From Africa, with will
For the first time, African countries flagged off urbanisation as a factor impacting climate change at the recently held Africa Carbon Forum …
'We have to use the Paris Agreement for a strong agenda forward'
Sweden will pass a law next year to become carbon-neutral by 2045. Eva Svedling, the State Secretary to the Minister for International …
Sweden against Climate Change: In Conversation with Eva Svedling, State Secretary
Eva Svedling is the State Secretary to the Minister for International Development. Cooperation and Climate Isabella Lövin. Lövin is …
Defunding environment programmes in US will affect the world
The Energy Star Programme, which has prevented 2.8 billion tonnes of GHG emissions, is being defunded
On road to resilience
Systematically improving micro-climate at a local level and not depending on global processes could help create a climate-resilient society
Remote Sensing: the biggest tool to study climate change
Jadu Dash is a professor of remote sensing at the faculty of social, human and mathematical sciences within geography and environment at the …
Climate change blamed for anthrax outbreak in north Russia
A total of 72 nomadic herders have been hospitalised in the town of Salekhard in the Arctic Circle
Parched hills
Women are the worst sufferers of the water crisis in Uttarakhand. Why are the hills going dry?
Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Sunita Narain
Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Sunita Narain on his new book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Limiting HFCs should not be a burden on the developing world
Developing countries should guard against a weak phase-down of the super-warming hydrofluorocarbons in the ongoing Montreal Protocol
Can it be different this time?
Can developing countries find a way to get an ambitious and equitable outcome at the negotiations for the HFC phase-down amendment to the …
Green Climate Fund and other updates in climate finance
Progress on climate finance remains slow with insuficient funds and delay in implementation
Plan of inaction
How the US president sold an unambitious plan to clean the power sector as historical
A musician's Yantra
Violinist-turned-environmentalist Aubrey Meyer has coined the phrase "contraction and convergence" and set the world thinking on the lines of …
‘Attribution studies help increase awareness about links between human activities and climate change’
Down To Earth talks to Wenxia Zhang, author of paper on attribution of extreme heat & drought events in 2022 at COP28
COP27 diary (November 17): Details on loss and damage facility, phasing out coal missing from ‘Cover Decision’ draft
A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit
PM’s climate change council has not met in almost 7 years
Who is, then, advising the PM for his climate goal announcements?
High road to Dubai COP28: Here is how Global Stocktake talks fared in week 1 at Bonn
Adaptation, finance and pre-2020 implementation gap highlighted at Bonn Climate Conference
Rural women have resilience to cope with climate risks: study
Women use creative ways to manage food and nutrition security in their households in lean months, shows an ongoing study in Faizabad, Uttar …
CSE projections show world is on a temperature path of more than 3 degrees
With the US and EU misappropriating more than their fair share of carbon budgets, Asia and Africa will have very little space for growth after …
Warsaw climate talks: Farm emissions kept out of COP 19
G77+China successfully counter move by EU to add agriculture as a source of emissions for purpose of accounting
Rewilding Tasmania with emus will be good for the island state’s ecosystems
Why did the Tasmanian emus go extinct and should we reintroduce them?
Study finds land availability limited to achieve biodiversity targets and apply climate mitigation strategy
Commitment of 120 million sq km for land-based carbon dioxide removal potentially conflicts with “30x30” target
November 2023 was warmest November on record globally, 1.75°C warmer than pre-industrial era: Copernicus
2023 officially warmest year in recorded history
Heatwaves arrive early in 2023; hit 11 states from March 3 to April 18
22 states/UTs recorded above-normal maximum temperature on April 18, 2023