Access to financial services can help rural India cope with climate risks: Study
Over half the Indian households surveyed who faced climate shocks used their own savings to cope
Climate cover: $140 million insurance scheme in Kenya to protect herders against frequent droughts
Scheme part of a project sponsored by World Bank targetting livestock farmers in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti
Climate resilience: Kenyan farmers are adapting to extreme weather by growing indigenous crops
Exotic and commercial vegetables still form the bulk of Kenyan diets; campaigners for indigenous foods hope to reverse the trend
COP27: Here’s how the Global Goal on Adaptation framework was negotiated at Sharm El-Sheikh
Framework will be considered and adopted at the COP28 in 2023; will review progress of achieving GGA
Abandonment, poverty, sexual exploitation: Why Indian women pay a higher price for climate crisis
Women have limited ability to overcome climate shocks compared to their male counterparts: It is an uneven playing field. But a gradual …
Worrisome trend: Every third climate case yields unfavourable outcome
The highest number of climate litigations were filed from Latin America and the Caribbean
Dragon in the room: Why China’s target of carbon neutrality is misleading
China contributed 27% to the world’s overall global emissions in 2019, surpassing the United States
#FridaysForFuture: Students demand climate action
Inspired by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, thousands of youth from across the globe hit the streets
Balanced and robust Paris rulebook unlikely in Katowice
It will be a mammoth task to have a balanced rulebook that will reflect fair and equitable progress on all agenda items under the Paris Agreement
Green Climate Fund’s breakdown may impact climate action
GCF, the primary vehicle for Paris pact finances, struggles as developed countries don’t seem too keen on donating
Norway, Unilever setting up $400-million fund for ‘resilient socioeconomic development’
Under the UN Climate Resilience Initiative, public and private partners are coming together to help countries and communities anticipate and …
Africa presents united front and calls for action at COP22
Africa's key priority is to ensure that global ambitions are in line with the continent’s development goals
COP 22: India not happy with the mode of work under APA
According to India, the progress report was mitigation-centric and did not capture the range and depth of discussions held during deliberations
Africa Carbon Forum to discuss the continent's prospects post-COP21
A World Bank analysis estimated that not addressing climate change could plunge 43 million people into poverty by 2030 in Africa
Amazon rainforest is drying out. How much more abuse can it take?
Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Preserving its trees is crucial to meeting international targets that limit …
High Road to Dubai COP28: Fossil fuel lobbyists crawled into ongoing Bonn climate meet, says research
Lobbyists are there to push the agenda of fossil expansion forward to continue to rake in profits, notes research
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 syndrome: What should ‘+50’ be about
The 50th anniversary celebration of the Stockholm conference should be about our common future, not the divisions of the past
Climate justice, now: Latest IPCC report just told us why we need that
IPCC’s latest climate report provides evidence that climate-justice needs to be at the centre of global policymaking
COP 26: Contentious issues of finance, carbon markets pushed to week 2
CoP26 President Alok Sharma reported progress made during week one in Glasgow in an informal stocktaking plenary November 8
Climate Emergency CoP 25: New index makes scathing critique of climate laggards
Approval of Adani mine makes Australian government an “increasingly regressive force”
Reading tea leaves
As the Copenhagen talks launch, Equitywatch looks at the early signs of where things might be headed</e
No Emerging Consensus on Climate Finance
Eu leaders meet in Brussels to discuss fast track funding for climate change
Four texts
Proposals for the overall architecture of a Copenhagen agreement will be discussed in plenary on Saturday
Halftime
After two large plenary meetings, informal Ministerial meetings take over