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Last Year Was The Fourth Warmest on Record

Reuters 07/01/2019

Almost 200 nations agreed to a "rule book" to...

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Review: The Promise of an Affordable Transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Economy

Ajay Shankar 07/01/2019

While offering solutions and hope, Prem Shankar Jha’s book...

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Why Non-Party Stakeholders Could Be Torchbearers of Climate Change Fight

Sumit Prasad and Arsheen Kaur 19/12/2018

Every country must empower and acknowledge local non-party stakeholders...

Saving the Planet: Is Half a Nobel Prize Better Than None?

Shreekant Gupta 09/11/2018

Unlike Nobel laureates recognised for work done years or...

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Environment Ministry’s Cooling Action Plan Is a Good Start but Not Good Enough

Parul Kumar 25/10/2018

The ICAP alludes vaguely to “targeted programmes to enable...

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There’s No Time for Gradualism

Alyssa Battistoni 14/10/2018

Nothing we need to do to stop climate catastrophe...

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Climate Change Is Reducing the Ability of Forests to Store Carbon

Lalitha Krishnan 13/10/2018

India has said it will boost its carbon sink...