Climate Data Collection, Research

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Goa, and the City University of New York (CUNY) initiated a partnership to share weather and climate data, an endeavour aimed at promoting climate change awareness and fostering scientific research. This project is funded by a grant from the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai.
The collaboration marks a strategic move towards understanding our changing climate better and taking steps to mitigate its adverse effects. The union of these two esteemed institutions could set a precedent for other universities worldwide to follow suit, leveraging data and research to combat climate change.
The initiative's first major implementation is the establishment of a weather monitoring station on the IIT-Goa campus, marking the beginning of seven such stations planned across Western India. These stations will serve as a treasure trove of data, collecting a wide range of information including regular weather metrics like temperature and humidity.
However, these stations will go beyond the norm, also tracking solar radiation, air quality, and soil moisture levels. This comprehensive data collection aims to offer a more detailed depiction of the climate than ordinary weather stations provide, thus facilitating a better understanding of climate change.

Jul 31, 2023

Indian, Japanese Scientists Discover 600-Million-Year-Old Ocean in Himalayas

High up in the Himalayas, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University, Japan, discovered droplets of water trapped in mineral deposits that were likely left behind from an ancient ocean which existed around 600 million years ago.
Analysis of the deposits, which had both calcium and magnesium carbonates, also allowed the team to provide a possible explanation for events that might have led to a major oxygenation event in Earth's history.

Jul 29, 2023

Maruti, Tata, HP, Coca-Cola and 35 other Firms to Launch 'RECEIC' a Global, Industry-led Coalition

The fourth and final meeting of the G20 Atmosphere & Native weather Sustainability Working Group (ECSWG) meeting took place in Chennai. Delegates from most G20 nations, nine guest nations and 12 World and regional organisations attended.
The old meetings of these working personnel were held in Bengaluru, Gandhinagar and Mumbai.
According to Richa Sharma, Additional Secretary of India's Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, the key focus areas of this group were land degradation, ecosystem restoration, biodiversity & water resources, sustainable & resilient ocean-based economy, resource efficiency & circular economy.
The previous meetings of this working group were held in Bengaluru, Gandhinagar and Mumbai.
A highlight of the ECSWG meeting was the launch of the Resource Efficiency Circular Economy Industry Coalition (RECEIC). The RECEIC has been formed with the objective to bring together nations, industries and experts in their endeavour to take forward the global circularity agenda. 39 firms from across industries are the founding members of this coalition.

Jul 27, 2023

IPCC: Scotish Professor to Lead Top Global Climate Body

The United Nations body responsible for assessing the latest climate change elected a Scottish academic as its new chair.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that Dundee-born Jim Skea was elected by 90 votes to 69 in a vote held at the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi.
Skea will hold office for the next five to seven years in which temperatures are expected to soon strike 1.5 Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels.
The Scot was a founding member of the UK Government's Committee on Climate Change and currently chairs Scotland's Just Transition Commission.
He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with a BSc in Mathematical Physics with first class Honours in 1975. He gained his PhD in Energy Research from Clare College, Cambridge in 1978.

Jul 25, 2023

PFC Becomes First Member from India to Join Asia Transition Finance Study Group

Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC) became the first Indian participant in the Asia Transition Finance Study Group (ATFSG), an initiative spearheaded by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to promote sustainable transition finance in Asian countries. By becoming a part of this initiative, PFC will not only contribute India's perspective but also collaborate on devising policy considerations to facilitate efficient energy transition financing.
This significant step was taken in the presence of Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy, R. K. Singh, and His Excellency Yasutoshi Nishimura, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Government of Japan during the Bilateral Ministerial Meeting held on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Goa. The collaboration is aimed at fostering cooperation among Asian countries to advance financing for Energy Transition and Net Zero objectives.
ATFSG was launched in October 2021, by private financial institutions, with the clear aim of presenting and disseminating the concept of Asian transition finance, building upon the principles outlined in the Asia Energy Transition Initiative (AETI). Japan's Asia Energy Transition Initiative (AETI) was launched to help countries in the Asia-Pacific region achieve net-zero emissions.

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