Double financing for natural ecosystems by 2025 to deal with climate, biodiversity crises: UN report
Current global investments in nature-based solutions $154 billion per year, needs to be $384 billion
Third of Amazon rainforest lost or degraded: Report
Climate change is a growing global concern that jeopardises the Amazon’s biodiversity
High Road to Dubai COP28: Global Stocktake talks enter final phase
Developing countries, led by the G-77 and the Like-minded Group of Countries, argued why the outcome of the global stocktake process should be …
COP27 diary (November 14): Global shield against climate risks for loss and damage launched
A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit
COP27: Climate vulnerable countries, G7 launch plan for quick loss and damage funding
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Fiji, Senegal, Philippines and Ghana will be among the first countries to receive assistance from the Global …
Loss and damage funding officially included in COP27 agenda
Loss and damage financing has been a long-standing demand of developing and vulnerable countries including India
Talks progress slowly at Bonn, focus shifts to next COP at Marrakesh
Adaptation, finance, pre-2020 actions and loss and damage should remain the core agenda for the next Conference of Parties
Hudhud: Modi announces Rs 1,000 crore interim aid for Andhra Pradesh
State assesses initial damage assessed at over Rs 43,000 crore, excluding crop damage
What happened at CoP26: A complete report card
Glasgow Climate Pact dismisses climate justice as a concept that is important only for some
Paris finance meet: Momentum builds for polluter taxes to fund green transition
Panellists discuss shipping and airline levies, financial transaction taxes and fossil fuel taxes at Pact Summit
Extreme weather in India: Heavy rains, floods on 18 days of rainfall-deficient November 2022
The events in November were spread across 12 states / Union territories, most of them in South Peninsula & Northwest regions
UN climate talks: G77 and China stage walk-out over Loss and Damage
Developed countries want the matter be discussed only after 2015
High road to Dubai COP28: Major differences remain as Bonn climate meet concluded on June 15
Many of the crucial agenda items, such as the Global Stock Take, Global Goal on Adaptation and the hosting of the Santiago Network for Loss and …
Climate negotiations moving at a slow pace, but seemingly in the right direction
Loss and damage continues to be a contentious issue while multiple spin-offs have slowed down the process
Drafting the Paris agreement: the week that was
Draft text adopted, but many issues need resolving
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 …
Sunita Narain highlights hits and misses of Paris climate deal
The agreement has come after an intense two weeks of negotiations and represents a lot of compromises made, particularly by developing countries &…
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
Paris finance meet: What is the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact about?
Discussions on how to reform Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) to better serve the needs of the Global South will be in spotlight
COP27 diary (November 10): Rich countries admit funding gap in addressing loss & damage
What negotiations mean for least developed countries
They insist that loss and damage is a non-negotiable element of the Paris agreement
NGOs to boycott climate talks
Civil society groups express unhappiness over developed countries and Poland blocking negotiations
UN climate talks end with no takeaways
Only a weak agreement on mechanism to fund ‘loss and damage’
COP27 must be remembered as ‘Implementation COP’, says Sameh Shoukry
The developing world’s first COP since Marrakesh in 2016 must implement the ‘Paris Rulebook’