Once upon the time, India looked upon international climate meetings with something akin to distaste. Indira Gandhi played the role of malcontent at the 1972 Stockholm conference that kicked off modern environmental diplomacy, characterizing such concerns as a luxury for rich countries that poorer nations couldn’t afford to indulge. In 2009, then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh […]
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SEADS 2023: Call for Accelerated Climate Action Towards a Net-Zero ASEAN – EQ Mag
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) held its fourth Southeast Asia Development Symposium (SEADS) on 30 March 2023 in Bali, Indonesia, with a virtual broadcast of the event. SEADS was a key side-event of the ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting. SEADS 2023: “Imagining a Net-Zero ASEAN,” brought together more than 3,000 government officials, […]
Climate maths ‘doesn’t add up’ without carbon capture: COP28 chief – EQ Mag
Major international climate event kicks off in Abu Dhabi — 205 days before the UAE hosts COP28 The COP28 president-designate has called for collective action to transform, decarbonise, and future-proof economies as he addressed more than 1,500 policymakers, experts, and industry leaders at the UAE Climate Tech on Wednesday. “This forum aims to use the […]
Regional Cooperation Vital to Addressing Climate Change in Central and West Asia, Says ADB
INCHEON, REPUBLIC OF KOREA : Central and West Asia, and its neighboring countries, must work together to address increasingly severe impacts of climate change that could lead to water scarcity, food insecurity, and even conflict in the region, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said today. “The recent, intense weather events in Central and West Asia […]
How IF-CAP Will Accelerate Climate Action in Asia and the Pacific
Asia and the Pacific is uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. As Asia and the Pacific’s climate bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is spearheading the Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific (IF-CAP) to help the region reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate […]
Fossils or not? Nations are split on how to meet climate goals – EQ Mag
Senior officials from dozens of nations meeting in Berlin remained divided Wednesday on how to meet international climate goals Senior officials from dozens of nations meeting in Berlin remained divided Wednesday on how to meet international climate goals, with some pushing for a phase-out of fossil fuels and others insisting that oil and gas can […]
Campaigners call for fossil fuel deadline, more climate aid – EQ Mag
Environmental campaigners urged climate envoys from dozens of nations gathering yesterday in Berlin to discuss a global deadline for phasing out fossil fuels and ways of increasing aid to poor countries hit by global warming. About 40 countries, including tmacaudailytimeshe United States, China, India and Brazil, are attending the Petersberg Climate Dialogue being held in […]
Climate talks see pushes for global renewable energy target – EQ Mag
Germany called Tuesday for governments around the world to work on setting an ambitious target for renewable energy that would “ring in the end of the fossil fuel age” and help prevent dangerous global warming. Speaking at the start of a two-day meeting in Berlin attended by dozens of top climate envoys, German Foreign Minister […]
G20: An opportunity to meet the Global South’s climate finance needs – EQ Mag
The present commitments made by the developed countries to provide climate finance have proved to be insufficient. The G20 needs to find pragmatic solutions to mitigate this issue of green finance. The world is at a critical juncture in history; the urgency of tackling climate change can no longer be delayed or treated as aspirational. […]
BP faces angry shareholders over climate plans – EQ Mag
Some of Britain’s biggest pension funds have warned that they will oppose the renewal of Helge Lund’s mandate at the annual general meeting (AGM) in London Energy giant BP on Thursday faced a shareholder revolt over its decision to slow its energy transition, with activist investors promising to block the re-election of the head of […]