During his April 5-9, 2021, visit to India and Bangladesh, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry highlighted several new initiatives from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in India and Bangladesh that will help combat climate change by expanding access to clean energy, strengthening climate-resilient infrastructure, and promoting clean energy entrepreneurship. In […]
India in process of setting up national bank for funding infrastructure investments: FM Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that India has committed budgetary resources for resilient infrastructure and it is in the process of setting up a national bank for funding infrastructure investments. She was speaking at a virtual session organised by Coalition of Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in New Delhi. Ms Sitharaman cited three concrete steps […]
UK minister for COP26 in India to advance partnership on climate action
During the two-day visit, Alok Sharma will meet senior ministers, business leaders and civil society to discuss climate issues and to prepare for the COP26 summit in November The United Kingdom’s minister responsible for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2021 or COP26, Alok Sharma, arrived in India on Monday for talks with interlocutors and […]
Climate Change: Nine nations agreed to join India led CDRI
International Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a corpus aimed at funding technical assistance and research projects on climate change on an ongoing basis over a period of 5 years from 2019. In pursuance to its commitment for international cooperation on fight against Climate Change, India has approved an allocation of Rs 480 crore […]