Climate change
Global warming needs to be urgently brought under control: Environment Minister
CHENNAI : Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate change Bhupender Yadav on International Day for Biological Diversity inaugurated the Biological Diversity Exhibition at Chennai Kalaivanar Arangam on Sunday. This was done to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity, that is celebrated on 22 May all over the world. May 22 is proclaimed as …
India is leading the world by example in Climate Action: Environment Minister at BRICS Meeting 2022
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, on Friday attended the BRICS high level meeting on Climate Change. Addressing the meeting, the minister highlighted the relevance of the forum to jointly address climate change, to explore approaches to accelerate low carbon and resilient transition and to achieve sustainable recovery and development. The …
Technology and Society: Technology Includes the Internet | Opinion
Most of the topics addressed in this column have focused on the Internet which is just one of many technologies. To begin, let’s be sure about what “technology” really is. According to Britannica, it is “the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the …
Disney Planet Possible: Young climate activist helps heal environment with 1K days of trash cleanups
PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) — As we celebrate Earth Month this April, a young climate activist is helping to raise awareness by making a positive impact on the environment, taking on a monumental task. Edgar McGregor, whose singular focus is to clean up Eaton Canyon in Pasadena, has been cleaning up trash others have left behind, …
'Magical thinking': Environment groups say Canada's new emissions plan will fall short of UN goals
A new United Nations climate change report warns emissions need to peak by 2025, and be slashed nearly in half by 2030 to keep global warming from reaching limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Environmental groups in Canada say the Liberals’ latest emissions plan will fall short of those goals. “Our pledge is weaker …
China Tempers Climate Change Efforts After Economic Officials Limit Scope
China’s top economic planners have put the brakes on attempts by environmental officials to reduce carbon emissions as driving growth takes priority over meeting climate targets for now, according to people familiar with the matter. Officials at China’s main economic planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, have limited the initial scope of a …
Germany’s move to EVs to affect thousands of workers, new study says
The underbody of an ID.3. electric vehicle being worked on at a Volkswagen facility in Dresden, Germany, on January 29, 2021. Matthias Rietschel | picture alliance | Getty Images The shift to electric vehicles could affect thousands of workers in Germany over the coming years, the Munich-based Ifo Institute said Thursday. The Ifo’s study, which …
Climate Change Tax Reform Goal To Not Favor Particular Technologies Gets Bipartisan Support
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) said today climate change tax reform needs to be … [+] technology neutral. So did the Ranking Minority Member, Mike Crapo (R-ID). Getty Images Climate change tax reform shouldn’t favor particular technologies, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Finance Committee asserted today. The mantras of no …
Technology sector’s environmental duty | Mirage News
ITU Many enterprises are turning to technology to increase efficiency and ‘green’ their own operations. But the ICT sector itself is currently one of the fastest growing greenhouse gas-emitting and energy-consuming sectors. What more can be done to reduce our own carbon footprint? Whether monitoring natural disasters or energy consumption or innovating the exciting new …
Jobs are make-or-break argument for Biden in climate plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is bringing out the billionaires, the CEOs and the union executives Friday to help sell President Joe Biden’s climate-friendly transformation of the U.S. economy at a virtual summit of world leaders. The closing day of the two-day summit on climate change is to feature Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg, …
