The 1996 World Food Summit target

Of halving the world's undernourished by 2015 is ambitious. Here's why:

WTO revision

More transparency in import of plant and animal products

Too opaque for comfort

There is a serious mismatch between global realities and the World Bank's governing structure

Forests grump

United Nations Forum on Forests fails to propose reforms

Tuber trouble

Poorest countries are in debt; spent record $443.5 bln in debt service payments

Interest payments by these countries quadrupled to all-time high of $23.6 billion in 2022

COP28: New GST text urges global Net Zero by 2050 with cuts to fossil fuels; proposes rapid phasedown of coal

Experts term it a retrograde draft; presidency shifts onus on parties   

COP28: Differences on responsibility continue in the 15th Global Stocktake negotiation

A final round of negotiations is expected on December 6, following which the text will be handed over to the Presidency

COP28 Dubai: Climate finance to developing countries needs to quadruple by 2030 to reach Paris goals, says new report

Developed countries must lead by tripling the amount of bilateral concessional finance by 2030, say authors

Urban burden

Catch constraints

Double trouble

Health Risk

The final outcome of the Durban Conference on Climate Change

The Durban Conference is a turning point in the climate change negotiations

Renewed focus

But the next one year is crucial to renewable energy in India

Offshoot that matters

But Indian communities may lose out due to lack of official preparedness

India among top 5 countries on Climate Change Performance Index

Denmark, Sweden, Chile and Morocco only countries to rank above India

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

Energy in news on June 6

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

Pre-2020 action and climate finance need of the hour: BASIC

Adaptation fund and finance are issues that are still to be discussed and resolved

Fertiliser use is. increasing fit developing world

Caught in legal limbo

A tussle over funding clouds issues of climate change a biodiversity.

Drop in consumption level of CFCs, halons

Why don't we set our own house in order first?

The state uses all the right words. But its actions don't match its rhetoric, unfortunately

Rio fever hits the networks

The mother of all summits grabbed a good deal of telecast time recently