Climate Change  

Asansol mayor and TMC MLA Jitendra Tiwari filed a complaint against Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Babul Supriyo alleging that he used abusive language.

BJP’s Harsh Vardhan is the incumbent minister of science and technology, minister of forest and climate change and of earth sciences. He is facing a tough fight from the Congress who has put forward their veteran leader Jai Prakash Agarwal in the fight.

The sensational revelation was made in an RTI filed by Noida based activist Rajan Tomar. The reply by central body National Tiger Conservation Authority’s (NTCA) shows how the number of tiger deaths is only increasing and no check on poaching of this endangered animal could be done. 

Climate change poses a threat to the Sundarbans and in turn to the endangered Bengal tiger. A professor, Laurance, at the James Cook University in Australia said that there are fewer than 4,000 Bengal tigers alive on the planet.
 

India said that the Paris climate agreement was "non-negotiable" and there could be no compromise on the basic principles of CBDR-RC at the ministerial session of the UN Climate Conference in Katowice, Poland

India is the sixth largest producer of renewable energy, and fifth largest producer of solar energy in the world, Swaraj said at the high level meeting on climate change at UN General Assembly