CSE's analysis reveals compromises in Paris agreement draft text

With so much drama and negotiations running in parallel sessions, one would have hoped for a serious outcome

The Godot of climate change

In Samuel Beckett’s play, Godot never arrived till the end, leaving two characters anticipating his arrival. Will the Godot of climate …

High ambition coalition! Are you joking?

Chandra Bhushan explains why by no stretch of imagination can any one call the past, present and future climate actions of the US and the EU (…

Current text promotes a voluntary country-driven climate actions regime, says CSE

The negotiating draft text dilutes the key elements of the Convention like historical responsibility, differentiation and carbon budget, and will …

The great 'carbon' divide

Paris committee takes stock of progress on draft text

Differentiation, loss and damage and finance emerge as critical issues

500 years of drought and flood: trees and corals reveal Australia's climate history

The dominant theme of Australia’s drought history is variability. The country may get one year of extremely wet conditions or six …

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

'Fossil fuel subsidies should be deemed as negative climate finance'

Experts cite examples of many countries which have begun diverting fossil fuel subsidies towards development projects

Little progress in climate negotiations; countries urge for more transparency

Little convergence among parties could be seen under the informal consultation groups constituted by COP president

Experts raise concern over exceeding carbon budget by 2030

Global warming will exceed two degrees Celsius unless actions are taken on a war like footing, feel researchers

Let us be smart about 'differentiation'

It important to deconstruct the politics of differentiation

For or against the climate goal?

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Ananlysis of the first week of COP 21

Chandra Bhushan talks about the first week of negotiations at the Paris Climate Change Conference COP21

Stress on coal a planned move to digress from carbon budget, says Chandra Bhushan

CSE Deputy Director General states that coal is used as a major fuel globally and not just in India

UNEP releases adaptation gap report 2015

Says the costs of adaptation could be in the range of US$280-$500 billion

The rebuttals all around

India rebutts US and EUs attempts to make developing countries pay for climate finance

Convention must not be rewritten, assert developing countries at COP

At a high-level meet in Paris, the countries pushed for equal treatment of mitigation and adaptation in the final deal

India commits to restore 13 million ha of degraded forest under Bonn Challenge

Bringing back degraded and deforested lands can help stabilise the climate while sustainably supporting global and local economies, say experts

Drafting the Paris agreement: the week that was

Draft text adopted, but many issues need resolving

For Al Gore, youth is the driver of climate debate

The renewable-energy enthusiast’s message was a ray of hope for civil society and non-government organisations at the Paris climate meet

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Will the Paris climate deal include issue of forced climate migration?

Experts say that displacement and migration occurs because of the failure of adaptation in most vulnerable countries and, therefore, should be …

Who is afraid of transparency?

Flaring up issues of transparency and reporting of climate actions could be a tactic by developed nations to divert attention from more …

Week one in COP21 over, will week two deliver?

Even though there is very little agreement at the Paris climate summit, there is still hope, say negotiators