Enhancing climate action every five years, informed by periodical progress and identifying new opportunities for action, is a fundamental premise of the Paris Agreement on climate change
The 2018 facilitative dialogue for stocktaking exercises on climate change is called the Talanoa Dialogue.
The dialogue will assess global progress towards meeting the Paris long-term goals.
It will also highlight opportunities to step up action, and help spur countries to move forward on enhancing their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) by 2020.
This dialogue will be launched as a pivotal change, with a new momentum to drive the investment and action needed to achieve a climate resilient future.
India’s State Action plan on Climate Change
India’s State Action Plan on Climate Change is implemented by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change.
It supports the integration of national climate change goals into subnational policies.
India has committed to meet its current target of 33% reduction in emission intensity of the 2005 level by 2030, by generating 40% of its energy from renewables.
States are important for the realisation of this goal and they are considered as Sub national modules.
The Under2Coalition, a MoU by subnational governments to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions towards net-zero by 2050, is generating a unique precedent for bold climate leadership, with its member states and regions surpassing 200 in number.
Currently, Telangana and Chhattisgarh are signatories to this pact from India.
ISRO’s 100th satellite
India is likely to launch ISRO’s its indigenously built 100th satellite along with 30 others in a single mission.
31 spacecrafts, including weather observation Cartosat-2 series satellite, will be launched by PSLV-C40
Cartosats are earth observation satellites indigenously build in India.
It will be launched from the first launch pad of the SatishDhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
1stPIO Parliamentarian Conference
The 1st PIO(Persons of Indian Origin) Parliamentarian Conference was held in New Delhi.
This conference was hosted by the Ministry of External affairs.
PIOs are honoured through this conference as have an important position in the Action Agenda till 2020, drafted by the NITI Aayog.
Parliamentarians of Indian Origin from over 20 Democracies of the World gathered to share Parliamentary best practices and mutually enrich each other with their experiences.
Equal pay at workplace
Iceland becomes the first country to legalise equal pay at workplace
Iceland imposed a new law under which all kinds of firms will have to prove that they pay equally to all their employees, irrespective of gender
Akash Missile
Recently Indian army planned to procure Akash Missiles.
Akash was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.
It is indigenously developed short-range surface-to-air missile (SR SAM) with a range of 25 km.
It can simultaneously engage multiple targets in all weather conditions and has a large operational envelope from a low altitude of 30 metres to a maximum of up to 20 km.
