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  

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

Elephant teeth: How they evolved to cope with climate change-driven dietary shifts

20 million years ago, proboscidean teeth looked completely different

Simply Put: Climate Roulette

Climate change in urban Nigeria — 4 factors that affect how residents adapt

Poverty drives vulnerability to climate risk in different ways

Warsaw Climate Talks into Extra Time

Bolivia and Nararu representing AOSIS, supports Fiji and G77+China.

Modified by climate

Global warming has resulted in genetic alternations among living beings

15 countries join alliance to phase out coal at COP23

Big users of coal and coal-based energy have not signed up yet 

Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts

Hospital infrastructure has not been adapted to secure health care during such events.

Climate change may cause 160,000 deaths in India every year by 2050

Impact on food supply could be one of the most important consequences of climate change

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COM2024: Climate financing hurdles take centrestage at African economic ministers’ conference

Some of the home-grown financing solutions that some African countries have already started embracing include carbon trading

Climate disaster movies resonate in ways that news never will

As we face the escalating challenges of climate catastrophe, embracing diverse and emotionally engaging storytelling in mainstream media becomes …

Why climate change is making it harder to monitor marine pollution

Warming of oceans means that the plants and organisms used as warning systems for pollution are being rendered ineffective

Global climate finance flows for 2015-16 increased by 17%: UN report

The report highlights that a large part of climate finance continues to go towards efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions

Is Earth Close to “The Great Dying”?

Our “normal” climate is dead; the weather has gone insane, and it is annually killing thousands of Americans and millions of people …

The eco collapse we were warned about has begun

This accumulation of tragic evidence, against all the denialist narratives, makes it undeniable that the climate crisis is already here, among us

Holistic approach makes agrarian systems more climate-resilient: Study

Initial watershed development interventions in the studied areas intensified agriculture, but led to declining groundwater tables and …

In pics: Sea ingress has left this Odisha coastal town a shell of its former self

The marching sea has taken a toll on Podampeta’s agriculture and fishing communities through rapid sea ingress and consequent cyclones. Now, …

COP27 diary (November 12): ‘US won't support legal structures for loss and damage liabilities’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit 

Run up to COP27: Only a quarter of global climate finance flows into Asia; much of that in loan

India received a total of $37.1 billion in climate finance during 2013-2020

IPCC’s new report on climate change is a call to action

The latest IPCC report confirms that we can no longer lose time in prevarication or in finding new excuses not to act, including empty promises …

Green bonds and greener environment: Are they linked?

Green bonds, in particular, may play a key role in the forthcoming economic recovery and may help India achieve the SDGs

CoP18, Doha: An assessment A Gateway that leads nowhere

For the past 20 years, the world has been haggling about who will cut greenhouse gas emissions and how much.