Over 528,000 died in last two decades due to extreme weather events; low-income nations most affected
Out of the ten most affected countries (1997–2016), nine were developing countries in the low-income or lower-middle income categories
It is now US against the rest of the world
With Nicaragua joining the Paris deal and Syria announcing its intention to ratify the accord at COP23 in Bonn, the isolation of US is now complete
Global warming worryingly close to lower limit set by Paris Agreement: WMO
The risk of losing the race against climate change becomes real as temperature rise globally likely to breach 1.2 degrees by the end of 2016
Clean energy could save hundreds of billions in health costs every year
Global warming is often seen as a problem for future generations, but focusing on the immediate and substantial health benefits of clean energy …
Climate Control
Politics gets the better of common sense on the issue of global warming. At the upcoming climate change talks in Buenos Aires, US-led developed …
CoP18, Doha: a gateway that leads nowhere
Mistakes made at Copenhagen may get repeated at Doha climate talks
Qatar could ask ministers to short-circuit negotiations
Delegates attending biodiversity meet swing to Bollywood tunes
Negotiations progress smoothly
The inconvenient truth
Doha climate talks: rich nations push for dropping disputed matters
No progress on the Durban Platform to be allowed unless elements from long-term cooperative action incorporated in negotiating process, say …
What Durban did not discuss
IPRs are blocking access to mitigation and adaptation technologies. India offers a way out
What's critical at Durban: removing the firewall between developing and developed countries
Equity Watch
Americans not very different from their president
The US citizens are more concerned with cost than action to arrest climate change
Compromise on climate
Nation manages to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered-down agreement
Should fat cats guard the cream?
Industrialised countries want to monitor their own compliance to the Kyoto Protocol.
Cheers Chiraq!
The French President calls for equity
Equity Primer
A look at why equity is so important at the climate negotiations
Drama over Loss and Damage
Australian and Norwegian negotiators block text, India wants an outcome.
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
India needs US$ 2 trillion to adapt to climate change
The country will experience 1-1.5°C increase in mean annual air temperature in the near term from 2016 to 2045 with ‘profound’ …
Are the INDCs submitted by the US ambitious enough?
A quick analysis of the US INDCs reveals that the emission reduction pledges are neither ambitious nor fair
Will climate-induced migration feature at COP21?
People in small island nations and vulnerable deltas, which perhaps had no role in the greenhouse gas emissions changing the world's climate, are …
There has been a decline in climate finance during COVID-19: WRI report
Countries have been forced to cut funding for many climate-related sectors to free up money for addressing pandemic-related expenditures and …
CoP26: Save Earth, Greta and peers appeal to world leaders
Greta Thunberg urges keeping the goal of 1.5°C alive, ending fossil fuel investments and funding climate-vulnerable countries
Joe Biden has a difficult task ahead on climate change even if he wins US Elections 2020
Much of his first term would go into undoing the damage caused by Trump’s tenure as President of the US and get the country …