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A report narrates the story of three migrants from Assam and West Bengal who have been uprooted from their hometowns by extreme climate events or industrial accidents. Meanwhile the Power Ministry asks MoEFCC to dilute emission norms for coal-based power stations. It is necessary however, that India needs to invest urgently in climate action.
While geoengineering is still a dangerous, techno-utopian dream, scientists agree that relying on forests to achieve net zero targets not a good idea. There is no doubt that humans have to be the point of solution for the planet’s uncontrolled slip into an abyss of ecological disaster.
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India bore maximum brunt of extreme weather events in 2020: Report, 28 December 2020
Savanna and grassland store up to a third of the world’s carbon in its soils. They keep streams flowing, recharge groundwater, and provide grazing for livestock and wildlife
A report narrates the story of three migrants from Assam and West Bengal who have been uprooted from their hometowns by extreme climate events or industrial accidents
Rapid decarbonisation of energy and transport systems and reduction in emissions are the ultimate ways to limit warming
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