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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of a man speaking about decolonising the climate movement and criticising the West for its contributions to climate change at Glasgow, UK, is going viral online. Claims suggest that the man is IAS officer Vijay Singh, and social media users are praising him for his candidness. BOOM found that the man is Vijay Prashad, journalist at Globetrotter and director of Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, and the video is from December 2021. In the video, Vijay is heard talking about everything the West has taken resources and money from India for centuries, and ho...
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By Nikhil Ghanekar Following days of intense negotiations, nearly 200 countries agreed on the creation of a new global 'loss and damage' fund for vulnerable countries facing devastation from extreme weather events triggered by climate change. The creation of the new fund was considered a silver lining at the conclusion of the annual 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), even though little progress was made on the other big agenda of cutting carbon emissions that contribute the most to climate change. While the decision to create this new fund was celebrated, much of the spadew...
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By BOOM Team In the ongoing UN climate change conference in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh, India has said that no sector, fuel source, or gas should be singled out for action in the fight against climate change. India's environment minister Bhupender Yadav said the goals to control emissions for the next three decades have been the "dominant narrative that developed countries have sought to establish." "Unfortunately, promises, either for 2030 or 2050, have been the dominant narrative that developed countries have sought to establish," Yadav said adding that at this year's COP, issues of relevance t...
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By The Conversation The burning of fossil fuels caused 86% of all CO₂ emissions during the past ten years. Despite being the primary culprits of global heating, coal, oil and gas were barely mentioned in the official texts of previous UN climate change summits. That all changed at COP26 in November 2021, where the Glasgow climate pact was signed. The agreement contained the first ever acknowledgement of the role of fossil fuels in causing climate change. It also urged nations to phase out measures which subsidise the extraction or consumption of fossil fuels and to "phase-down" coal power. Wit...
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