The green technology industry could be worth several trillion dollars by 2030 but developing countries will miss out on the boom unless they jump in now, the UN said Thursday. From a roughly equal position three years ago, green technology exports from the most advanced countries are already racing ahead of developing nations, warned the […]
Climate change could jeopardise energy security if renewables not doubled by 2030, says UN body – EQ Mag Pro
World Meteorological Organization report says heatwaves, droughts & rising sea levels are putting existing energy generation under stress. New Delhi: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations agency, has released a new report that says unless clean or renewable sources of energy are doubled by 2030, securing energy across the world could be jeopardised […]
UN chief Guterres calls for speedy transition to renewable energy – EQ Mag Pro
The UN chief warned that global average temperatures have already risen by 1.1 degrees Celsius UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a faster transition to renewable energy. “Instead of slowing down the decarbonisation of the global economy, now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future,” the UN chief […]
UN launches ‘guiding principles’ for near-zero carbon hydrogen
The United Nations High-Level Champions for Climate Action, Gonzalo Munoz and Nigel Topping, and the global partners of the UN Marrakech Partnership on Thursday published the result of months-long collaboration to strengthen and ground discourse on the role of hydrogen in decarbonisation efforts. The ‘Guiding Principles for Climate-aligned Hydrogen Deployment’ will assist stakeholders in managing […]
UN redoubles green energy push to save climate, boost electricity – EQ Mag Pro
The comments came as governments and the private sector pledged to spend more than $400 billion at a high-level summit. United Nations : The United Nations chief called Friday for the world to redouble its renewable energy efforts to avert a climate emergency and address global energy poverty. “Today, we face a moment of truth,” […]
As leaders reconvene at UN, climate and COVID top the list – EQ Mag Pro
With the coronavirus pandemic still raging in many parts of the world, leaders from more than 100 nations are heading to New York this week for the United Nations’ annual high-level gathering. UNITED NATIONS : Last year, no leaders came at all. This year will be quite different – sort of. With the coronavirus pandemic […]
UN Climate Summit in November Last Chance, Warns UK’s Indian-Origin Climate Chief
He also defended his recent hectic travel agenda, which came under some media criticism for his ministerial exemption from COVID-19 self-isolation rules on return from red list countries. Alok Sharma, the UK minister in charge of the COP26 climate summit talks in Glasgow in November, on Sunday warned that the meeting hosted by Britain later […]
Proposed Global UN Roadmap Shows Universal Access to Clean Energy by 2030
Everyone in the world could have access to clean, affordable energy within the next nine years if countries modestly increase investments, according to new UN reports. It was released, in advance of a major ministerial meeting on June 21-25 where countries and businesses will begin to announce energy plans for the decade. Annual investments of […]
EnKing International supporting UN’s ecosystem restoration goal by initiating Nature Based Solutions
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2021, Mr. Manish Dabkara (CMD & CEO at EnKing International) officially announced about initiating a new service vertical named Nature Based Solutions, under which organization will be rendering solutions to the project owners or developers of a wide variety of projects in sustainable agriculture land management, afforestation and […]
AIIB Launches Sustainable Development Bond Framework
Includes Commitment to Report on the Bank’s Environmental and Social Impacts. Today, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) launched a new framework to help the investor community better assess how the Bank is living up to its sustainability commitments. The Sustainable Development Bond Framework clearly outlines how AIIB is adhering to the principles set out […]