Boiling point
Greenhouse gas emissions could raise global temperatures much more than previously forecast leading to drought and flooding as weather patterns …
Post-Paris climate: the ‘historic’ Agreement
The absence of the term ‘carbon space’ in the Paris Agreement is a reason to worry as this will hurt India in the long run
Busy preludes to biodiversity meet
Crucial issues such as protection of traditional knowledge, and creation of an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit …
New ‘Race to Zero’ campaign needs to leverage optimistic messaging into concrete climate action
Messaging needs to be leveraged to put pressure on holdout national governments to increase climate ambition
Developed countries face tough questions on emissions reduction
Inadequacy of targets and discrepancies in reporting highlighted at the first multilateral review of Annexe I parties
Budget 2016-17: Loose change for climate change
Budgetary allocation for expenditure on schemes and programmes and non-planned estimates account for only Rs 30 crore, reveals the fine print
What negotiations mean for least developed countries
They insist that loss and damage is a non-negotiable element of the Paris agreement
NGOs to boycott climate talks
Civil society groups express unhappiness over developed countries and Poland blocking negotiations
Letters
Reluctant funding
Compromise on resources salvages CBD conference; marine protection gets big boost
UN climate talks end with no takeaways
Only a weak agreement on mechanism to fund ‘loss and damage’
UN report warns of effects of urban expansion on biodiversity
Urban areas set to triple by 2030; population to touch 4.9 billion
Poor man’s burden
Developing countries shoulder the clean-up responsibility, yet it is not enough
Developing nations fume over revised text released by ADP co-chairs
They claim their proposals on the new climate agreement in the works are not reflected in the revised text, tilted heavily in favour of rich nations
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
Does India need a pact with China in Paris?
As India’s growth ambitions are different and more critical than that of China, the coalition may not be a good idea
Green signals from cellphone companies
Manufacturers sign declaration at the Sixth Conference of Parties (CoP-6) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of …
India all for CDM
Government endorses six renewable energy projects to be set up with Dutch assistance
COP27 must be remembered as ‘Implementation COP’, says Sameh Shoukry
The developing world’s first COP since Marrakesh in 2016 must implement the ‘Paris Rulebook’
G7 commitment to decarbonisation could be more talk less action
While the US and Canada are moving from one fossil fuel to another, other G7 countries are burning more coal since 2009
Civil society groups call for an end to carbon markets, green economy
Margarita Declaration, issued at the end of the four day pre-COP conference in Venezuela, was backed by UN but goes against the global agency's …
A Brazilian Proposal
Industrialised nations have introduced a Clean Development Mechanism to meet their reduction targets. In the second part of her climate change …
Breakthrough in impasse over toxic export ban
Parties take a step forward to make it easy to enforce Basel Ban Amendment
Cancun clinches deal—for polluters
Cancun has restored the sanctity of multilateral negotiations under the UN climate convention. People had lost faith in it by the end of the …
COP27 diary (November 7): ‘World on a highway to climate hell, with our foot on the accelerator’
A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit