Equity remains absent from draft climate change agreement

Draft is a disappointment for developing countries like India which have been asking developed nations to take greater responsibility for their …

US senators introduce bipartisan bill to tackle ‘super pollutants’

A Democrat and a Republican senator have together proposed legislation to cut short-lived pollutants like black carbon, methane and HFCs

Africa Climate Summit: Youth and children demand climate justice, call for action now

Africa Youth Climate Assembly emphasises need for collaborative and immediate action in a declaration, reflects urgency echoed in …

Paris finance meet: Momentum builds for polluter taxes to fund green transition

Panellists discuss shipping and airline levies, financial transaction taxes and fossil fuel taxes at Pact Summit

Rich nations finally delivered on $100 billion climate finance pledge in 2022, finds OECD report; experts flag issues

Target met two years late, loans making up much of the financial flow

Without a longer-term view, the Paris Agreement will lock in warming for centuries

Oceans will continue to warm from the top down, even if no further emissions are made

COP24: Sum and substance of climate diplomacy

Climate change negotiations must move from being a zero-sum game to a positive-sum game

Slow, uneven progress at Bangkok climate talks

Finance, equity and addressing interlinkages remain topics of major concern

‘Zombie fires’ in the Arctic: Canada’s extreme wildfire season offers a glimpse of new risks in a warmer, drier future

As global temperatures rise, fires are also spreading farther north and into the Arctic

Ground report: Climate disasters in Bihar, UP make children more vulnerable to trafficking

Trafficking rackets use climate disasters as opportunities, say experts

Greece passes first climate law

The law envisages decommissioning all lignite / coal plants by 2028 

Loss and damage in climate negotiation

An issue of delayed climate justice

Historical burden

Loss and Damaged: Who suffers most from extreme weather events?

While all regions have incurred losses due to extreme weather events, developed countries remain the least affected and most insured from the shocks

CoP26 first draft not good enough; climate finance grossly insufficient: Climate scientist Saleemul Huq

Saleemul Haq, director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh, speaks to DTE on CoP26 progress and performance

Local knowledge refined with tech & funds can help climate adaptation in Asia-Pacific: IFAD

Digital mapping along with local knowledge can be useful to identify climate-vulnerable hotspots

More children believe in climate emergency than adults in G20 countries, UNDP survey finds

Conservation of forest land and transition to renewable sources of energy were among policies that received the most approval

Since 62% Sub-Saharan Africans have no access to power, the area is uniquely suited to renewables

Since Sub-Saharan Africa is largely off grid, it has great opportunity to skip installing fossil fuel-based power generation infrastructure and …

India is under the weather: extreme events expand footprints

From cloudburst in Himachal, dust storms in Rajasthan and UP to lightning in Andhra Pradesh and devastating rainfall in Haryana and Punjab, freak …

COP 22: more than 20 nations sign framework agreement on International Solar Alliance

International Solar Alliance is an initiative by India wherein 121 solar resource-rich countries have come together

COP22: opening session on agriculture discusses climate adaptation, food security

Developing countries, especially from Africa, voiced the need to mobilise finance from developed countries

New study reveals impact of climate change on pollination

Flowers are fast losing their capacity to produce fragrance due to global warming, and this is affectinig the process of pollination

Climate change is real & world needs real leadership to fight it

WATCH: As President Joe Biden readies his climate summit for Earth Day, Sunita Narain spells out why and how the US and the …

Climate talks: INDCs and the role of land use

Though some countries have emphasised on land-use change and forestry in their contributions, their commitments don’t seem to be ambitious …

COP24: Developing world continues to seek funds for agriculture

Nations participating in the conference discussed climate change impacts on agriculture at a workshop in Katowice