Factsheet: Agriculture and forestry

Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) is a broad category of emissions that has been used by the IPCC since 2006. It widely used in …

Can UK environment survive Brexit onslaught?

Following Brexit, the UK will no longer be under obligation to adhere to progressive policies on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and …

Factsheet: Energy efficiency of appliances

According to the Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association, consumer electronics and appliances in India is a 45,000-crore-…

Agriculture census will help Asia-Pacific countries achieve zero hunger challenge

Agricultural censuses are sources of structural information that, through comparison at different points of time, can contribute to the …

Clouds can close gaps between highest and lowest temperatures in a day

Clouds serve as an atmospheric blanket that controls the Earth’s surface temperature

US emissions inflict $1.9 trillion in global losses

A report found that the emissions caused by the US has inflicted severe losses on poorer countries through heatwaves, crop failures and other …

Factsheet: Who is emitting

As per World Resources Institute's Climate Analysis Indicators Tools

Industry lobbyists deny GHG emission from meat production, blame small herders

Methane, the major GHG from livestock, remains in the atmosphere for only 10 years but traps 28 times more heat than CO2

Breaching the threshold

How do we sustain our consumption patterns? And how can we feed the 1.2 billion living in poverty?

Greenwash

Can Bio-CNG click: Here is a look into the challenges faced by this technology

High capital investment is also stopping small investors from entering the CBG scene

‘The expectation that burden of US inaction will be borne by developing countries is unfair’

Given its economic capacity and carbon debt it owes the world, US should not emit any carbon in the future at all.  

EU cannot use ‘nature-based solutions’ to make up for lack of emissions cuts

Over-estimating the potential of such solutions is bad for biodiversity and the climate

"Differentiation" heats up in Poznan

Meeting in the contact group on the Long Term Cooperative actions, countries push and resist the moves to divide developing countries – the …

Climate Change Negotiations: from New Delhi to Milan

The Ninth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), also known as COP-9, is being held in …

Deal or No Deal

Governments are scheduled to meet in Marrakech later this month to further the Kyoto process, designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in …

Green business

The EU proposes to start emissions trading in 2005

NGOs in glass houses

Northern NGOs should focus on getting their own countries to meet commitments, rather than coming up with unfair methods of reducing emissions in …

Consenting adults in a hot world

Since we are all humans, and all equal, the question comes down to whether in the process of climate negotiations we are going to act like a …

Factsheet: Who is emitting what

As per the latest data, China, comprised of 19.2 percent of the world’s population, was the  world’s leading emitter of …

Factsheet: Who is emitting?

As per analysis of the Washington DC-based global research organisation World Resources Institute (WRI) for 2011, China, comprising almost 20 per …

Yes, Arctic's freakishly warm winter is due to humans' climate influence

The end of 2016 has brought balmy Arctic temperatures and record low ice extent for the time of year

Arctic warming at least twice as fast as rest of the world: NOAA report

Persistent warming and loss of sea ice in Arctic is triggering release of trapped carbon into atmosphere

HFC phase down amendment favourable but not perfect

Questions around financing and acquisition of new generation fluoro-chemicals still remain

Transformation in agriculture needed to cope with climate change

A FAO report points out that a “business as usual” scenario can increase the number of poor by between 35 and 122 million by 2030 …