What is an inverted yield curve? Why is it panicking markets, and why is there talk of recession?

The yield curve is a graph showing the relationship between interest rates earned on lending money for different durations

PMO discusses climate change

Factsheet: Sharing the climate burden

Equity has been central to the multilateral negotiations on climate change mitigation and adaptation...

The rebuttals all around

India rebutts US and EUs attempts to make developing countries pay for climate finance

The future we do not want

World leaders attending Rio+20 did nothing to tackle the interlinked crises of economy and ecology, says Sunita Narain after attending the …

Omicron in southern Africa: Zimbabwe tries to pull all stops

The country recorded 4,367 new cases December 14, 2021  

Jayanthi Natarajan's statement in Durban on the issue of a new legally binding treaty

Equity Watch

COP 23 did not accomplish much, but developing nations keep hopes alive

Environmental groups are not happy with the outcome of the negotiations, whose objective was to get clarity on complex operational issues …

At COP23, consensus emerges on recognising rights of indigenous communities

A new platform will be made operational to strengthen efforts of indigenous communities towards addressing climate change

High ambition coalition! Are you joking?

Chandra Bhushan explains why by no stretch of imagination can any one call the past, present and future climate actions of the US and the EU (…

Indian Science Congress' failed attempt at relevance

India's poorest people live in the richest areas Comments from the dialogue on mining organised by CSE

Abandonment, poverty, sexual exploitation: Why Indian women pay a higher price for climate crisis

Women have limited ability to overcome climate shocks compared to their male counterparts: It is an uneven playing field. But a gradual …

Green Climate Fund: Yes and No

The Durbanator reports

Compliance: More words

After a week of negotiations the compliance working group has produced nothing but even lengthier texts and more brackets, in short, a complete farce.

COP21

Outsourcing commitments

Book>> Carbon Trading How it Works and Why it Fails by Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes Dag Hammarskjld Foundation, Upsala Can be downloaded

Centre, state battle over electricity

Will Warsaw deliver on equity?

Negotiating parties in Warsaw have started working on the new climate deal that will be signed in Paris in 2015, and those who had found it …

Natural burden

We’re entering a new phase of COVID, where we each have to assess and mitigate our own risk. But how?

COVID vaccines aren’t perfect and don’t completely stop transmission, but they greatly reduce your likelihood of becoming …

Nearly every child will face frequent heatwaves by 2050: UNICEF 

1 in 4 children lives in areas where the average heatwave event lasts 4.7 days or longer

Africa's energy sector has most opportunities for investing in climate change: Survey

All respondents who see climate change more in terms of market opportunities have private equity investments in Africa

What should be India's position at the fourth round of negotiations on Climate Change in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 2-13?

As the globe warms up, politics is getting the better of climate science

No climate equity in Commonwealth; poor nations doing lot more for mitigation

Despite huge carbon footprint, the UK and similar rich nations such as Australia and Canada are failing to do their fair share to prevent climate …