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In the first phase, the pilot will be conducted in Haryana, MP, Maharashtra, Nagaland and KarnatakaThis project will eventually cover all such landscapes

The agreement will give ISA a juridical personality and gives it power to contract, acquire and dispose of movable and immovable properties as well as to institute and defend legal proceedings

The challenge requires an unprecedented response at the international level. But with the US relinquishing leadership, a global agreement is unlikely

The study said that results about India are in contrast to other countries, such as China where measurements have shown increasing emissions of the greenhouse gas in recent years

By launching International Solar Alliance, India signalled it would use it as a foreign policy tool to cement leadership among developing countries

Modi govt has been working towards providing a clean environment to the people of India and we are doing it out of our own conviction, says Union minister for power, coal, mines, new and renewable energy Piyush Goyal

The government said that the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by India will encourage other developing countries also to undertake this exercise

Experts say focus now shift to the implementation of the Paris climate deal

The decision to ratify the accord reached last year underlines India's commitment to the cause of environmental protection, says former environment minister Javadekar

So far 17 statesmainly small island and low-lying coastal countries that are especially vulnerable to the sea-level risehave ratified the deal