Benefits of climate adaptation far outweigh costs
The world can accrue net benefits worth $7.1 trillion by spending $1.8 trillion on climate adaptation, according to latest Global Commission on …
Issues at stake in COP 22
The COP summit in Marrakech may be crucial for negotiations on some long-standing issues at the UNFCCC
A new kind of climate leadership
Today’s climate and environmental movements lack a diversity of perspectives and people, and don’t acknowledge or adequately value …
Planting forests no panacea for the climate crisis: IPCC
The IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land says land-based carbon sinks are not limitless
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 …
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 …
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
The painful transition
Bali hearing?
Response to climate change is critical as risk of disease outbreaks grows
As East Africa becomes warmer, the threat of climate sensitive diseases such as malaria, Rift Valley Fever and cholera is increasing
Climate Fund approves 10 low-carbon projects with an investment of $745 million
The latest round of funding takes investment from the agency past the $1-billion mark
All TALK, VERY LITTLE ACTION
Facing disasters: lessons from a Bangladeshi island
To save lives, resiliency plans must understand how locals in climate-vulnerable places assess risk.
Agriculture census will help Asia-Pacific countries achieve zero hunger challenge
Agricultural censuses are sources of structural information that, through comparison at different points of time, can contribute to the …
South Asia
Sunita Narain ‘national climate leader’ from India for 2019
Non-profit Climate Scorecard's first National Climate Leader awardee list published in Global Spotlight Report #22
Climate emergency CoP 25: Circumventing climate action
What should be done, now that the longest CoP is over
Greta, 15 other children filed a UN complaint against 5 countries. Here's what it'll achieve
Whether or not the petitioners are successful, the mere act of filing the complaint has already brought the matter into the public eye
Germany to provide Rs 720 crore loan to flood-hit Kerala
The amount would be used to promote climate-resilient transport infrastructure. Besides, a Rs 24 crore grant for international expertise in the …
How Africa can benefit from Earth observation technologies
The first Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa Forum explores innovations and sustainable development using Earth …
Rich nations unwilling to respect UNFCCC principles at Bonn talks
Different elements including means of implementation, equity and adaptation being interpreted against the spirit of UNFCCC by developed countries
On the edge
By 2050, India will experience a temperature rise of 1-4°C and rainfall will increase by 9-16 per cent. This will have a detrimental effect …
Strengthening adaptation must to protect human health in face of climate change
During the Second Global Conference on Health & Climate, participants warned that without adequate mitigation and adaptation, climate change …
