Paris climate change News

Arguing that countries like China and India are benefiting the most from the Paris Agreement, Trump had said that the agreement on climate change was unfair to the US, as it badly hit its businesses and jobs.

China overtook the United States as the world`s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007.

During the Paris climate meet in December last, more than 190 nations had agreed on setting ambitious goals for capping global warming and funneling trillions of dollars to poor countries facing climate catastrophe.

India ranks fourth in the global list of carbon dioxide-emitting countries, according to a 2014 table released by the European Commission and Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

During the week, the digital trees will keep 'growing' on the tower in order to raise awareness about the world’s forests and also to raise funds to plant more trees around the globe.

The voluntary pledges -- dubbed Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs -- will help cap global warming at two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

PM Modi asked the people to adopt energy conservation and energy efficiency measures like the maximum use of solar-powered items.

China, the world's top polluter, will work with all parties to reach a balanced agreement at the Paris climate change conference later this month which will be a milestone in global climate governance, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said today.

The NASA study challenges the oft-repeated findings of the United Nation's panel on climate change, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that forecast a grim future for the melting ice sheets of the Antarctic.

Rice said the world is in a position to achieve a meaningful agreement in Paris.