India sees the lowest August rainfall in a century: IMD Context : India experienced 36% less rainfall than average in August, the lowest monthly total in more than a century. August typically experiences the second-highest rainfall (25.4 cm) of the four monsoon months, trailing only […]
Asian Development Bank, Centre to open climate change and health centre in Delhi Context India plans to open a climate change and health hub in New Delhi in partnership with the Asian Development Bank after securing the first WHO Centre for Global Traditional Medicine in […]
Carbon trading #GS 03 Climate Change For Prelims Carbon trading Carbon markets are a tool for reducing carbon emissions by allowing the trade of carbon credits hence making green technology profitable. It is done by establishing trading systems where carbon credits or allowances can be […]
Clean Energy and Indian Economy #GS-03 Climate Change, Clean Energy For Mains Expense on Crude by Indian Companies As per the individual loans and bonds, it has been found that 60% of the lending to the mining sector was for oil and gas extraction. In […]
Building climate resilience collectively #GS-03 Infrastructure, Climate Change For Prelims Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategy (LT-LCDS): LT-LCDS is India’s long-term climate action plan unveiled at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC (COP27), held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November. It has multi-sectoral measures […]
Energy Conservation Act, 2001 #GS 03 Climate Change For Prelims Energy Conservation Act, 2001 The act empowers the Centre to specify norms and standards of energy efficiency for appliances, industrial equipment and buildings with a connected load over 100 kiloWatts (kW) or a contractual demand […]
Climate talks as shortchanging international law #GS-03 Climate Change For Mains Developing Countries and Climate Change: There are three problems with the current negotiating process. First, citizens in developed countries are not even aware that two-thirds of their national emissions of carbon dioxide come from […]
Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) #GS-03 Climate Change For Prelims What is CCUS: Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is the process of capturing carbon dioxide emissions and either using them to make things such as building materials (utilization) or permanently storing them thousands […]
COP27 and the ambiguity about responsibility #GS-03 Climate Change For Prelims COP 27: 27th Conference of Parties of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is held at Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt. To know more about COP 27 click here. Loss and damage (L&D): COP27 adopted […]
Think local climate action, think Meenangadi #GS-02 Governance, #GS-03 Climate Change For Prelims ‘Panchamrit’ resolution: Five Nectar Elements (Panchamrit): India has presented the following five nectar elements (Panchamrit) of India’s climate action: Reach 500 GW Non-fossil energy capacity by 2030. 50 per cent of its […]