Debt crisis and gap in affordable climate finance in focus at IMF, World Bank meeting
Spring Meetings 2023 took place from April 10-16, 2023 in Washington DC
World’s 60 largest banks pumped $5.5 trillion into fossil fuels after the Paris Agreement: Report
$673 billion spent on fossil fuel financing in just 2022; clean energy finance has been largely stagnant
Climate Crisis: Increased evidence of maladaptation, says IPCC Synthesis Report
India has many examples of maladaptation, making vulnerable communities becoming more helpless to climate impact
Ants can’t alter behaviour to deal with warmer climate: Report
Heat stress on the insects will mean higher metabolism and food demands along with a shorter lifespan
Climate change can be beaten — Why some scientists are hopeful
Kofoworola Belo-Osagie talks to scientists to share the reasons that give them hope inspite of climate change
Stockholm syndrome: What should ‘+50’ be about
The 50th anniversary celebration of the Stockholm conference should be about our common future, not the divisions of the past
Stockholm+50: Is science for just solutions
If science-policy interfaces are to deliver just and effective solutions to climate change, they must involve indigenous peoples and local communities
Embrace disruption and keep walking the green way
Too much time has been wasted in looking for answers that are convenient, not real
COP27 diary (November 9): $2 trillion needed to finance climate action in developing economies
A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit
COP27: African countries launch ‘game-changing’ carbon credits initiative
Target to provide 300 million carbon credits every year by 2030
COP27: Non-state actors can’t destroy the environment, yet claim to be net zero, says report
Businesses, financial institutions, cities and regions must ensure that their operations don’t contribute to deforestation, peatland loss …
50 years since Stockholm conference: The summer lingers
That we still seek the Stockholm declaration’s ideals only shows how we need to up our game to prevent the planet’s environmental crisis
Loss and damage from climate crisis needs urgent intervention from rich countries: UN chief
Comments in light of Pakistan floods; Guterres urges G20 nations to up climate adaptation financing, emissions reduction targets
Environment Performance Index: Yale counters India’s claim that report was based on unscientific methods
India, last on Environment Performance Index 2022, was faring poorly since 2016
Stockholm+50: Little to cheer
The Stockholm Conference of 1972 had put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. Today, over 176 countries have …
IPCC’s missing pathways to real climate solutions
A gender transformative and rights-based policy approach to climate modelling is needed
DTE launches annual ‘State of India’s Environment In Figures’
Annual book comes ahead of Environment Day & amid Stockholm+50
Least Developed Countries want major emitters, G20 to increase climate efforts
The bottom of the economic pyramid is keen for progress on climate finance, loss and damage, global adaptation goal
Climate justice, now: Latest IPCC report just told us why we need that
IPCC’s latest climate report provides evidence that climate-justice needs to be at the centre of global policymaking
Will climate action be a casualty?
Have we learnt the lessons on the impact of burning fossil fuels yet?
Union Budget 2022-23 talks up energy transition but moves little funds
Blank R&D column sticks out as sore reminder of what could have been achieved
October 2021 was the third-warmest in 142 years
October 2021 was only 0.04°C cooler than October 2015 and 2019
CoP26: How India is paving the way towards climate action
India’s adaptation efforts have been shouldered through afforestation activities, wetland management, compensatory afforestation, etc
Climate crisis: Heads of least developed countries call for equitable action ahead of COP26
Climate finance, focus on adaptation and enhanced climate ambition are among key priorities laid out by representatives of 46 LDCs for COP 26&…
Survey highlights gap between climate emergency perception, action in India
73% Indians are optimistic about avoiding climate crisis in their lifetime according to a survey by Epson; 4.1% don’t believe there is a …
