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

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

NGOs to boycott climate talks

Civil society groups express unhappiness over developed countries and Poland blocking negotiations

Reluctant funding

Compromise on resources salvages CBD conference; marine protection gets big boost

Letters

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

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

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

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

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  

Implementation of biosafety norms not satisfactory: Gbedemah

 Funds availability a major hindrance, says head of biosafety at CBD

Countries pitch in for early warning systems and accurate weather projections

Workshops in Bonn focus on the development of contingency plans to tackle extreme weather events and their adverse effects on crops

Let us be smart about 'differentiation'

It important to deconstruct the politics of differentiation

LDCs ring the alarm bell before Bonn

Demand higher ambition; will EU still take the lead?

Lima climate conference has to ‘write history’ to save earth, says Figueres

Over the course of the next two weeks, delegates will attempt to hammer out the new universal treaty, which would enter force by 2020

Warsaw climate talks: Farm emissions kept out of COP 19

G77+China successfully counter move by EU to add agriculture as a source of emissions for purpose of accounting