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

Stockholm+50: The DTE compendium

Make trade work for climate

EU’s carbon border tax won’t take us towards a cooperative world required to combat climate change

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?

Just 3 of every 1,000 queries in Lok Sabha during last 2 decades on climate change: Study

Most of the MPs who asked questions were based in Maharashtra (181), Andhra Pradesh (105), Tamil Nadu (99), Uttar Pradesh (98) and Kerala (69)

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 …

Simply Put: CoP26 demands justice

Climate change: What should be the Agenda at COP26 Glasgow? Sunita Narain explains

New US climate pledge: Cut emissions 50% this decade, but can Biden make it happen?

Industrial reality is the chief concern: Cutting emissions by half within a decade implies transforming the electricity system, transportation, …

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

COP27: The need for “New Collective Quantified Goal” in Climate Finance

Global South is spending five times more on debt repayments than on addressing the climate crisis's impacts  

Simply Put: Achieving net zero

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 …