Trump’s battle with California busts myths about American climate policy

The development should end the illusion that sub-national action will suffice

Best way to remove carbon: Sequestering it in its natural sinks

To curb desertification, we need to restore degraded soil via forestry, improve vegetative cover, enhance water use efficiency, reduce soil …

Defunding environment programmes in US will affect the world

The Energy Star Programme, which has prevented 2.8 billion tonnes of GHG emissions, is being defunded

Cities take the lead by setting emission reduction targets

Cities are responsible for a large chunk of greenhouse gas emissions due to concentration of economic activity

Norway on aKutt campaign

How crop burning affects Delhi's air quality

Polash Mukerjee from Centre for Science and Environment explains how crop burning in Punjab and Haryana affects Delhi's air quality

It’s banned and depletes ozone layer, still China uses it

The Environmental Investigative Agency has found that CFC-11, a gas banned under the Montreal Protocol, is being used extensively in East Asia, …

Paris Climate Deal: ambitions and actions on the ground

National pledges on emission reduction made by countries under Paris Agreements will only account for one-third of what is needed to avoid the …

HFC phase down: what is the relationship between cost and ambition?

Coming to a consensus on the relationship between cost and ambition will be crucial in determining the nature of the HFC phase-down amendment

Fall in place

क्या खराब बिजनेसमैन हैं ट्रंप?

अमेरिका के निर्णय के बाद पूरी संभावना है कि शैल गैस के उत…

Revenge of the rich

Trump's election reflects the anger of the rich who did not get richer. This inequity is also at the core of the climate change challenge

Putting carbon back in the land is just a smokescreen for real climate action

Storing carbon on land is useful for combating climate change, but it is no replacement for reducing fossil fuel emissions

CDM cleansing

How Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants are way off the mark

The recent uproar against the Okhla plant highlights how none of three in the Capital is effectively doing what they are supposed to

Five things that should happen at the Bonn climate talks but probably won’t

Parties could agree on certain rules in order to help the first stocktake of progress in implementing the agreement

Countries are progressing too slowly on green growth, says OECD

No country is performing well on all green growth dimensions and most of the countries studied are yet to fully disconnect economic growth from …

What is a pre-industrial climate and why does it matter?

Different definitions of pre-industrial and natural climate make it harder to synthesise the results from individual studies

Fiji becomes the first country to ratify Paris Agreement

Fiji has also pledged an unconditional 10 per cent emissions cut by 2030

Climate change can push more than 100 million people into poverty by 2030, says new report

In India alone, 45 million people could be pushed back over the poverty line by 2030, primarily due to agricultural shocks and increased …

Buy and forget

No substitute for UN talks on climate change

US, Australia change tack

Won’t cut CO2 emissions

Within two centuries, we’ve taken climate trends back to 50 million years ago

Recent study predicts that with no significant reduction in the emissions by 2150, the climate could become like the one during the Eocene era, …

US to promote fossil fuels, nuclear power at Bonn climate talks

US energy firms will discuss how fossil fuels can help poor countries meet energy needs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions