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Paris Climate Agreement: The climate pledges of India, China, US and world's other top emitters
•Under the Paris Climate Agreement, signatories are required to periodically renew their emission-cutting plans to drive more rapid decreases in emissions.
'Day of hope': Antonio Guterres hails US' official re-entry into Paris Climate Agreement
•During the virtual event, Guterres added that the absence of a key player had created a 'missing link that weakened' the Paris Agreement
US formally quits Paris climate accord as Democrats, Republicans vie for presidential post
•While Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden has proposed a $1.7 trillion plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions, Donald Trump, who pulled the US out of the accord, has said that if he is re-elected states and businesses will be left to devise plans to mitigate climate change
'Clean' coal doesn't exist, post-COVID economic recovery plans should not use coal: UN chief
•Guterres said it was deeply concerning that new coal plants are still being planned, when renewables offer thrice as many jobs, and are cheaper in most countries.
US walks out of Paris Agreement on climate change; Opposition slams Donald Trump's 'shockingly reckless' decision
•The United States has formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, a global agreement in which President Donald Trump's predecessor Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had played instrumental roles.
Double counting of emissions could undermine Paris agreement goals; damage can be undone by robust accounting, common rules
•In a separate point of debate some countries oppose the idea of a single international body overseeing carbon trading under the Paris agreement, arguing for more national sovereignty and flexibility between nations buying and selling
Earth Day 2019: Upgrading to nutritious, environmentally safe meat is of global importance
Varun_deshpande •Researchers all over the world are pioneering techniques for making delicious and nutritious meat.
The trouble with relying on trees as carbon sink to do our global warming bidding
Raghumurtugudde •While a prime source of food, fiber & medicines still, forests may not be our climate change savior, too.
Not everything can be saved from climate change, tough decisions will be needed
•From triage based plans to putting frameworks, metrics in place, here's what needs to be prioritised
UN COP24 in Katowice: 3 key outcomes from the 13-day international climate summit
•The binding decisions avoid the ambitious calls needed to reduce emissions, pollution before 2020.