We will keep moving forward on climate action: UNFCCC after Trump’s executive order
Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa says the new US administration remains a Party to the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement
Sea level changes that occurred 6,000 years ago may happen again; Southeast Asia at risk
Natural causes can further aggravate the effects of rise in sea level combined with human-assisted climate change
Muted presence
India's participation at the recently concluded 22nd Conference of Parties was passive and lacked vision
COP 22: US must respect climate change commitments, says French President
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hoped that climate action will be implemented with swiftness and special focus on equity and justice
‘Human influence behind warmer and bigger Indo-Pacific warm pool'
A new study shows that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions have led to the warming of the Indo-Pacific warm pool which can cause changes in …
Does tourism really suffer at sites listed as World Heritage In Danger?
Three other famous tourist destinations have also been in the spotlight of the World Heritage Committee, with little indication that this has …
Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement starts functioning in Bonn
The working group's mandate, among others, is to elaborate on modalities and make critical arrangements on global stock take which will take …
Is the US on a bilateral agreement spree over climate change?
USA and China have entered into a bilateral pact to sign the Paris Agreement on April 22
Climate change is the most impactful risk in 2016: World Economic Forum
Climate change will also aggravate water and agriculture crises, conflicts and forced migration
Taking stock of the Paris climate debate
Climate change is about two things: mitigating the global warming effect and adapting to the changed climate
Meet the fossil fuel firms sponsoring the world's biggest climate conference
Not surprisingly, many of the sponsors here at the Paris talks are French companies who have hoped to acquire reputational capital from the summit
Who are the top greenhouse gas emitters?
This animation shows which countries have been the top greenhouse gas emitters since the beginning of the industrial revolution and their …
Microclimates unattended
Weather scientists must develop a better understanding of microclimates to protect agricultural ecosystems against climate change
Net Zero 2050: Swiss vote for clean energies over fossil fuels
Proposal to cut carbon dioxide emissions, accelerate renewables receives almost 60% votes
Climate-related weather events to break records in US this year, data shows
The country is on its way to record 17 billion-dollar extreme weather events in 2020, having lost $46.6 billion till September
Green bonds: Is it green finance or green-washing?
A foremost requirement to develop a robust green bond market is to harmonise international and domestic guidelines and standards for …
Sunita Narain highlights hits and misses of Paris climate deal
The agreement has come after an intense two weeks of negotiations and represents a lot of compromises made, particularly by developing countries &…
Climate change high on agenda during Obama visit
Outcome of India-US dialogue, particularly relating to renewable energy, will guide India’s intended contribution to global efforts to …
Eco-socialism to fight climate change
With Lima failing to tackle critical issues on global warming, Bolivia outlines socialist project to save the planet
'Regional climate models must for managing water'
Subimal Ghosh, faculty member of IIT-Bombay, has been working on localised climate change models. He speaks to Dinsa Sachan about extreme …
No evidence of policy-driven fall in US emissions post-2005, says new book
'Capitan America', a comprehensive analysis of the US climate action plan, says US INDCs are neither equitable nor ambitious
Power games at UN climate talks
Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …
World gets a yellow card
The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …
Sonam Wangchuk is right. All is not well with Ladakh’s glaciers
In October 2021, 31 glacial lakes and water bodies showed an increase in area by 20%, found CSE & DTE’s State of India’s …
UN launches 10 principles to close Asia-Pacific sustainable finance gap
Aimed at mobilising and deploying financing for key Sustainable Development Goals, particularly around climate action