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 …

Report card on climate change aid: developed countries not transparent

Emerging economies cannot make emissions reduction conditional to financial support says the US

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 …

UN climate talks: Money for Green Climate Fund to be raised from market

Finance agency goes ahead with decision in spite of demand from developing nations to keep private investments out

Cloudburst explained

Has India taken heed of warning from previous cloudburst incidents?

Climate change threatens peace and prosperity, says UN secretary general

Summit seeks joint engagement by countries, civil society and private sector

World gets a yellow card

The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …

Can Gurgaon follow Copenhagen?

The Danish capital has more bicycles than people

India announces its INDC, pledges to cut emission intensity of its GDP by 33-35 per cent by 2030

All countries are required to submit voluntary climate action plans as contribution. These will form part of the outcome of Paris climate summit

The curious case of climate finance

While a recent OECD report suggested that climate finance had risen to US $110 billion, India found that the only credible finance was for US $2.…

We have almost certainly blown the 1.5-degree global warming target

Limiting global warming to 1.5℃ already looks out of reach, so where do we go from here?

‘India could achieve its 2030 climate targets’

In its NDC, India had promised to reduce its emissions intensity— greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP—by 33 to 35 per cent below …

Cities must lead the action on climate change

Administrators of cities across the world underline the importance of urban centres in tackling climate change at the Global Climate Action …

Reading tea leaves

As the Copenhagen talks launch, Equitywatch looks at the early signs of where things might be headed</e

The Danish Proposal Surfaces

A secret negotiating text is leaked to the media, and the day goes from dull to anything but.

Small island states make a stand

COP plenary suspended

No Emerging Consensus on Climate Finance

  Eu leaders meet in Brussels to discuss fast track funding for climate change

A new proposal from AOSIS

Alternative to the Danish Proposal and the BASIC draft

Four texts

Proposals for the overall architecture of a Copenhagen agreement will be discussed in plenary on Saturday

Halftime

  After two large plenary meetings, informal Ministerial meetings take over

Copenhagen talks in limbo

  Formal negotiations appear suspended as the G77 and China announce a walkout

CMP from Bella Centre

G77 and China make it clear that they want the leaders to consider only those drafts, which have been negotiated by parties. 

From zero to agreement in nine hours?

Amidst floundering negotiations, Ministers and heads of state appear to be negotiating a draft agreement text face-to-face

Political declaration imminent

Non-legally binding agreement to be announced within the hour

Under the microscope: LULUCF

Several Annex I countries are lobbying for shoddy accounting practices that would weaken their overall emissions targets