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?
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
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 …
Only 10 of 46 Least Developed Countries mention loss and damage explicitly in NDCs: Study
IIED urges countries to revise their NDCs before CoP27 and mention losses and damages
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
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?
More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: The world’s climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news
Especially troubling is the unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019
Globally, 9 million girls face extreme risks of climate disaster and child marriage every year: Report
The combination of threats has created emergency hotspots for girls’ rights in Bangladesh and across sub-Saharan Africa
Himalayan meltdown: Hindu Kush Himalayan region warming faster than global average
Capping global warming at 1.5°C will still mean a higher rate for the region through this century
COP24: Negotiators happy to agree on the basics, but not on long-term vision
With the final Katowice decision yet to come, it is unlikely that longer term issues will be addressed here
COP24: BASIC willingness to be transparent must bring Katowice consensus closer
At COP24, developing countries agreed to report on climate actions on par with developed countries
Climate solutions must be gender responsive
Women in developing countries are more vulnerable to floods and storms owing to their socially constructed roles
Climate emergency: Extreme weather events in Australia to get more frequent, intense
Report says extreme heat, heavy rainfall and coastal inundation, fire weather and drought expected to get worse
COP27: ‘Translation between change in weather and damages is not linear’
Down To Earth talks to Friederike Otto, climate scientist at Imperial College London about the science of weather attribution