Factsheet: Climate finance

Climate finance involves flow of funds from developed to developing countries to help them cut  their emissions and adapt to climate change. …

How this Gujarat man came to be celebrated as a Biblical character

Bharat Patel gets the fisherfolk of Kutch, affected by a coal power plant funded by the World Bank, a historic victory in the US Supreme Court

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

Bangkok climate talks on adaptation communication show sign of promise

The document, which is currently being discussed, emphasises the need for support for adaptation communications as well as the purpose of the support

State-run insurance firms headless; PMFBY implementation suffers

Performances of private insurance companies were also not encouraging, though they had been opted for those states where risk was less

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

Smart city financing laden with trouble

Allocation of funds is not equitable even as local bodies face difficulties in generating money

Natural resources can pay for Myanmar's needs

The government can allocate money more rationally between ministries and set ministry spending limits based on available resources, thanks …

The truth behind developed nations' pledge to mobilise climate finance

A crucial issue is whether private money should be included in the target to reach US $100 billion for mitigating climate change impacts

Bond, green bond

India has finally entered the green bond market, but at a time when the bonds are not doing well globally. Have we missed the bus?

Solace in money plant

Forestry rescues recession-ridden investors in Europe and North America

A luxury no more

Kaziranga nightmare

Sullying the seas

An oil spill pollutes 500 km of the French coast. It takes three weeks and public pressure for the guilty company to accept responsibility

Power cut

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

Tough measure

Book review: Panchayats, democracy and development

In 1992 the Indian Parliament approved of the 73rd constitutional amendment, which made it mandatory for state governments to devolve powers to …

Report: Face financial risk - Ignore climate change

A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the …

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

No banking on the World Bank

... when its controversial actions invariably invite flak

RIP Panchayati Raj ministry

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