India’s lighthouse tourism rises four-fold

Tourist footfalls at lighthouses along India’s sprawling 7,517-km coastline have risen by 400 percent from 400,000 tourists to 1.6 million annually in 10 years, the Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, said today.

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‘COP29 must be stand-and-deliver COP’: Simon Stiell

As over a trillion dollars was invested in climate action last year globally, a UN official affirmed that international climate finance must grow up, step up, and scale up, to ensure a transition where more countries and companies benefit, and where a…

Austria cuts CO2 emissions by 350,000 tonnes in H1-24

Austria has reduced its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by approximately 350,000 tonnes during the first half of this year, with the majority of the decrease stemming from reduced vehicle and transport use. Fuel consumption has also dropped by around 1…