India claims most progress among G20 nations to meet Paris goals

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced that India has already installed 100 GW of renewable energy, adding that India is the only country among G20 nations that is progressing rapidly to meet its climate goals.

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JOB VACANCIES: 5 September 2021 / SEO/SEM Senior Associate, Strategic Communications, European Climate Foundation

Organization:European Climate Foundation Position:SEO/SEM Senior Associate, Strategic Communications Duty Station: Deadline for Application:5 September 2021

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JOB VACANCIES: 6 September 2021 / Senior Program Officer, Carbon Markets , ASPI

Organization:Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) Position:Senior Program Officer, Carbon Markets Duty Station:NY, DC, Seoul, Hong Kong, Manila, Mumbai, Tokyo or Zurich

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Remember Obama’s drill, baby, drill days? Democrats aren’t innocent on climate

Obama campaigned in climate poetry and then governed in fossil fuel prose. Joe Biden may well follow in his footsteps.

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‘You follow the government’s agenda’: China’s climate activists walk a tightrope

The IPCC’s alarming report has Chinese environmentalists wondering how to push a government that brooks no criticism into taking more action.

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Melbourne student and climate activist runs for board seat at energy giant AGL

Ashjayeen Sharif wants Australia’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter to be 100% renewable by 2030.

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Victoria consents to gas production from well near Twelve Apostles

Greens says government’s support for fossil fuel expansion is ‘bonkers’ and no one will visit the tourist site ‘if it’s surrounded by gas drilling rigs’.

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‘Nothing to eat’: Somalia hit by triple threat of climate crisis, Covid and conflict

Overlapping crises have pushed the fragile east African country to the ‘cusp of humanitarian catastrophe’, with one in four facing food insecurity.

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How can Britain commit to net zero and still drill for millions more barrels of oil?

Hypocrisy rules as we prepare to host Cop26 and Boris Johnson prepares to approve a new oilfield off Shetland

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Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook

Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action.

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Is democracy getting in the way of saving the planet?

Our climate is in crisis, but authoritarians and technocrats don’t have the answers

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Invasive fish push westward as the Mediterranean Sea slowly becomes tropical

A host of fish species arriving via the Suez canal look set to stay – with perilous consequences for ecosystems

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From 1m trees to a tree graveyard: how Dubai’s conservation plans went awry

Hundreds of thousands of trees have died after costly real estate projects thwarted attempts to halt desertification

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Here in British Columbia, we have spent the summer running from cruel wildfires

Blazes are destroying whole communities. The Canadian government must act now to tackle this existential threat

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‘Decarbonising aviation’: the Electric EEL could be the future of flying

The hybrid electric plane uses batteries instead of a conventional engine, the makers argue this means it is quieter, cheaper and greener

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Climate crisis made deadly German floods ‘up to nine times more likely’

Study reinforces the hard evidence that carbon emissions are the main cause of worsening extreme weather.

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Caldor fire continues to rage after winds fan northern California blaze

Zero containment of wildfire, one of about a dozen big blazes in drought-stricken state that have destroyed hundreds of homes.

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Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine

Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine", according to the United Nations, which says tens of thousands of people are already suffering "catastrophic" levels of hunger and food insecurity after four years without rain.

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Europe experiences warmest year on record in 2020

The latest edition in an annual series of global climate reports shows that Europe experienced its warmest year in 2020 by a considerable amount.

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