Déjà vu: Will Chennai see a repeat of 2015 deluge?
Chennai received 215 mm rainfall November 7, the second-highest 24-hour rainfall during the decade
Water wastage by coal power plants: India needs regulatory oversight, protocol for water audits
Needs uniform format for reporting water consumption data and a protocol for its monitoring and verification through mandatory third-party water …
Voluntary carbon markets need integrity as much as growth
Task force launched by United Nations Climate Finance envoy must widen its task
2020 Climate Targets: The Paris Agreement legally requires better targets this year
Climate justice can grow out of science and law, but it requires political leadership to take these twin dictates seriously
#FridaysForFuture: Students demand climate action
Inspired by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, thousands of youth from across the globe hit the streets
Carbon dioxide emissions in the United States spiked in 2018: study
Emissions surged because of more use of air travel, freight transport by road, burning of fuel oil in winter and increase in the number of …
Why world cannot afford a 2°C rise
The climate change goal must be fixed at 1.5°C so that we get a chance to avert the worst impacts
Paris Agreement inches closer to entry into force this year
Thirty-one countries deposit their instruments of accession with the UN Secretary General, 14 more pledge to join Paris Agreement
Why Brexit is bad news for climate change
EU had some of the most progressive policies on cutting greenhouse gas emissions but post-exit UK will likely roll back some of these in order to …
No way forward in climate negotiations
Developed and developing countries agree to disagree as climate negotiations hit a stalemate in Paris
US Congress passes tribal sovereignty act
Law will restore Native American leaders’ control over employee-employer relations on American-Indian lands
Why the budget must focus on rural India
India is staring at a rural economic crisis. If the budget does not spend on rural India, the nation’s growth will be badly impacted
Bonn: Developing countries push for adaptation to be included in Paris agreement
Differences between developed and developing countries continue to mar progress of negotiations
Findings of Economic Survey 2015 are cause for worry
Climate Emergency CoP 25: New proposal by CoP Presidency will undermine next round of climate targets
The lack of accountability for past under-performance has consequences
Fighting climate change: Why we need more policy experts, green jobs in India
We cannot leave the creation of green jobs to the future; they need to be created now
The next round of climate targets will worsen the crisis
Countries need to announce new 1.5 degrees Celsius-compliant targets in 2020
After Paris, UK's latest 'carbon budget' just isn't ambitious enough
British people will still be able to emit 60% more than their fair share
'Paris Agreement signing would mark critical global efforts to address climate change'
In a couple of days, the Paris Agreement document will be open for signatures by states
Ocean heatwaves likely to increase as planet warms: study
Marine heawaves have already become longer-lasting and more frequent, extensive and intense and this trend is likely to accelerate under further …
Climate Emergency CoP 25: India’s mixed role
India continued to push developed countries on climate action but played a less-than-constructive role on other issues
UNEP production gap report: Net-zero targets by countries are empty pledges without plans
Governments are planning to produce more than double the production of fossil fuels than what the world requires to limit global temperature rise …
No new coal by 2021: Zimbabwe, South Africa may become outliers, flags report
The two southern African countries have new coal projects in the pipeline amid clamour to move away from coal to cleaner fuel
El Niño not solely responsible for poor monsoon
This season, parts of India witnessed one of the driest monsoon spells
Trash crisis in Lebanon, protests turn violent
Protests that started over garbage dump and shortage of landfills evolved into demonstrations against the government