How Bhutan is grappling with climate change

Ugyen Tshewang, secretary, National Environment Commission of Bhutan, speaks to Ankur Paliwal on the effects of climate change and how the …

US undercutting post-Kyoto talks

Extreme heat and rain: Thousands of weather stations show there’s now more of both, for longer

Unusually warm days are becoming more common throughout Australia; New Zealander also experiencing more days with temperatures 25℃ or more

Bundelkhand's dalit women join hands to drought-proof their villages

96 women-led pani panchayats take over water resource management

No cheap change is possible

Durban turning futile as EU buries head in sand

With the carbon market in doldrums, emerging economies like India will have to announce bolder schemes for a low carbon future

No climate for cleantech

Most of the clean energy innovations are with just six rich countries and hardly any technology is coming to developing nations

Climate inaction

The world can help its climate crisis — by giving more power to women

Climate change worsens women’s plight: When it causes natural resources to become scarce, traditional gender roles intensify 

What do science-based targets to limit climate change really look like?

Commitment to climate justice demands that rich countries make deeper cuts to their emissions than merely equalising per-capita emissions by 2030

Climate deal signed in Paris is weak and unambitious: CSE

The phrase ‘historical responsibility’ has been erased from the Agreement. This weakens the obligations of developed countries, says …

Cant miss the bus

Climate financing adds to poor countries’ debt pile: Oxfam

Eighty per cent of climate financing was provided as loans in 2017-18, according to study

Last call to get climate deal right

US, China to work together on phasing down HFCs

India cautious in response; to disclose stand in Bangkok end of June

From the dirtiest to the cleanest: Mexico City’s journey

Mexico City is today recognised as one of the cleanest cities in the world, and the credit for this goes to Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon who recently …

We need to treat extreme events as connected, not as anomalies

Clear trends of interconnected extreme weather events intensifying and becoming more frequent can be seen across the world as the climate crisis …

Another co2alition of the willing?

2009 is full of promise

What Durban did not discuss

IPRs are blocking access to mitigation and adaptation technologies. India offers a way out

Insect attacks affected 142 mn ha forest between 2003 and 2012: Report

The State of the World’s Forests report warned climate change will exacerbate wildfires and pest attacks in the future

Climate talks in Bonn conclude but no deal in sight

To revise or not to revise Annexes remains the central divisive issue

On mitigation

Who will take the lead in mitigation? Will developed countries, with their historical responsibility, take the lead? Or, will it fall on emerging …

On means of implementation (finance, technology transfer and capacity building)

As outlined in Article 4.7 of the Convention, developing countries need support for finance, technology and capacity. Without these, the …

On Adaptation

Adaptation must be central to the new deal, everyone agrees. Differences arise when the issue of financing adaptation arises. If past experience …