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  • Junk the term climate change, replace it with one that recognises impending catastrophe

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    Financial Express

    Junk the term climate change, replace it with one that recognises impending catastrophe

    Scotland has already declared a climate emergency and is setting targets to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions to net-zero by 2045.

  • UNFCCC@25: Little to show, need new platforms and ideas to combat climate change

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    Financial Express

    Junk the term climate change, replace it with one that recognises impending catastrophe

    UNFCCC doesn’t have the tools to drive global collective action to combat climate change; we need new platforms and ideas to drive transformation

  • Explained: Why Paris Agreement can’t secure the world from climate change

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    Financial Express

    Explained - Why Paris Agreement can’t secure the world from climate change

    These words were spoken nearly 100 years ago by the then US president Woodrow Wilson to describe his vision of a new world order after the first World War.

  • Saving the earth from disastrous climate change needs a Plan B. Here is what that could be

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    Financial Express

    Saving the earth from disastrous climate change needs a Plan B. Here is what that could be

    The world cannot afford warming of 2°C. To have a fighting chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the goal must be firmly fixed at 1.5°C

  • Can the thermal power sector be trusted again?

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    Can the thermal power sector be trusted again?

    In the heydays of ‘India Shining’ in 2003, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) had experimented with an alternate model to control pollution from industries. The model was named ‘Corporate Responsibility for Environment Protection’, or CREP. It was based on the principle of voluntary compliance: instead of the government [...]

One of India’s foremost environment and climate change experts Chandra Bhushan is the President & CEO of the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology (iFOREST).

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