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India rolls out process to ratify Paris Agreement for tackling climate change
2016-07-04 13:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: India said that it has initiated the domestic process for ratifying the Paris Agreement, the global treaty to tackle climate change adopted by 195 countries in December. Addressing the seventh edition of the informal ministerial meet, Petersberg Dialogue, co-hosted by Germany and Morocco, the chair of the 22nd round of the UN-sponsored climate negotiations, India's environment minister Prakash Javadekar said, "As far as the Ratification is concerned, India has already started the process. Recently...
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India: Plant saplings to check climate change
2016-07-03 19:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Services and Sports, said on Sunday that it was essential to give importance to planting saplings to check global warming and climate change. He was speaking after inaugurating the 'Koti Vruksha Abhiyan` organised by the Department of Forests at the Town Hall, here. Mr. Madhwaraj said that a small country such as Bhutan had 80 per cent of forest cover. There were now variations in the onset of monsoon and seasonal changes. This year, the...
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At least 40 feared dead in rains, landslides in northern India
2016-07-03 13:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: At least 40 people were feared dead following a downpour that triggered flash floods and landslides in northern Indian Uttarakhand state over the weekend, a state official said. Several more people were still missing, a spokesman at the state chief minister's office, Om Prakash Sati, said on Sunday, with remote Chamoli and Pithoragarh being the worst affected districts in the state. The state has so far confirmed 18 deaths, of whom 15 were from Pithoragarh. The official toll was expected to...
After NSG rebuff, India falls back on fossil fuels for energy security
2016-07-03 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: After the failed attempt to join an exclusive group of 48 countries that control the trade in nuclear material and equipment, India is now falling back on its quest for more fossil fuel reserves. Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan will visit the US later this month to seek investments and technology from exploration companies for 67 smaller fields with oil and gas discoveries, which will be auctioned for commercial production under a liberal and simple revenue sharing agreement, said an oil ministry...
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Flash floods, landslides kill at least 50 people in Pakistan, India, officials say
2016-07-03 10:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 50 people in northern Pakistan and northern India, officials say. Key points: At least 43 killed in remote Pakistani village More than 40 feared dead in India's Uttarakhand state Thousands believed to be stranded in India At least 43 people were killed in Pakistan, most in a remote village that did not receive an evacuation warning before flash floods hit, washing away most of the settlement, officials said. The heavy monsoon rains...
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