Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his UK counterpart Boris Johnson during their virtual summit
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Boris Johnson on Tuesday unveiled a Roadmap 2030 to elevate the India-UK ties to a comprehensive strategic level, and declared an enhanced trade partnership between the two countries to negotiate a balanced FTA, including an interim trade pact for delivering early gains.
During a virtual summit, Modi and Johnson held a wide-ranging discussion on important global, regional and bilateral issues, including cooperation in areas of defence, security and healthcare as also extradition of Indian fugitives Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi who are currently in the UK.
India, UK Unveil 10-Year Roadmap, Declare Enhanced Trade Partnership
During a virtual summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a wide-ranging discussion on important global, regional and bilateral issues.
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India and the UK on Tuesday unveiled a Roadmap 2030 to elevate the ties between the two countries to a comprehensive strategic level, and declared an enhanced trade partnership between the two countries to negotiate a balanced FTA, including an interim trade pact for delivering early gains.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 3, 2021 (ENS) – A giant gap between the amount of greenhouse gases countries report emitting and the amount of these heat-trapping gases independent scientists estimate from global models that the countries actually emit, a scientific team led by researchers of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has found.
The main issue is that there appears to be a “conceptual discrepancy between model estimates and country reporting,” the JRC researchers said.
As a fix, the JRC scientists are proposing a method for improving the assessment of the world’s collective progress towards the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting the global temperature increase to two degrees Celsius (2°C) above preindustrial levels.
One can argue that the issue of tackling climate change in Bangladesh has already achieved a whole-of-government approach, and is also rapidly moving towards a whole-of-society approach. However, our international diplomacy on tackling climate change also needs to develop both approaches.
What do these two terms mean, and how are they being rolled out? The whole-of-government approach means that not only ministries and departments, but also other branches such as local government, parliament, and even security and military apparatus, along with the judiciary, need to be involved. The whole-of-society approach means the additional inclusion of the private sector, media, academia, civil society and professional groups such as lawyers, doctors, planners and others.
By Ellen Fungisai Chipango – The Conversation AFRICA
ZIMBABWE is one of the African countries that hopes renewable energy technologies will help to address their energy problems.
About 42% of Zimbabwe’s households are connected to the electricity grid.
The country has huge and diverse renewable energy potential. Its sustainable energy portfolio could include solar, hydro, biomass, and to a limited extent, wind and geothermal.
Zimbabwe put forward a National Renewable Energy Policy in 2019. The policy aims to have 16.5% of the total generation capacity (excluding large hydro) from renewable sources by 2025.
This increases to 26.5% by 2030. These are among the goals it has presented to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and they are promoted in its climate policy.