Tag: Paris Agreement

Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) Bhupender Yadav extended full support to the UK for COP26 to be held in Glasgow in November 2021

London: Countries need to keep global temperatures in check by meeting the goals set out in the Paris Agreement, or more people could die because of extreme temperatures, researchers have warned. The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015 under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), binds nations to hold warming well […]

Cape Town: South Africa will introduce a climate change legislation by 2018, as part of its commitments to the Paris Agreement, the Parliament has said. The Parliament has been informed of this development by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs (PCEA) said on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported. “The […]

Madrid: The UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) opened here in the Spanish capital on Monday, where delegates are discussing measures to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement amid unclear prospects and challenges to multilateralism. The opening ceremony began with a warning from Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): “If we continue […]