Today, you are all welcome at the launch of ‘One Sun, One World, One Grid’. With the initiatives from the International Solar Alliance and the UK’s Green Grid Initiative, my many-year-old vision of ‘One Sun, One World, One Grid’ got a concrete shape today. Excellencies, the industrial revolution was fuelled by fossil fuels. Many countries […]
COP26: India launches ‘One Sun, One World, One Grid’ to improve viability of solar power – EQ Mag Pro
Glasgow : India on Tuesday launched ‘One Sun, One World, One Grid’ at the global climate conference with an aim to harness solar energy wherever the sun is shining, thereby ensuring that generated electricity flows to areas that need it most. As part of this, it unveiled plans for the first international network of global […]
ADB, Multilateral Banks Commit to Mainstreaming Nature at COP26 – EQ Mag Pro
GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM : The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other leading multilateral development banks (MDBs) issued today a high-level joint statement affirming their commitment to mainstreaming nature into their policies, analysis, assessments, advice, investments, and operations. The statement, which was launched at COP26 in Glasgow, recognizes the critical role nature’s ecosystems and biodiversity play […]
Is India set to go big on ‘green’ hydrogen at COP26? – EQ Mag Pro
New Delhi : Just as it was the International Solar Alliance (ISA) at the time of Paris COP in 2015, there is a strong possibility that India would go big about “green” hydrogen at this COP that starts on Sunday at the UK’s Glasgow. India has been under pressure to declare either enhanced ambition or […]
Agenda for CoP26: Why China matters at Glasgow – EQ Mag Pro
As the new global superpower and polluter, China’s emissions will have a significant impact on the world’s ability to achieve its climate goals There is a before-China and after-China period in climate change. Till the early 2000s, the US, EU, UK, Russia, Australia, Canada and Japan dominated global emissions. But this has changed significantly from […]
COP26 should be the ‘COP of action and implementation’: India
New Delhi : Assuring India’s full support to the UK COP Presidency for the meaningful outcome of COP, India on Friday said the upcoming climate change summit should be the “COP of action and implementation”. Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Minister, Bhupender Yadav, meeting visiting UK Foreign Minister, Elizabeth Truss, discussed crucial issues related to […]
Strengthening Financial Institution Strategies to Adapt to the Climate Crisis – EQ Mag Pro
In the lead-up to COP26 this November, financial institutions are ramping up their climate commitments, allocating additional investment to clean energy and reducing fossil fuels investment. All 10 major North American banks have set net-zero or Paris-aligned targets within the past year. On April 13, 411 businesses and investors representing $4 trillion in annual revenue […]
Canada, Germany to Lead Roadmap in Mobilizing Climate Finance
The countries were clear that COP26 needs to deliver actions, not just words. Many highlighted the importance of ending coal power, coal financing and fossil fuel subsidies. Climate ministers have taken a step forward towards a successful UN climate summit named COP26, as a constructive meeting in London concluded with countries, including India, coming closer […]
World ‘Way Off Track’ On Climate: UK Business Lobby
Britain, which hosted the weekend G7 leaders’ summit, will also anchor the COP26 UN climate gathering in Glasgow in November. World efforts to tackle climate change are “way off track”, the head of Britain’s main business lobby group said Monday after a G7 pledge to step up action. Tony Danker, director-general of the Confederation of […]
Hydrogen Key to Developing a Global Green Economy
Green hydrogen could one day evolve into a global commodity, traded in the same way that gas, oil and coal are. This would strengthen energy security and international trace in a cost-effective way. But, the idea is still a pipe-dream as hydrogen is not yet traded across borders in any significant amounts and hardly any […]