A history of climate change negotiations for beginners: Then and now
China’s announcement of achieving net-zero by 2060 is a stepping stone in fight against climate change. But it means nothing until …
Book Digest: Following climate crisis in 10 minutes, corporate world’s fight against COVID-19 and more
Human security issues stemming from the pandemic to politics of housing, DTE tracks new, contemporary books on environment and development from …
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 …
Environmental disasters and climate change force people to cross borders, but they’re not recognised as refugees — they should be
People displaced by adverse weather developments should be given more than temporary protection
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
What the Asia-Pacific needs to leap forward on climate action
To break their 'two steps forward, one step back' routine on climate action, the Asia-Pacific needs to start delivering on ambitious emissions targets
The world is running out of time: Least developed countries on IPCC report
Science is even clearer: Global greenhouse gas emissions are rising, the impacts will be devastating, said chair of 46 least developed …
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 conferences have a huge trust deficit: How to make COP28 deliver
The fact that after 27 COPs the world is still not demonstrating tangible climate action is contributing to growing frustration
High road to Dubai COP28: The Bonn meet is to end soon; but there is no decision yet about Global Goal on Adaptation
The GGA is being framed as a global target for countries and communities to aspire and take guidance from, something which is proving …
Some key takeaways from the Petersberg Climate Dialogue
The discussions at the event veered around global renewables target, climate finance and Global Stocktake
Run-up to COP27: LDCs want clear process to bridge $100 billion fund gap, loss & damage finance structure
Manjeet Dhakal, advisor to the LDC chair, talks about challenges faced by disadvantaged countries & their agenda for CoP27
‘Developed countries need to double funding to Africa for adaptation to climate change’
Summit discussed Africa's COP 27 agenda; Calls for flowing funds to continent's Adaptation Acceleration Program
Clear signs: 1.5°C warmer world to be catastrophic for India
DTE pieces together latest IPCC data to chart how temperature, rainfall patterns in India’s states will change in a 1.5°C warmer world
India in top 10 in climate performance ranking, says new report
US, China and EU fared poorly, slid several positions since last year
