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Your Climate Action Diary - 1

Year 2021 Week 30 Anushthatri Sharma
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Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter of important events from the world of 'climate change & action' - curated especially for you.

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Team OnePointFive Tribe

Pandemic Impact on Global Energy Consumption

The impact of coronavirus lockdowns on the energy industry, led carbon emissions to drop by 6% globally. Meanwhile, global demand for oil also took a dive as a result of the same and saw a significant 9.7% drop for oil consumption.

EU’s ‘Fit for 55’: A Transformative Agenda

The European Commission's newly released legislation plan ‘Fit for 55’ has called for its 27 member states to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030, from 1990 levels. By 2019, the EU had cut its emissions by 24% from the same 1990 levels.

Critics Raise Concern on New MoEF&CC Guidelines

Critics point out that the latest guidelines from the Union Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India aimed to prevent violations of green norms are more likely to weaken the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) regime.