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Conference of the Parties (COP)
COP 29
Climate Change
Bonn Climate Conference 2025: Inside the Baku to Belem Roadmap consultations on climate finance
Archie Gupta
30 Jun 2025
4 min read
Climate Change
Countries gather in Seville for FfD4 Conference. It is a pivotal moment for global development finance
Sehr Raheja
28 Jun 2025
4 min read
Climate Change
Bonn Climate Conference 2025: Just Transition Work Programme sees divide between justice and transition
Rudrath Avinashi
21 Jun 2025
3 min read
Climate Change
Baku to Belem roadmap: Countries diverge on how to mobilise $1.3 trillion climate finance
Upamanyu Das
11 Jun 2025
5 min read
Climate Change
Economic Survey 2024-25 highlights lack of climate finance for adaptation
Akshit Sangomla
31 Jan 2025
4 min read
Climate Change
Green banks’ coalition goes bust: Biggest American fossil funders exit Net Zero alliance
Sehr Raheja
31 Jan 2025
5 min read
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COP 28
Climate Change
Bonn Climate Conference 2025: Diverging views stall UAE Dialogue on implementing Global Stocktake outcomes
Kirat Kaur
02 Jul 2025
3 min read
Climate Change
WHO renews call on India to join COP28 climate health pledge amid severe Delhi pollution
Jayanta Basu
26 Nov 2024
3 min read
Air
A landmark decision
Anumita Roychowdhury
30 Oct 2024
8 min read
Climate Change
Globally, climate policies becoming more gender-responsive: UN analysis
Madhumita Paul
09 Oct 2024
3 min read
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COP 27
Climate Change
Wealthy nations wrestle over seats on Loss and Damage Board, causing delays in fully operationalising Fund
Rohini Krishnamurthy
23 Feb 2024
4 min read
Climate Change
COP28: A key negotiation highlights countries’ challenges with scaling up mitigation ambition
Trishant Dev
02 Dec 2023
3 min read
Climate Change
Funding Loss & Damage: Differences persist as COP28 looms
Tamanna Sengupta
26 Sep 2023
4 min read
Governance
Libya floods 2023: Why the Loss and Damage fund should be operationalised equitably
Akshit Sangomla
13 Sep 2023
6 min read
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COP 26
Climate Change
DTE Exclusive: Adaptation Fund head ‘discouraged & worried’ on not receiving adequate funds at COP28
Jayanta Basu
06 Dec 2023
4 min read
Climate Change
COP28 Recap: What was discussed at the Mitigation Work Programme?
Avantika Goswami
05 Jan 2024
3 min read
Climate Change
Climate action: Meet to approve IPCC Synthesis Report begins in Switzerland
Rohini Krishnamurthy
13 Mar 2023
3 min read
Energy
Why hydrogen vs battery debate doesn’t need a winner: Understanding the emissions from ‘zero-emission vehicles’
Shubham Srivastava
19 Dec 2022
4 min read
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COP 25
Climate Change
Centre constitutes committee for implementation of 2015 Paris Agreement
Akshit Sangomla
30 Nov 2020
2 min read
Climate Change
Climate Emergency CoP 25: A failure on key deliverables
Tarun Gopalakrishnan
16 Dec 2019
5 min read
Climate Change
Climate Emergency CoP 25: Decent outcome on 2020 Ambition
Tarun Gopalakrishnan
17 Dec 2019
3 min read
Climate Change
Climate Emergency CoP 25: Madrid, the longest CoP ever, ends in disappointment
Akshit Sangomla
15 Dec 2019
4 min read
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COP 24
Climate Change
When did CO2 become our planet's arch enemy?
Shrutikantha Kandali
15 Jun 2020
3 min read
Climate Change
Getting Amazon to pay its taxes could be Jeff Bezos’ biggest climate action
Kapil Subramanian
20 Feb 2020
5 min read
Climate Change
Climate Emergency CoP 25: New proposal by CoP Presidency will undermine next round of climate targets
Tarun Gopalakrishnan
14 Dec 2019
2 min read
Climate Change
Climate Emergency CoP 25: UN member states continue to default on payments
Tarun Gopalakrishnan
02 Dec 2019
2 min read
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COP 23
Agriculture
COP27: Agriculture finally on table; beware of greenwashing though, warn experts
Shagun
07 Nov 2022
4 min read
Climate Change
BASIC ministers pledge support for robust and fair rule book on Paris Agreement
Vijeta Rattani
21 May 2018
3 min read
Climate Change
Push for gender equality at COP23, Gender Action Plan adopted
Aakriti Shrivastava
16 Nov 2017
3 min read
Climate Change
Climate negotiations and the invisible hand of carbon chaos
Rabiya Jaffery
01 Dec 2017
4 min read
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COP 22
Climate Change
Climate-induced loss and damage continues to be neglected globally
Vijeta Rattani
14 Oct 2017
4 min read
Climate Change
Muted presence
Vijeta Rattani
30 Nov 2016
6 min read
Climate Change
Cabinet gives nod to ratify Doha amendment of Kyoto Protocol
Vijeta Rattani
24 Jan 2017
2 min read
Climate Change
Countries will move forward on climate change even without Trump’s support: US envoy
Shreeshan Venkatesh
15 Nov 2016
3 min read
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COP 21
Climate Change
COP28 Recap: What was finally decided in the Global Stocktake?
Tamanna Sengupta
06 Jan 2024
3 min read
Climate Change
Temperatures crossed 1.5°C for the whole of 2023; last month hottest January on record, say EU scientists
Rajat Ghai
07 Feb 2024
2 min read
Energy
Four agreements signed at meet organised by International Solar Alliance
Pratha Jhawar
08 Sep 2020
3 min read
Climate Change
Summary of Side Event
DTE Staff
03 Dec 2019
2 min read
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COP 20
Climate Change
Factsheet: What to expect at Peru
DTE Staff
29 Nov 2019
1 min read
Climate Change
‘India could achieve its 2030 climate targets’
DTE Staff
09 Nov 2017
2 min read
Climate Change
No action, just a war of words at COP 21
Vijeta Rattani
04 Dec 2015
2 min read
Environment
India’s climate strategy needs revision
Sunita Narain
31 Dec 2014
4 min read
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COP 19
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Parties to CITES urged to take stringent steps on jaguar, big cat conservation
Himanshu Nitnaware
10 Nov 2023
3 min read
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Pau Brasil: CITES COP19 rejects proposal to include Brazil’s national tree in Appendix I
Himanshu Nitnaware
28 Nov 2022
3 min read
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Simply Put: Race to extinction
DTE Staff
28 Nov 2022
1 min read
Wildlife & Biodiversity
CITES COP19 proposes budget of $150,000 for Big Cat Task Force
Shuchita Jha
26 Nov 2022
2 min read
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COP 18
Climate Change
Stocktaking by CoP18 President, December 7, 2012
DTE Staff
30 Nov 2019
3 min read
Climate Change
CoP18, Doha: An assessment A Gateway that leads nowhere
Sunita Narain
30 Nov 2019
4 min read
Climate Change
Doha Getaway: World on line for new regime, US on track to escape
Indrajit Bose
30 Nov 2019
3 min read
Climate Change
Doha outcome adopted. US reserves its right to walk out later
Indrajit Bose
30 Nov 2019
3 min read
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COP 17
Wildlife & Biodiversity
CITES COP19 urges parties to remove references to pangolins from ‘official pharmacopoeia’
Himanshu Nitnaware
23 Nov 2022
2 min read
Climate Change
Of stances, tactics and country positions
DTE Staff
03 Dec 2019
2 min read
Climate Change
India's agenda on the table at Durban
DTE Staff
03 Dec 2019
2 min read
Climate Change
The final outcome of the Durban Conference on Climate Change
DTE Staff
03 Dec 2019
3 min read
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COP 16
Wildlife & Biodiversity
DTE Coverage: How CBD COP16 unfolded
Vibha Varshney
22 Nov 2024
6 min read
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Towards a fair share
Vibha Varshney
19 Nov 2024
19 min read
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Agreement on implementing Article 8(j) special for world’s indigenous peoples: Luis Guillermo Izquierdo Mora
Vibha Varshney
16 Nov 2024
3 min read
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Papua New Guinea’s rainforests in danger; illegal logging crises fuel human rights abuses and threaten biodiversity
Shimali Chauhan
03 Nov 2024
3 min read
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COP 15
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Monsoon session of Parliament to decide fate of Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill
Vibha Varshney
21 Jul 2023
2 min read
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Merely designating an area as protected not enough, says Princeton study; here is why
Vibha Varshney
06 Jun 2023
3 min read
Wildlife & Biodiversity
‘OECMs are a win-win for conservation and community’
Rohini Krishnamurthy
27 Feb 2023
5 min read
Wildlife & Biodiversity
Are millets safe from biopiracy?
Vibha Varshney
02 Jan 2023
3 min read
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COP 14
Climate Change
Press conference of the delegation of the United States
DTE Staff
03 Dec 2019
1 min read
Climate Change
Climate equity is in, but what is out
DTE Staff
03 Dec 2019
7 min read
Climate Change
Designed for developing
DTE Staff
03 Dec 2019
7 min read
Climate Change
Cost of mitigation: How cheap can it be
DTE Staff
03 Dec 2019
4 min read
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COP 13
Climate Change
The hockey-stick curve
DTE Staff
30 Nov 2019
1 min read
COP 12
Climate Change
Unknown Future
DTE Staff
30 Nov 2019
1 min read
COP 11
Science & Technology
Why the world is worried about this new biotechnology
Richard Mahapatra
28 Nov 2018
4 min read
Environment
Forests brushed aside
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
31 Oct 2012
3 min read
Environment
Biosafety issues get a push
Latha Jishnu
31 Oct 2012
3 min read
Environment
Reluctant funding
Latha Jishnu
30 Oct 2012
12 min read
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COP 10
Environment
www.organicconsumers.org/
DTE Staff
15 Apr 2002
1 min read
Environment
Slow to share
DTE Staff
30 Apr 2006
4 min read
Environment
Legal aliens
DTE Staff
14 Oct 2010
1 min read
Environment
Undone
Clifford Polycarp
05 Jan 2012
15 min read
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COP 09
Climate Change
A Call for Developing Country Leadership
DTE Staff
30 Nov 2019
3 min read
Climate Change
The Kyoto Protocol - Battlefield of Hegemonic Struggles in World Politics
DTE Staff
30 Nov 2019
3 min read
Climate Change
The KP Game
DTE Staff
30 Nov 2019
3 min read
Climate Change
Climate Change Negotiations: from New Delhi to Milan
DTE Staff
30 Nov 2019
3 min read
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COP 08
Environment
Dual purpose served
DTE Staff
15 Apr 2001
1 min read
Environment
Local lessons
Nidhi Jamwal
31 May 2002
2 min read
COP 07
Climate Change
George Bush: "I oppose the Kyoto Protocol"
DTE Staff
29 Nov 2019
4 min read
Climate Change
All gas
DTE Staff
29 Nov 2019
1 min read
Climate Change
Melting to extinction
DTE Staff
29 Nov 2019
2 min read
Climate Change
Modified by climate
DTE Staff
29 Nov 2019
2 min read
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COP 06
Environment
Rotterdam Convention meet: no consensus on including herbicide paraquat in the prior informed consent list
Soma Basu
11 May 2013
4 min read
Environment
India reverses stand on asbestos at Rotterdam Convention meet
Soma Basu
09 May 2013
4 min read
COP 05
Environment
India reverses stand on asbestos at Rotterdam Convention meet
Soma Basu
09 May 2013
4 min read
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