Flood-protection measures: Pakistan is in for a long haul

Punjab needs to employ 871 years of flood-protection, while other flood-prone provinces like Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh would require around …

Joe Biden’s climate plan is investing too little in climate action

While the spending figure needs to be much higher, there is scope to keep up the pressure, both from domestic groups as well as international entities

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Protesters thrown out of venue for opposing slow progress in talks

Protesters have repeatedly pointed out the disconnect between the reality of climate change and the slow pace of negotiations without any …

Cost of mitigation: How cheap can it be

All discussions, efforts and side events in Poznan are held with a single point agenda of getting the developing nations to take up some …

The latest Indaba text: bad for the developing world

It only allows developed countries to continue polluting and shift the burden of mitigation to the developing countries

Warsaw Climate Talks: Day 11, November 21

China reminds parties of equity being key at Durban and the mandate for a workshop on equity and equitable access to sustainable development

Carving the carbon cake

NGOs literally cut up a carbon cake and distrbuted crumbs to the G77 president while the US delegates refused to accept their overwhelming portion.

Drought causes Bundelkhand’s farmers to turn defaulters

In Uttar Pradesh’s portion of the Bundelkhand region, farmers’ lands are being auctioned due to their inability to pay loans

Just 5 countries have 70% of world’s remaining wilderness: study

Climate change impacts can worsen if wilderness is not protected immediately on a global level, says the study published in Nature

Six months after including agriculture in climate negotiations, Parties agree on roadmap

Over the next two and half years, the negotiating group will meet five times to discuss and prepare reports on the work required for each of the …

BASIC nations concerned over gaps in pre-2020 climate actions, urge developed world to take lead

Ministers from BASIC nations urge developed countries to honour their commitments and increase climate finance to at least $100 billion per annum …

Climate change constitutes double-edged sword for Africa: ECA

Climate change could usher in a new model of sustainable development, but, on other hand, it could also decimate African fragile economies

Asia Pacific Climate Change Forum: community involvement key to successful adaptation

Hundreds of delegates have gathered at the 5th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Colombo

Convention must not be rewritten, assert developing countries at COP

At a high-level meet in Paris, the countries pushed for equal treatment of mitigation and adaptation in the final deal

Now, a web tool to help estimate forest biomass and carbon stock

The updated GlobAllomeTree tool provides access to expansive data that may aid mitigation plans for climate change

CSE urges rich countries to pay their dues ahead of crucial UN climate talks in Bonn

Means of implementation from developed to developing countries must be prioritised, think tank underlines

Cyclones and the threat to delta population

Extreme weather events cause huge loss of lives, livestock and household assets 

HFC Phase down negotiations to continue in Geneva

Negotiations to focus mainly on HFC phase down and amendment proposals

COP28: Article 6 negotiations see late night deliberations striving to find consensus

Parties also discussed the definition of cooperative approaches

COP28: A key negotiation highlights countries’ challenges with scaling up mitigation ambition

The Mitigation Work Programme produced a report from discussions this year on how countries can take more action to mitigate emissions

Simply Put: Bonn climate meet

Climate change mitigation: Flood insurance scheme launched to protect small farmers in Kenya

Farmers, experts welcome move, call it ‘game changer’

Economic Survey 2019-20: Need was to get serious about climate crisis

Listing ‘green’ programs is not the point

Climate Emergency CoP 25: New platform linking oceans and climate launched in Madrid

The new platform aims to integrate sensible ocean-based solutions into climate targets

G8 push for climate funds