New Delhi: India’s environment minister on Wednesday called for a sharp acceleration in global climate action, urging countries to triple renewable energy capacity and increase adaptation finance. Speaking at the silver jubilee edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) 2026 organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), Union minister Bhupendra Yadav said countries…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration’s latest effort to boost the fossil fuel industry by paring back clean air and water rules. Toxic emissions from coal- and oil-fired plants can harm the brain development of young children…
The conflicting positions of US President Donald Trump and major European governments came to the fore at a meeting of the west’s most important energy forecaster. For the first time in nine years, the International Energy Agency — created by developed nations in the 1970s to oversee energy security — failed to release a communique…
Barack Obama Expressed Concern: Former US President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed concern over Donald Trump’s decision in which Trump canceled the scientific judgment behind climate rules. Obama said this move would make ordinary Americans less safe and less healthy. This scientific report made during Obama’s time stated that greenhouse gases are a threat to…
The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic gauge of how close humanity is to self-destruction, has been moved to 85 seconds to midnight, its closest point ever, as global risks from nuclear weapons, climate change and artificial intelligence intensify. The clock was advanced by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a Chicago-based science advocacy group, which warned…
Amid warnings of severe cold and storms in large parts of America, President Donald Trump has once again taken a dig at global warming. Posting on the social media platform Truth Social, Trump said that when record cold is going to occur in 40 American states, then where has global warming gone? According to the…
As a winter storm is set to sweep across a huge part of the United States this week, bringing bitterly cold temperatures and putting more than 175 million people at risk of power outages and major travel disruptions, US President Donald Trump on Friday took a swipe at climate change activists. Trump took to Truth…
The European Union is postponing a major free-trade agreement with South American nations amid intense protests by farmers and last-minute pushback from France and Italy, which threatened to block the pact, seen by supporters as a significant geopolitical initiative for both continents. Top EU officials had planned to sign the EU-Mercosur deal in Brazil this…
New Delhi: In a setback for the India-backed International Solar Alliance (ISA), the United States has withdrawn its membership from the multilateral body that focuses on accelerating global solar energy adoption. The exit is part of a broader US move to pull out of 65 international organizations that the Trump administration has characterized as “wasteful,…
US President Donald Trump has ordered the United States to withdraw from dozens of international bodies, including the world’s central climate treaty and the UN’s leading climate science authority, marking one of the most far-reaching retrenchments from the multilateral system in modern American history. The decision, announced by the White House on Wednesday, is outlined…
