Every country except the US in the G20 reaffirmed their support for international efforts to fight global warming at the Hamburg summit, a sharp rebuke to US President Donald Trump
Nineteen members of the G20 nations underlined their commitment to the Paris agreement, with the US remaining the outlier in the statement on climate change issued at the annual meeting…Read More
It will take more than a recalcitrant Donald Trump to detail the decarbonising of G20 economies, especially in emerging nations such as India
As leaders of the G20 nations gather in Hamburg in Germany on July 7-8 for their annual meeting, lively debates are expected on climate change, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Markel prioritising the issue…Read More
With an aim to encourage non-motorised transport, a new initiative has made available some 500 bicycles from 50 stations across Bhopal that citizens can freely use through a fully automated system
Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, recently launched India’s first fully automated bicycle sharing system as part of its second anniversary of the Smart Cities programme…Read More
G20 countries have stepped up green finance, but their investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the well below 2 degree warming limits set in the Paris Agreement will be missed by a wide margin, says the 2017 report. This third edition of the annual report provides a comprehensive overview of the G20 countries on how they are doing on the journey to transition to a low-carbon economy. It assesses the main trends for the G20 in emissions, climate policy performance, finance and decarbonisation…Read more
Global lenders such as Bank of China, JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Canada and Citigroup continue to bankroll fossil fuels heavily, but the financing has fallen in the last one year
The world’s biggest banks are continuing to fuel climate change through the financing of extreme fossil fuels at a rate that will push the planet beyond the climate change limit…Read More
Latest News