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

Africa needs to double energy investments to achieve energy, climate goals by 2030: IEA

Full access to modern energy by 2030 will require investment of $25 billion per year

Sub-Saharan Africa’s debt burden increased to record $702 billion in 2020 — highest in a decade

The region has more debt than it can pay off

Berlin’s grassroots plan to renationalise up to 200,000 ex-council homes from corporate landlords

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

RIP Panchayati Raj ministry

The new-found `cooperative federalism' will kill the third tier of government in India

Solace in money plant

Forestry rescues recession-ridden investors in Europe and North America

For the record

No banking on the World Bank

... when its controversial actions invariably invite flak

A luxury no more

Kaziranga nightmare

Power cut

Maharashtra's decentralisation plan gets derailed even before it can take off

Tough measure

No lifesaver this

Still no viable alternative for drugs price control

On Robert Zoellick, new World Bank president

Bank's world

Following rules doesn't pay

Panchayat civil servants, not yet

States want them, but not willing to spend on their salaries

PM Modi: Climate action ambitions must match with action on climate finance

Calls for democratising climate action in a blog article

COP27: Adaptation pledge sum 35% less than Glasgow, despite UN call for more support

Forty per cent of adaptation fund pledged in Glasgow not yet met 

COP27: Developing & developed blocks lock horns over new climate finance roadmap

Wealthy nations want to expand the donor base with New Collective Quantified Goal

Who said what and pledged how much

‘States that use less must get less’

Standing committee makes allocation of tribal funds conditional

Making it mandatory

Growth of R&D