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World welcomes India climate pledge
2015-10-02 11:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: India has unveiled plans to clean up its development and adapt to climate change impacts in a long-awaited pledge to the UN. The core targets are to cut emissions intensity -- greenhouse gases for each unit of GDP -- 33-35% by 2030, get 40% of electricity from non-fossil fuel sources and sequester 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 through reforestation. It was the last major emitter to submit its contribution to a global pact due to be signed in Paris this December. Here is a round-up of the...
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Paris Climate Deal Should be Comprehensive, Equitable: India
2015-10-02 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: Calling for a comprehensive and equitable climate change agreement at Paris summit later this year, India today said developing countries can do more if they are enabled in their efforts with the provision of finance, technology transfer and capacity building support from developed countries. "As we prepare to meet in two months time in Paris, the world expects us to deliver an ambitious and credible agreement on climate change. We have a duty for common action but in doing so we must keep in...
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Car sales skid in depressed climate
2015-10-02 10:10:46| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The depressed economic environment, low business and consumer confidence and pressure on the disposable income available to consumers contributed towards new car sales slumping year on year by 13.2 percent to 37 309 unit sales last month. This is the sharpest decline in new car sales this year, which occurred despite the vehicle rental industry accounting for 21.9 percent or more than one in every five new cars sold in the month.
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Climate Change: India pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions by up to 35 percent
2015-10-02 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jagran: In its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last night, India announced that it aims at achieving around 40 percent cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030. In the 38-page document, India said that it would need, as per preliminary estimates, around USD 206 billion between 2015 and 2030 for implementing adaptation actions in agriculture, forestry,...
Impact of climate change on South Asia
2015-10-01 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Himalayan Times: Temperatures are already rising and are expected to continue to rise in South Asia, thus making varied impacts in different countries. For Nepal it means that the nation may see 10 per cent GDP loss from glacier melts, climate extremes, according to Asian Development Bank (ADB) climate and economics report for South Asia. The number and frequency of extreme events have been increasing in the region, pointed out Preety Bhandari, Director, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division, ADB...
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