The world is at an inflection point in the climate crisis and India has a major role to play by taking a pro-active stance towards international climate negotiations. Mint and Danfoss come together to unravel stories covering India's pathway for achieving its climate change commitments and the strategy to combat air and water pollution crisis. This theme also aims to capture the country's global engagement through international climate treaties such as Minamata Convention, Paris Climate Agreement and the Montreal Protocol and to discuss the business opportunities that have emerged given India's new emission standards.
While climate change and environment, and urbanization are focus areas in the economic policy making in India, there is also an opportunity for it to work together with China on the climate agenda...
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The panel discussion on climate imperatives, moderated by Mint's energy editor Utpal Bhaskar, included J. Srinivasan, distinguished scientist, Divecha Centre for Climate Change; Jagdish Krishnaswamy, senior fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology...
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The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has embarked on a multi-pronged strategy for achieving its climate change commitments, with measures ranging from combating air and water pollution to global...
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India is among the fastest growing economies and the third largest emitting country in the world, but has always held the onus of climate change on developed countries for their historical emissions. If it is the responsibility of every country to protect its...
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Average temperatures have risen over the past six decades and continue to do so in South Asia, making it, particularly India, where 75% of the population is dependent on agriculture, one of the regions most vulnerable to climate...
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Average sea levels may rise by up to 30 feet around the world if humans continue to burn fossil and fuels causing temperatures to breach the threshold of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial...
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Nearly half of the population in India lives in places that are likely to become moderate or severe climate hot spots by 2050, according to a World Bank Study launched very recently. Changing rainfall pattern due to climate change could result...
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When Ahmedabad became the first city in South Asia to develop a heat action plan in 2013, the initiative snowballed into a national effort involving 30 other cities. Several of them also appointed a resilience officer for the first...
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