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Prague, Oct 3: Satellites orbiting Earth provide essential services to humanity. They connect us via the internet, they help with mapping and GPS and they monitor our changing climate, among other things. But ‘space junk’ threatens our use of satellites. Decommissioned satellites or their dislocated parts may lead to a chain reaction where small pieces of debris tear apart large objects in a cascading event creating more and more debris. Responsibility for space junk removal is an environmental problem similar […]

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Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav while attending the G20 Joint Environment and Climate Ministers Meeting (JECMM) held at Bali, Indonesia noted that sustainability requires coordinated action for the global commons.

The global carbon budget is the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions permitted over a period of time while still having a chance to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial (1850-1900) levels

"India has contributed only around 4 per cent of global cumulative emissions from 1850 to 2019, despite being home to around one-sixth of humanity," Union Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey told Rajya Sabha.