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

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

क्या गरीब देशों को कर्ज के भंवर जाल में फंसा देगा क्लाइमेट फंड?

क्लाइमेट फाइनेंस के नाम पर दिए 4,40,637 करोड़ रुपए में से केवल एक तिहाई ही गरीब देशों तक पहुंच पाया था 

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

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

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 …

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 …

Uganda becomes first African country to submit REDD+ results, paves way for payments

The mechanism by the United Nations calls for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

COVID-19 unlockdown is a challenge and an opportunity at the same time

It will generate medium-term challenges but also presents an opportunity to accelerate the shift to more sustainable and equitable growth

How ‘vaccine nationalism’ could block vulnerable populations’ access to COVID-19 vaccines

Vaccine nationalism also runs against the fundamental principles of vaccine development and global public health

कोरोना से दुनिया में 100 करोड़ हो सकते हैं गरीब, भारत पर सबसे ज्यादा असर: रिपोर्ट

रिपोर्ट के अनुसार चूंकि भारत की आबादी बहुत ज्यादा है, और यहां गरीबों की तादाद को देखते हुए एक बड़ी संख्या इससे प्रभावित होगी

Landlocked countries suffering due to COVID-19 lockdown: UN

Lack of coastlines makes the flow of goods from these countries to world markets more difficult, it added

What do science-based targets to limit climate change really look like?

Commitment to climate justice demands that rich countries make deeper cuts to their emissions than merely equalising per-capita emissions by 2030

COVID-19: UNCTAD predicts $3.4 tln debt for developing countries

Income losses to exceed $220 bln in developing countries, says report 

दशक पर एक नजर: क्या टूट रहा है ग्लोबलाइजेशन का भ्रम?

नई सदी के दूसरे दशक के दौरान हुए महत्वपूर्ण घटनाओं की एक श्रृखंला: इस कड़ी में पढ़ें, कैसे टूट रहा है वैश्वीकरण का भ्रम?

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Decent outcome on 2020 Ambition

The text on ‘Chile Madrid Time for Action’ may have just salvaged this CoP

Being darker makes being a migrant much harder

Migrants from 'developed' economies enjoy more clout

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Will the world be net carbon zero by 2050

To attain the 1.5°C warming target, the world must completely stop using coal

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Developed countries have already exhausted the Earth’s carbon budget

Carbon space for Africa and India will be pittance; China too is consuming more carbon from the budget

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Why 2020 is a critical year for the planet

This is the year countries will declare the second round of their national targets to reduce GHGs

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Protesters thrown out of venue for opposing slow progress in talks

Protesters have repeatedly pointed out the disconnect between the reality of climate change and the slow pace of negotiations without any …

Climate Emergency CoP 25: India is the only major economy to be ‘2 degree compatible’

The US, China and the EU are ‘highly insufficient’ in their efforts to reduce GHG emissions

Climate Emergency CoP 25: 70% of top polluting countries failed to meet GHGs reduction target

Countries should have been on track to meet the first round of their emission reduction targets under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Climate Emergency CoP 25: The Adaptation Fund is perfectly fit to serve the Paris Agreement

But some countries insist that its fundamental structure be changed

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Roadblock for Adaptation Fund

Developing countries willing to compromise on the negotiations to get Article 6 of Paris Agreement moving in the right direction