India is hedging its bets on coal to bring power to the people
India is at a crossroads: how to bring electricity to millions of people without power, while …
Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change
Apart from CO₂, two other potent greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming are methane and nitrous oxide
Coming to terms with nature
Book>> Socialist Register 2007 Coming to Terms with Nature by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys The Merlin Press, London 2006 Published in India …
COP28 diary (December 6): Santiago Network draft adopted; scientists promote tech to curb methane emissions
Ecuador negotiator talks about challenges to consolidate unified position on Global Goal on Adaptation; Spain minister calls for enlarging base …
The polluting rich
In Court
Coal-based power plants pollute most
Europe keeping dirty fuels alive; will spend $68 billion in hidden subsidies by 2040
Spain, Poland, Belgium, Ireland and the UK are making the biggest spending for subsidising fossil fuels
Net Zero by 2050 possible, but clean energy investments need to outweigh fossils fast: Report
Heavy investment, hydrogen and carbon capture & storage can help keep the temperature increase to 1.7 degrees Celsius
Renewables are cheaper than ever yet fossil fuel use is still growing — here’s why
Rapidly increasing renewable energy hasn’t cut coal and gas consumption at the same rate because humankind is using a lot more electricity …
‘Fox in the henhouse’: African climate activists decry Sultan Al Jaber’s appointment as COP28 president
Oil company CEO’s appointment as COP28 president will embolden fossil fuel lobbies and derail global climate action, said experts
Global plans on increasing fossil fuel production a bad sign for warming world: UNEP report
The world will produce 240% more coal than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C. This is equal to 75% of current …
Forest fires in Uttarakhand: Absence of real-time air quality monitoring plagues Himalayas
Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh do not have a single official real-time air quality monitor
Wolf at our door
The US has made the world rewrite the climate agreement so that the targets are based on voluntary action, not science
Climate Change: Fossil firms risk US $2.2 trillion as investment in non-viable projects
If companies across the world continue fuel production in a business-as-usual scenario, UN action to achieve the climate goal will stall …
Governments worldwide spent $1.7 trillion of public money on fossil fuels, a new report finds
Among G20 countries, only 13 per cent of annual reports available showed that their SOEs had invested in renewable energy
Policy Backfires
Policy design allows dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil to flourish
Change the climate now
Now that the rich are also being hit by climate change & the “attribution” is clear, the targets for the world’s anger will …
Green energy surge still isn’t enough for 1.5 degrees. We’ll have to overshoot, adapt & soak up carbon dioxide
Economic sectors that produce large volumes of emissions, such as concrete and steel making, are difficult to decarbonise and will take longer
Biomass pellets: CPCB’s revised grants highly inadequate to close demand-supply gap
CPCB has underestimated the cost of setting up a pellet manufacturing unit, say experts
How do your favourite fashion brands score on climate card? Quite bad
Sports brands fare better than fast fashion ones on climate commitments as well as switch to low-carbon materials in manufacturing
Green hydrogen can drive India’s transition to clean energy, combat climate change
By 2030, the cost of green hydrogen is expected to compete with that of hydrocarbon fuels
Factsheet: Climate change FAQs
Climate change refers to a change of climate attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global …
Trump’s remark on India’s coal usage highly misleading
This is the second time that US has blamed India and China for pulling out of the climate agreement
Why Trump is a bad businessman
By pulling out of Paris Agreement, US loses an opportunity to expand clean energy markets and create jobs
