Shifting forest finance toward a rights-based REDD+

Criticisms of REDD+ may leave the impression that this is an uncertain avenue for climate finance. The case for finance to flow to carbon sinks …

Models aren’t a panacea for saving the environment: hard lessons from REDD+

Model-making leads to the potential for deforestation and improved livelihoods at scale to be sidestepped, while making it possible for …

Will a new and ‘improved’ WTO be in India’s interests

The World Trade Organization needs an overhaul, but the reform will leave even less space for developing nations

Pre-COVID-19 debt crisis has aggravated in poorest countries after pandemic: World Bank

G20 members not keen to extend COVID-19 debt relief for poorest countries

COVID-19: Worst economic performance by very poor countries in 30 years

43 least developed countries are experiencing a fall in their average income levels, says UNCTAD report

Paris Agreement: Five years on, it’s time to fix carbon trading

Setting the rules that govern emissions trading, financing and support for developing countries over 2021 will be critical

Climate financing adds to poor countries’ debt pile: Oxfam

Eighty per cent of climate financing was provided as loans in 2017-18, according to study

50 years of international aid: World’s richest countries owe $5.7 trillion debt to poor, says OXFAM

Substantial debt owed to world’s poorest people 9 times more than sub-Saharan Africa’s stock of external debt at 2019-end

Lonely in Anthropocene

Humans have to be the point of solution for the planet’s uncontrolled slip into an abyss of ecological disaster

Climate change adaptation: Cost to at least quadruple for developing countries in 3 decades

The current annual adaptation costs in developing countries are around $70 billion 

Simply Put: No strings attached

Is India in a position to announce a target of net zero emissions by 2050?  

This has to be decided keeping into consideration the country’s national circumstances and the feasibility of achieving such a target

Some 5.4 billion people globally couldn't obtain necessary resources in 2017: Study

Some 57% of humanity was unable to obtain necessary resources in 1980; this figure rose to 72% in 2017, a study said

UN: $200 billion increase in fund flow to developing countries for managing nature

It is one of many demands and targets that have been set through 2030 in the just-released official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework

Only 25 cities responsible for 52% of global urban GHG emissions: Study

Cities in the developed world show higher per capita emissions, according to the study

South Asia has lost most human capital due to air pollution: World Bank

World Bank releases the Changing Wealth of Nations report that says environmental degradation is leading to a decline in overall wealth

Agenda for CoP26: How to achieve net zero

At Glasgow, the world must focus on plans and targets to make developed countries net zero by 2030 and make sure that these are achieved

Glasgow CoP26: Climate finance pledges from rich nations are inadequate and time is running out

If developing countries do not receive financial assistance to reduce emissions, it is unlikely we will meet the commitment of the Paris …

The fate of our planet depends on the next few days of complex diplomacy in Glasgow. Here’s what needs to go right

Progress in the UN climate talks, both at CoP26 and beyond, may involve a “grand bargain” encompassing new promises on climate …

CoP26: Hardly 12 hours to go, completion of Paris rulebook still under cloud in Glasgow

Big announcements have hardly influenced on-ground negotiations at Glasgow

The latest CoP26 decision draft urges and urges; and then deeply regrets

The decision falls short of what the world needs according to various scientific reports published leading to and during the summit

A third draft, still undecided; CoP 26 might not deliver what is expected

Unabated coal and fossil fuel subsidies are still in the text; ‘just transition’ added and minor adjustments to loss and damage  

CoP26 a missed opportunity: Graduate from kindergarten diplomacy

The much-delayed climate summit in Glasgow did little to acknowledge that combatting climate change requires cooperation at a scale never seen before

CoP26: Not on official agenda but Loss & Damage comeback gives hope, say experts

14 of the 97 pointers in the final draft of Glasgow Pact were dedicated to Loss & Damage

Accountability, equity: Experts suggest what WHO’s first-ever pandemic treaty should encapsulate

The first round of public hearings for the treaty is currently underway though it will be drafted only by 2024