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COP28 success: Nations agree to transition away from fossil fuels (Photo: Reuters)
Updated : Dec 15, 2023

COP28 success: Nations agree to transition away from fossil fuels

Agreement includes call to triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency by 2030

Nations strike deal at COP28 to transition away from fossil fuels (Photo: Reuters)
Updated : Dec 14, 2023

Nations strike deal at COP28 to transition away from fossil fuels

The deal struck in Dubai after two weeks of hard-fought negotiations was meant to send a powerful message to investors and policy-makers that the world is united in its desire to break with fossil fuels, something scientists say is the last best hope to stave off climate catastrophe.

Adani Group to invest $100 bn in green energy transition
Updated : Dec 13, 2023

Adani Group to invest $100 bn in 10 years for green energy transition; plant 100 mn trees by 2030

Five Adani Group companies –  Adani Green Energy, Adani Energy Solutions, Adani Ports & SEZ, ACC and Ambuja Cements – have set a target to become net zero by 2050 or earlier.

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Updated : Dec 12, 2023

12-year-old Indian climate activist, Licypriya, storms stage at COP28 Summit; gets detained

Licypriya Kangujam, a 12-year-old climate activist from Manipur, burst on to the stage at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2023 (COP28) in Dubai on Monday, holding a sign above her head that read, 'End fossil fuel. Save our planet and our future'

Gautam Adani on Adani Ports & SEZ's climate initiatives amid COP28
Updated : Dec 8, 2023

Carbon neutral by 2025, net zero by 2040: Gautam Adani shares plan for Adani Ports amid COP28

COP28: Gautam Adani adding that they are electrifying all cranes, switching from diesel-based Internal Transfer Vehicles to battery-based ones, and installing an additional 1000 MW of captive renewable capacity. 

Climate talks shift into high gear. Now words and definitions matter at COP28 (Photo: AP)
Updated : Dec 8, 2023

Climate talks shift into high gear. Now words and definitions matter at COP28

EU negotiators say the core document is in pretty good shape and are confident the key issues are clearly defined. Options remain open for ministers taking over the negotiations which is not often the case at this stage of these difficult multilateral talks.

Green groups at COP28 demand US halt support for LNG (Photo: Reuters)
Updated : Dec 8, 2023

Green groups at COP28 demand US halt support for LNG

The Biden administration has approved five US LNG export licenses to serve the European market following Russia's Feb. 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine, having approved none beforehand.

Head of Strategy, Energy Transition of the Office of the UAE Special Envoy for Climate Change, Abdulla Malek addresses the panellists at the opening ceremony for Energy Day during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai
Updated : Dec 5, 2023

Phasing out fossil fuels among options on table for COP28 climate talks

Research published on Tuesday showed global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are set to hit a record high this year, exacerbating climate change and fuelling more destructive extreme weather

The MOU between TerraPower and the UAE said they would explore uses for advanced nuclear reactors
Updated : Dec 4, 2023

COP28: UAE signs deal with Bill Gates' nuclear company on advanced reactors

The memorandum of understanding comes amid a push by the UAE to expand its nuclear energy capacity, and a pledge by over 20 nations at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple nuclear deployment this decade to fight climate change

"There is no solution set out there today that is at the scale to solve the problem," Woods told Reuters on the sidelines of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai
Updated : Dec 4, 2023

COP28: Exxon Mobil CEO rebuffs IEA criticism of carbon capture strategy

While few commercially viable carbon-capture projects exist due to high costs, EVs now make up about 13% of the global new vehicle market, and solar and wind deployments have been expanding rapidly

Calls to overhaul the way the banks are run in response to the climate crisis have picked up amid record extreme weather events
Updated : Dec 4, 2023

Top development banks at COP28 vow to up climate game, quiet on fossil fuels

In a statement to be announced at the event in Dubai, the group, including the World Bank and regional peers, said the window of opportunity to secure a liveable planet was "rapidly closing"

Calls to overhaul the way the banks are run in response to the climate crisis have picked up amid record extreme weather events, and while the group disbursed a record $61 billion in finance in 2022, it remains just a fraction of what is needed
Updated : Dec 3, 2023

Top development banks at COP28 vow to up climate game, quiet on fossil fuels

In a statement to be announced at the event in Dubai, the group, including the World Bank and regional peers, said the window of opportunity to secure a liveable planet was "rapidly closing"

It has more warming potential than carbon dioxide and breaks down in the atmosphere faster, so reining in methane emissions can have a more immediate impact on limiting climate change
Updated : Dec 3, 2023

US lays out plan at COP 28 to slash greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas

Methane tends to leak into the atmosphere undetected from drill sites, gas pipelines and other oil and gas equipment

United Arab Emirates Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands during national statements at COP28
Updated : Dec 2, 2023

COP28: 118 countries agree to triple renewable energy, to push out fossil fuels

The pledge forms a part of several declarations made at COP28 to decarbonise the energy sector, which accounts for approximately three-quarters of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.

COP28 is the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Updated : Dec 2, 2023

COP28: Oil giants including Exxon, Aramco promise emission cuts, but production remains unchanged

COP28 is taking place at Expo City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates from November 30 to December 12, 2023.

Modi met his Italian counterpart on the sidelines of the global climate summit.
Updated : Dec 2, 2023

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni shares 'Melodi' selfie with PM Modi at COP28; post goes viral

At the time of writing this story, the post garnered over 3,62,000 likes and numerous comments.

PM Narendra Modi proposes to host COP33 in India in 2028
Updated : Dec 4, 2023

Dubai: PM Modi proposes to host COP33 in India in 2028

'We must rise above self interest and transfer technology,' says PM Modi at COP28 in Dubai

In establishing the fund on the first day of the two-week COP28 conference, delegates opened the door for governments to announce contributions.
Updated : Dec 1, 2023

COP28 kicks off with climate disaster fund victory

COP28 President Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber said the decision sent a "positive signal of momentum to the world and to our work here in Dubai."

Following his arrival in Dubai, Modi said that he is looking forward to the proceedings of the summit
Updated : Dec 1, 2023

COP28: PM Modi greeted with 'Bharat Mata ki Jai', 'Vande Mataram' chants at Dubai airport; video goes viral

The video went viral in no time ahead of the Prime Minister's address at the opening session of COP28.

COP28 is expected to push the goal of limiting long-term global temperature rises to 1.5 degree C.
Updated : Nov 30, 2023

COP28 begins today in Dubai: PM Modi, Rishi Sunak, King Charles III, Kamala Harris to attend summit

The annual climate summit in Dubai this year is expected to focus on fast-tracking the move to clean energy sources, to cut greenhouse gas emissions before 2030.

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