‘Our vulnerabilities laid bare’: Least developed countries react to IPCC’s Working Group II report

Chair of LDC group urges rich countries to deliver on loss and damage and climate finance

Biden’s climate summit puts climate back on the agenda

It may not have galvanised the rapid and far-reaching changes needed, but has forced leaders to confront the scale of the task ahead

Change the climate now

Now that the rich are also being hit by climate change & the “attribution” is clear, the targets for the world’s anger will …

Bonn climate talks off to an explosive start

As opposed to negotiating with developed countries, day 1 seemed to be all about developing countries versus the co-chairs  

Backyard mess

Wastepaper is abundantly available in India. Yet the Indian paper industry depends heavily on imports. MONALI ZEYA HAZRA finds out why

'We cannot sell the idea of equity back home,' says US negotiator

US says no to equitable division of atmospheric space

Only 10 of 46 Least Developed Countries mention loss and damage explicitly in NDCs: Study

IIED urges countries to revise their NDCs before CoP27 and mention losses and damages

Dumping ground

Expectations from CoP26: Climate finance needs to be scaled up with focus on adaptation, says LDC Group 

The group wants a balance between funds provided for mitigation actions and those for adapting to climate change

25% healthcare centres lack water facilities, 20% sanitation facilities: WHO

The report highlights that each year 17 million women in least developed countries give birth in centres with inadequate facilities for water, …

Another opportunity lost

This year's UN Commission on Sustainable Development meet provided no roadmap to attain Millennium Development Goals on water, sanitation and …

Fig leaf for the business world

That is what the Montreal Protocol, meant to do away with ozone depleting substances, has become. India's phase out programme under the protocol …

Least developed countries need help to overcome COVID-19-induced economic setback: UNCTAD

Boosting productive capacities biggest hope for LDC to cushion COVID-19 impacts 

Least Developed Countries will prove challenging in the post-MDG agenda, says UN report

Only one out of 48 countries is on track to achieve seven developmental goals

Lost chance

Gridlock over farm trade issues continues

Run-up to COP27: ‘John Kerry is scared of the floodgates of litigations on accepting loss and damage’

Down To Earth speaks to Farhana Yamin, one of the key architects of the Paris deal, on why rich countries are attempting to linger negotiations …

Hush!

The refrigerant and air conditioning industry in India remains quiet about its moves post 2002 when it stops using chlorofluorocarbons. Is it …

A case of myopia?

For manufacturers of ozone destorying substances in the South its time to make a tough call. The protocol brings the bigwigs of the North-based …

Book review: Seeds of Contention

The good thing about this book is that it makes a clear attempt to scale down the shrill rhetoric of the gm debate. The sharp language and …

A logjam in the making

Lack of enthusiasm marks the preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development

High road to Dubai COP28: Developing countries demand ambition on financial support in Bonn

There can be no discussion on enhancing mitigation ambition in developing country Parties without an accompanied discussion on enhancing …

COP27: Switzerland wants ‘major emitters’ and big developing economies to do more on mitigation

Talks on the Mitigation Work Programme November 8 brought back memories of post-Paris mitigation politics, where rich countries asked all to …

A well-hatched plot

Indications are that India will be made the "fall guy". Developed countries will try at every step to propose changes in the 1992 convention, …

Road to Buenos Aires

The US strategy, calling for joint action by industrialised nations in the Pacific Rim to reduce carbon emissions, comes under fire from the …

Paris Agreement adopted, countries whimper 'hooray'

More than 190 nations agree to a historic yet compromised climate deal