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View: India’s food security is being choked by climate change

  2023-07-25 in Business News Today: Read Latest Business news, India Business News Live, Share Market & Economy News | The Economic Times

India's vulnerable food security is under threat due to climate change as the country experiences volatile cycles of droughts and flooding. Although the country is experiencing only slightly above-average rainfall, the fluctuation of precipitation varies drastically across different regions and is destabilising crops. Recently, heavy rainfall damaged newly planted crops meaning that India suspended non-basmati varieties of rice exports, causing rice prices to rise.

  Tagged under: India | Drought

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Plan on table to halt new coal-fired power plants

  2021-12-25 (or before) in Business News Today: Read Latest Business news, India Business News Live, Share Market & Economy News | The Economic Times

At the UN climate change summit COP26 in Glasgow last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India's aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070 and also pledged to attain 500 GW of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030.

  Tagged under: India | COP26 | Coal | Climate Change | Net Zero | Electricity

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