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The Vodafone Business report define Fit for the Future (FFTF) businesses as those that understand the power of technology to solve their business challenges and have technology roadmaps in place to transform their working methods. Their strategies are specific, documented, adequately funded, and well-measured.

India is going to assume the G20 presidency on December 1, 2022, and the events will be held across the country.

Punjab has a high prevalence of cancer and its treatment involves high costs which is not affordable for the patients belonging to the poor. In order to safeguard the life of the poor patients, this scheme has proven to be a boon for them as they can get free treatment up to Rs 1.5 lakh in any of the 19 hospitals empanelled with the government.

With summits like the recent COP27 criticised for being inconclusive, it becomes very important for states to engage in bilateral cooperation to develop the technical and legal infrastructure needed for a smooth transition to renewable energy sources, which is a very important step towards creating a reduction in carbon footprints.

Nearly 28 per cent of the adults (aged 15 years and above) are known to consume tobacco products. What is even more distressing is the fact that 9 per cent of children in India aged between 13 and 15 years of age consume tobacco in some form or the other.

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The plastic crisis has been an ongoing environmental issue for a long time now. Disposal of plastic is always a difficult task since the material doesn't decompose for a long time. Burning and dumping have been two ways it has been disposed for the time being. However, a team of researchers from Queensland University of Technology has brought up an innovative proposal which prove to be a breakthrough in finding the way out of the Plastic Pollution crisis.

India termed COP27 "historic" for securing an agreement on establishing a fund to address loss and damage. The UN climate su...

Low-income and developing countries bear the brunt of climate change even though they are the least responsible for it. Therefore, in 2009, industrialised countries pledged $100billion a year by 2020 to Least Developed Countries and developing countries. However, with a majority of the funding directed to LDCs, countries like India need to generate their own funding to meet climate goals.

According to the UN report, this unprecedented growth can be attributed to the gradual increase in human lifespan, thanks to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene, medicine and fertility rates. However, it is also concerning that countries with the highest fertility levels are almost always those with the lowest income per capita.

According to estimations by BBC, if each of these private jets carried 15 people, each person would account for about three tonnes of CO2 equivalent on their journey. In comparison, if each of these delegates travelled in premium class, they would only be responsible for half a tonne CO2 equivalent each.

The Committee will adopt the first set of standards by June 2023, requiring large-scale businesses to provide much more detailed information on the various impacts of their processes. In addition, this information will be subject to independent auditing and certification, aside from being digitally accessible. This will ensure that the supplied information remains accurate and reliable.

Forest restoration is a powerful tool to tackle biodiversity loss and climate change, by locking away carbon and supporting important habitats. Researchers in a recent study found that trees planted in efforts to restore tropical and subtropical forests do not live more than five years.

In the lead up to the 27th Annual UN climate talks -- COP27 -- NIUA (National Institute of Urban Affairs) and RMI (Rocky Mou...

About 60% of the respondents explained that they incorporated sustainable strategies into their practices primarily because of regulatory mandates they had to abide by. In addition, only four in ten companies looked into their data to assess their sustainability, while a meagre 17% actually calculated their respective organisational carbon inputs.

With the adoption of the loss and damage funding formally in the COP27 agenda in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, a platform has been created to explore the financing options to find possible ways to address climate change risks. A slew of financial pledges were announced by the developed nations in the backdrop of a year when extreme climate events demonstrated again the urgency to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

In fact, the pace of sea-level rising has doubled since 1993, which could have potential calamitous repercussions around coastal communities. In Mumbai and Kochi, this could affect 2,490 and 1,502 buildings, as per the predictions made by RMSI, a geospatial engineering company, using data from a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Decarbonisation is a costly affair and it is imperative to act fast to finance the transition to net-zero emission goals, sa...

This fund mobilization is part of ADB's commitment to scale up financing for climate change adaptation.

It will cost the equivalent of just ₹40 per person per year for the next five years to reach everyone on Earth with early warning systems against increasingly extreme and dangerous weather, according to a plan unveiled by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and conceived by the World Meteorological Organisation.

Since 2021, we’ve only managed to slash 1% (0.5 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent) of the projected emissions. To anchor global warming to the 1.5°C target, we need to bring these figures down to at least 45% by 2030, while a 30% reduction is needed to remain under the 2°C threshold.

The sheer range of the disaster types seems eyebrow-raising. India simultaneously recorded one of the wettest Januaries and one of the driest Marches in over 120 years. In addition, eastern and northeastern India recorded abnormally cold day and night-time temperatures in February, which can be devastating for crop growth due to frost development.

The report found that while at least 21.24 million children in Kenya are estimated to be affected by at least one extreme climate event a year, some of them are at particular risk because they are living in crippling poverty and so have fewer resources to protect themselves and recover.

Only 551 million hectares accounted for in pledges would restore degraded lands and primary forests, which store carbon, regulate rainfall and local temperatures, shelter plants and animals, purify water and air and in some cases belong to Indigenous peoples, whose land rights are found to be critical to reducing climate change due to their stewardship of forests.

Over the past decade or so, sustainability has become the mantra of the manufacturing sector. Technical and i...