COP 21 and India's plan on climate change: What does it mean for our food systems and cultures?

For any food security strategy for the future to be climate-resilient, it must move away from the industrial, agribusiness model

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Equity Watch

Without a longer-term view, the Paris Agreement will lock in warming for centuries

Oceans will continue to warm from the top down, even if no further emissions are made

Lentil report

Monsoon, sans rain

A tonne of fossil carbon isn’t the same as a tonne of new trees: Why offsets can’t save us

Avoiding the worst of climate change means stopping the extraction and burning of fossil fuels; offsets will not save us

Emissions Gap Report 2022: Pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions way off track

Climate pledges since the Glasgow COP26 last year have shaved off only less than 1% of projected emissions till 2030

Battling Climate Change

Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will toimplement them is missing

Per capita emissions of nations should converge by 2050, says UK commission

The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution supports the Southern demand for equity in climate negotiations. Will the UK government adopt the …

Factsheet: HFCs - Safe for Ozone, yet a Potent Greenhouse Gas

Montreal Protocol, the multilateral treaty to protect the ozone layer, has been a successful environmental agreement. But animpasse over …

Can bicycle sharing reduce global carbon emissions?

Shared bicycles can be part of a more sustainable world; but, ridership needs to expand beyond those who are already committed to a green lifestyle

Climate change could drive coastal food webs to collapse

Benefits of a boost in marine plant growth from increased carbon dioxide will be cancelled out by the increased stress to fish species

N2O emissions from Arctic soils not as low as previously thought: study

Until recently, scientists assumed that nitrous oxide emissions were negligible in colder climate regions like the Arctic and sub-Arctic

After 25 years of trying, why aren’t we environmentally sustainable yet?

New research, looking at dozens of unsuccessful policies, has uncovered the basic elements of failure

Instead of just conserving trees, harvest wood from them: study

Switching to wood from fossil fuels for heating and related combustion purposes can reduce CO2 emissions by about 2 million tonnes each year

Thailand’s largest solar plant gives hope for more private sector projects

By replacing fossil fuels, the solar plant will avoid release of more than 1.3 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into atmosphere over next 25 years

Three reasons to be cheerful about limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees

Amid the gloom, here are some hopeful signs that we can meet our climate obligations

The missing key

Nitrogen dioxide pollution reduces across north equatorial Africa in dry season: Study

The researchers found that the area's socioeconomic development aided the dip in NO2 levels

Do not burden poorer nations, says Vajpayee

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, at the opening of the mninisterial section of Cop 8, said on Wednesday, October 30, that developing …

Factsheet: Carbon budget and INDCs

In its fifth assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published an emission budget which tells us how much CO2 …

Factsheet: What to expect at Peru

Different bodies are mandated to negotiate for different elements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Some …

Letter to the Prime Minister, India

India’s position at the forthcoming conference of parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change

How COP24 plans to make itself sustainable

Carpooling, making up for CO2 emissions among measures taken by UNFCCC and Poland environment ministry

Scientists convert CO2 to solar fuel with artificial photosynthesis

Similar to plants’ photosynthesis, the technology can serve dual purpose of reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and generating electricity …