Climate Interviews

‘Global North not meeting financial obligations to support NAP process in developing countries’
Climate Change

‘Global North not meeting financial obligations to support NAP process in developing countries’

Akshit Sangomla
5 min read
Activist Wanun Permpibul talks about climate finance with Down To Earth as COP30 moves into a decisive phase in Belem
‘We cannot accept another slow, bureaucratic climate fund’
Climate Change

‘We cannot accept another slow, bureaucratic climate fund’

Akshit Sangomla
6 min read
Civil society leader Lidy Nacpil warns that the Loss and Damage Fund remains under-resourced, slow and inaccessible, calling for rapid-response mechanisms, fairer modalities and stronger political wil ...
‘Tax the carbon content of investments of the rich’
Climate Change

‘Tax the carbon content of investments of the rich’

Richard Mahapatra
4 min read
Economists Lucas Chancel and Cornelia Mohren, authors of ‘Climate Inequality Report 2025’, on how investments and capital of the wealthiest few fuel the world’s climate crisis
‘Reefs as we have known them will not survive anywhere’
Swapnamita C Vaideswaran
I believe Belem will be the first COP of implementation. But we also want it to be a COP of adaptation and of turnaround: André Aranha Corrêa do Lago
‘Western disturbances lingering in India till monsoon due to climate change, causing extreme rainfall in Himalayas ’
Illustration: Yogendra Anand / CSE
Supriya Sahu is additional chief secretary of environment, climate change & forests, Tamil Nadu government.
Loretta J Mickley, senior research fellow and co-lead of Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group at Harvard
‘Reducing aerosol pollution could worsen heat risks — we need policy that can handle both’
‘While 67f86% disasters are predicted, only 2% are financed in advance’
Rising climate-driven wildfires will alter how inventories calculate greenhouse gas emissions: Minal Pathak
‘More than Trump himself, quickly spreading Trumpism will be dangerous for global climate action’
The most difficult challenge in dealing with wildfires’ rising threat is to prepare for risk levels never experienced before: Kaitlyn Trudeau
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