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Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments

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billion tonnes by 2029-2030. This [trade-off] demonstrates a proactive approach, as the nation actively pursues renewable energy sources [and] energy efficiency measures over a wide range of sectors and cleaner energy technologies,” says Kumar. million tonnes, rising to 1.025 billion tonnes by 2031-2032. Is forest cover the panacea?

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In Chicago, Flooding Overwhelmingly Strikes Communities of Color

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In the early 1970s, Chicago embarked on one of the region’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects to date: the Tunnel and Reservoir Project or “Deep Tunnel,” a massive storage system that will be able to hold more than 20 billion gallons of water when it’s finished in 2029. . They found an important statistical relationship.

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Book review: A grand survey of climate hope

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It is only in the penultimate chapter, on Unilever’s transformation under the leadership of its CEO Paul Polman between 2009 and 2019, that the business case for climate change is really made. The shift will only occur when government regulations hold carbon-emitting companies accountable for emission costs. billion tonnes by 2029-30.