On the 24th of October 2022, the COP27 Presidency hosted in Cairo the Roundtable on discussing the draft report of “Independent High-level Expert Group on Scaling up Investment and Finance to Deliver on Climate Ambition and Development Goals”.
On the 2nd of September 2022, the ‘Cairo Climate Talks (CCT)’ convened the “Let’s Green Together” kids’ festival with the aim of educating children aged 10 to15 about climate change, from science to green habits.
According to academics from Budapest's Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary may endure severe droughts over the next several decades unless climate change mitigation measures are implemented.
On 28th April 2022, 100 European Union cities pledged to significantly decrease their emissions by 2030 as part of the European Commission's 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities scheme — and will receive support from the European Union to do so.
Every year by the time of November, Delhi-NCR starts gasping for fresh air. Pollution in the capital region has now reached extremely dangerous levels. Pollution also affects the health of school children, about which both the administration and the parents are worried.
The situation has become serious due to increasing pollution in the capital of the country. In many areas of Delhi today on November 1, the Air Quality Index (AQI) is above 400, while there is a dangerous situation in Narela where AQI has reached to 571 mark. Meanwhile, there is no hope of getting relief from pollution in Delhi-NCR yet. In fact, as the harvesting of paddy crops is high in November, the cases of stubble burning may increase, which is expected to increase the level of pollution in Delhi's air.
During his Gujarat visit, PM Modi inaugurated the Miyawaki forest near the Statue of Unity in Gujarat’s Ektanagar. This is a special type of forest that was discovered by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. Miyawaki forest in Kevadiya, Gujarat has been developed to reduce the impact of climate change and to increase tourism as a tourist destination. The forest has been developed on a site which was originally used as a 'dumping site'.
Egypt will present a new energy strategy for green hydrogen at the climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh in November this year. This could strengthen Egypt's geopolitical position. Along with this, the economy of the country will also be strengthened.
People have expressed their displeasure through their social media platforms for giving soft drinks company 'Coca-Cola Company' the responsibility of sponsoring the United Nations Climate Conference this year.
The next pandemic may not come from any bat or animal, but from the melting ice around the world. This claim has been made in research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Journal of Biological Science. Due to climate change, the ice of glaciers is continuously decreasing, due to which viruses and bacteria can be exposed to it. There may be a 'viral spillover' in the world, the study adds.
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