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Paris climate goals will cost emerging Asia $300 billion a year: ADB

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 27, 2016

Developing Asia will have to fork out $300 billion per year until 2050 if governments intend to uphold their 2015 Paris climate summit goals, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned in a new...

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India to ratify Paris Agreement on October 2: PM Narendra Modi

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 26, 2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Sunday that India would formally join the Paris Agreement...

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100 countries push to phase out potentially disastrous greenhouse gas

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 23, 2016

A loose coalition of more than 100 countries, including the US and European nations, is pushing for an early phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a powerful greenhouse gas that if left...

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Subject Tags: Climate Change , HFCs

Wealthy countries should help India to pursue a low-carbon development path: Report

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 23, 2016

India should be given a "generous support package" to pursue its ambitious developmental projects as it has done less harm to the climate than most of the countries despite having 18 per cent...

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31 more countries ratify Paris Agreement on climate change

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 22, 2016

The Paris Agreement on climate change moved closer to enter into force this year as 31 more countries on Wednesday joined it at a special event hosted by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban...

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New California law to curb climate pollutant emissions based on Scripps science

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 22, 2016

California Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown signed into law today new state restrictions on the emissions of so-called short-lived climate pollutants such as methane, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used...

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U.S expects India to ratify Paris treaty this year

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 16, 2016

The U.S is confident that India will be able to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change before the end of the year, according to a senior Obama administration official. The Obama...

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Govt plans to set up observatories to study impact of climate change

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 14, 2016

The Union environment ministry is planning to set up special observatories in various parts of the country as it struggles with insufficient data on the impact of climate change in different...

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Ban Ki-moon hopes India, other nations will ratify Paris Climate Change agreement

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 14, 2016

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed hope that India and other nations will soon ratify the Paris Climate Change agreement and achieve progress in ensuring the deal enters into force...

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Brazil ratifies Paris agreement to reduce greenhouse gases

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 14, 2016

The Brazilian government ratified its participation in the Paris agreement on climate change, a significant step by Latin America's largest emitter of greenhouse gases that could spur other...

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