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MASS media headlined more than 500 blazes in Canada, over a third of them in Quebec, burning last Thursday with images of the smoke billowing from the fires and obscuring the New York skyline and the Washington Monument in the United States for several days last week.

City governments are often more ambitious than their national counterparts in terms of GHG emission reduction goals. Yet the formal rules underpinning the international regime and guiding the climate action of nation-states are not incorporated by cities. The time to set the urban climate standard of diligence has come.

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Aligning with the global Beat Plastic Pollution campaign for World Environment Day, it is time to reflect on Indias efforts to ensure a better tomorrow for her citizens

The government opened up the commercial coal mining for private entities in 2020. So far, six tranches of auctions have been concluded successfully and 87 coal mines have been auctioned.

India has chosen a path of climate justice and aims to pursue a balanced growth model based on the principles of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities, Union coal secretary Amrit Lal Meena said.

The coal production will keep climbing up and hit a peak in 2040, after which it will plateau as the country will start relying more on renewable sources, said Union coal secretary Amrit Lal Meena

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that an idea becomes a mass movement when it moves from ”discussion tables to dinner tables” as he called for people’s participation...

The G-7 includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom. Net zero means achieving a balance between the greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere.

Meeting the global target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 will require developed nations to scale up their emission reduction efforts, India said at the G7 Ministers Meeting on Climate Energy and Environment in Japan's Sapporo on Saturday.