Paris finance meet: Key takeaways from a summit that showed the scale of the challenge ahead

The summit did not precipitate any transformational solutions, but it started a conversation on the climate and development financing crisis, and …

Dealing with waste

On the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention, member states reiterate the need to minimise the generation of hazardous waste

The rich are enjoying themselves at the expense of poor people's health

Karen E Smoyer of the University of Alberta, Canada, has been working on the impact of poor environment on the weaker sections of society. …

Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Funding to developing nations declines 15% despite international pledges, rising costs

Neither domestic nor private funding sources could help bridge the adaptation finance gaps, report notes

Lost and damaged

Negotiations on loss and damage signal a weak deal

Noise and a sane voice

Whose CARBON hypocrisy?

Should Northern groups campaign to stop fossil fuel funding in the South?

Half-measure

NAFTA tribunal's ban on potential carcinogen leaves larger environmental issues unaddressed

Post-Paris climate: the ‘historic’ Agreement

The absence of the term ‘carbon space’ in the Paris Agreement is a reason to worry as this will hurt India in the long run

Mixed reactions: COP28 focuses on fossil fuel role in climate change but disregards equity, says CSE

Inclusion of fossil fuels in Global Stocktake important starting point, rest a mixed bag

Award for ecosecurity

For his outstanding work in fighting malaria, V P Sharma gets the Green Scientist Award 2001

Responses to DTE editorial 'No more kindergarten approach to climate change'

What negotiations mean for least developed countries

They insist that loss and damage is a non-negotiable element of the Paris agreement

Developed countries face tough questions on emissions reduction

Inadequacy of targets and discrepancies in reporting highlighted at the first multilateral review of Annexe I parties

Looking for the right bait

Developing countries like India need to be prepared for multilateral negotiations. This is certainly true of the fishing economy

On the impacts of nanotechnology

Barry Castleman, an environmental consultant and expert on workplace health hazards, tells Arnab Pratim Dutta about nanotechnology's impacts

Fuel cell buses for Delhi Going nowhere?

Grants have been approved to facilitate the use of fuel cell buses in the developing countries

Heavy on the purse?

Measuring efficiency of electric appliances fails to take off in India

Climate change now a corporate issue

Leapfrog the chemical treadmill

Go straight to climate-friendly options for refrigerants

Green politics

Is your government signing away your future rights to the world's natural resources?

Less acidic rain

Calcium particles neutralise acid in the atmosphere

India all for CDM

Government endorses six renewable energy projects to be set up with Dutch assistance

The anatomy of congestion

Travel today is relatively faster, and people across the world are travelling more than ever before. But at a giant cost: urban roads are choked …

Declining food imports by most vulnerable countries a cause for concern: FAO

World food import bill to touch record high, but cost-of-living pressures may persist in 2023