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France Top Destination for Renewable Energy Investment in G20: Report

France gains the 1st position due to an overall favorable environment for renewables, leading the G20 in investment attractiveness of renewables. France has overtaken Germany as the most lucrative destination for renewable energy investment in the G20 bloc, Allianz Climate and Energy Monitor 2018 has found. “France gains the 1st position due to an overall […]

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Adapt or Die – Can Renewables Save the Planet, or Is It Too Late?

Since the recently held Global Climate Action Summit where global leaders debated the practicalities of taking the climate change battle to the next level, media sources the world over have all been reporting the same thing: if global warming is not kept in check, there will be dangerous environmental and socio economical consequences. The BBC headlined with […]

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Braking Global Warming at 1.5 Degree Celsius Calls ‘Unprecedented Changes’: IPCC

IPCC has, on its shoulders, the task of providing the policymakers with a regular assessment of the scientific basis of climate change along with its impacts and future risks like global warming. While hundreds of scientists and government representatives from across the world contributing their inputs on climate change and resultant increasing global warming during […]

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NDMC to Install ‘Solar Tree’ under Smart City Project

The batch included free Wi-Fi, solar tree, ideation center, interactive LED screens installation, two hi-tech nurseries, four mechanical road sweepers, two litter picking machines and 10 auto tippers undertook by NDMC. The government seems to ‘kill two birds with one stone’ as Home Minister Rajnath Singh asserts to install solar tree in Delhi under the […]

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Power generation capacity from renewable energy sources

India’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), as submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under Paris Climate Agreement, inter-alia, include achieving about 40 percent cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel based energy resources by 2030. India has taken various initiatives, including setting up of National Solar Mission and announcing target […]

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Syria Formally Joins Signs Paris Climate Deal, Leaving US Isolated

The Syrian Arab Republic deposited its instrument of accession of the Paris Agreement on 13 November 2017. Syria has officially joined the 2015 Paris Agreementon climate change, the United Nations said, leaving the United States as the only country opposed to the pact. “The Syrian Arab Republic deposited its instrument of accession of the Paris […]

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Curtain Raiser Event held for the Founding Ceremony of International Solar Alliance in Bonn, Germany

A Curtain Raiser Event for the Founding Ceremony of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) was held at Bonn, Germany yesterday. Speaking at the event, Shri Anand Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India hoped that, in the spirit of affirmative action, developed countries will earmark a percentage of Overseas Development Assistance […]

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Efforts to Address Climate through Clean Energy Lag in Emerging Markets

Two years post-Paris, Climatescope research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance highlights slowing investment from OECD countries and limited policy-making follow-through in non-OECD nations. Two years since the signing of the Paris climate agreement and eight years after Copenhagen, countries on both sides of the rich-poor divide are falling short on promises made to address climate […]

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