COM2024: Climate financing hurdles take centrestage at African economic ministers’ conference

Some of the home-grown financing solutions that some African countries have already started embracing include carbon trading

Global climate finance flows for 2015-16 increased by 17%: UN report

The report highlights that a large part of climate finance continues to go towards efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions

Corporate social responsibility practices in the times of COVID-19: A study of India’s BFSI sector

Banking, finance and insurance firms must understand the areas in which the society needs action and focus on them

COP27 diary (November 12): ‘US won't support legal structures for loss and damage liabilities’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit 

Run up to COP27: Only a quarter of global climate finance flows into Asia; much of that in loan

India received a total of $37.1 billion in climate finance during 2013-2020

Despite growing demand for climate fund, nations fail to agree on replenishment process

Discussions on funding proposals could not happen due to process-related disagreements among Board members

Adaptation is key if Africa is to tackle climate change

Africa needs to work on adaption strategies if it is to overcome the harmful effects of climate change

Rao wants more opportunities for young talent

Twenty-five scientists met the Prime Minister recently and appraised him of the issues confronting scientific research in India

No money for labs in antibiotics research

Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not …

Toyota pays up

Toyota Motor Corp will spend US $34 million to finance the improvement of anti-pollution controls on old, publicly-owned buses in the US even …

High road to Dubai COP28: 6th Technical Expert Dialogue on New Collective Quantified Goal held at Bonn

Quantum of new climate finance goal should be based on needs of developing countries, backed by science & tied to specific outcomes, …

Funds for clean air: Get the blueprint right

Committed funds for clean air action excites hope. Needs strong performance metrics. But there are also risks of underfunding some key sectors of …

Civil society seconds rural development ministry’s demand for MGNREGA funds

The rural development ministry had recently demanded an additional allocation of Rs 5,000 crore to maintain the momentum of MGNREGA

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COP28: Global Stocktake adopted, final text attempts stronger language on fossil fuels

Language calling out production of fossil fuels is now missing — a trade off for not making actions optional

Global climate finance increasing, but scale & pace not enough: New report 

Increase in overall average climate finance flows to the one trillion threshold represents only 1% of the global GDP

Labour's love lost

Goodshow

Exchange programme

Drastic step

Andhra government mulls draconian laws on rainwater harvesting

Risky move

WB's U-turn on hydropower

Housing more funds

Warehousing Bill, a double-edged sword for farmers

Trial by error

Booms are not forever