INDIA WINS ROUND II AT COP

THE UNITED NATIONS (UN)has said that the world is speeding down a “highway to hell” amidst the poor progress in the climate crisis, which is perhaps, the biggest challenge of the 21st century.

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 An irony at the United Nations climate summit in Egypt was the parade of petroleum-fuel guzzling private jets of the global elite. Another, if anticipated, sophistry was the tirade by leaders of rich nations about the consequences of using fossil fuels, after having been the prime consumer of most of the earth’s resources of coal, oil and natural gas.