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Dr. Seema Javed   On Wednesday 20 January, President Biden was sworn into office, referencing the “climate in crisis” in his Inauguration speech and saying now is “a time for boldness.” The Biden administration is already demonstrating that bold climate action will be a top priority, with two symbolic moves …

Dr. Seema Javed Tonight President Biden will be sworn into office after having run on the strongest climate platform of any incoming president, received the most votes of any incoming president, and, with the 5 January special elections in Georgia, Democrats will control the White House. All of this sets Biden …

Dr. Seema Javed “By not complying with its climate objective, France is at fault, and the State should be held responsible for that.” Amélie Fort-Besnard, rapporteur public for the Paris Administrative Court, declared today during the hearing of case whereby four French NGOs in late 2018  had launched a lawsuit againt …

Dr.Seema Javed Banks are co-responsible for the plastic pollution crisis, ignoring their customers’ outcry by indiscriminately funding the plastics supply chain. This was brought to light by Bankrolling Plastics Report , an assessment, carried out by portfolio.earth .A First ever investigation into the loans that global banks have provided to the plastics supply chain. Major banks have …

Dr.Seema Javed The year 2020 will always be referred as the year of the great pandemic in future. But while the public health emergency dominated headlines, our era’s other big headache, climate change, also found prominence in the footnotes. While the world floated into the Paris Agreement era, developing & …

Dr.Seema Javed If the world was not shaken by a global pandemic, today on 12 December2020, which marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement, we would be analysing the operationalisation of the largest such inter-governmental accord.Instead, we are looking at the economic tumult brought on by …

Dr. Seema Javed Record decrease in global CO2 emissions in 2020.Global fossil CO2 emissions are expected to decline approximately 2.4 billion tonnes of CO2 in2020 (–7%), a record drop. The decrease in emissions, caused by COVID-19 confinement measures in place and brings global fossil CO2 emissions at 34 billion tonnes …

Dr. Seema Javed  2011-2020 is the warmest decade on record, with the 2020 being the warmest year in last three years. This was revealed in the “State of the Global Climate 2020” by World Metrological Organisation(WMO). The report says that since 2015, temperatures have been rising due to climate change …

Dear Sir,  India voted for you in 2014 and again in 2019. The vote was for you and in your name. People voted only for Modi and certainly not for the BJP. In the recently concluded elections of Bihar, the people of the state voted for the BJP only on …

Jubilee News desk As poll day has almost arrived the election campaign in Bihar is getting new twists. On Tuesday the union minister Anurag Thakur borrowed from Sholey its famous dialogue. Thakur used the iconic ‘so ja bete nahi to Gabbar Singh aa jayega’ dialogue of the 1975 Bollywood blockbuster …