What we know about Special IPCC report

The world’s biggest peer review report on climate change is expected to be the most controversial and political of recent times

Easy targets

High-income nations across the world appear focused on agriculture as the sector to enforce emissions cut for meeting national climate goals

Climate emergency: A question of semantics?

Framing the changing climate as an emergency is preventing progress towards climate action

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Chile pushes for ambitious outcome in Madrid

However, even as the event reached its last day, resolution of key issues is still awaited

Climate Emergency CoP 25: What exactly are carbon markets?

Rules and guidelines on carbon markets, which trade in 'carbon credits' will be finalised in CoP 25 at Madrid, Spain

Climate Emergency CoP 25: World to warm by 3.2°C

If current national policies the world over persist, global mean temperature will rise by 3.2°C

Climate Emergency CoP 25: A gap that keeps growing

The Emissions Gap Report for this year makes it clear that countries around the world are falling short to reach their targets vis-à-vis …

The wake up call

It’s time we understood that the IPCC's report could be an underestimate of the kind of dangers that await a warmed world and stopped …

Global warming set to breach 1.5 degree limit: IPCC Draft Report

Emission trajectories will have to undergo historic and unprecedented changes if the Paris Agreement is to be adhered, say authors

India needs a strong narrative at COP23 to push its climate goals

Stressing on its success with regard to 2020 commitments would have placed India in a better bargaining position to demand enhanced action from …

COP23 at Bonn: “US still in”, say dissenting senators, but sense of crisis still palpable

Democratic Senators try to assure rest of the world that the people of US are committed to fulfill climate obligations

Marrakech climate talks produced defiance towards Trump, but little else

The latest climate summit generated more questions than answers, particularly on how to handle a Trump-led United States

COP 22: developed countries pledge $23 million to support technology transfer

The pledge, however, does not mean that there shall be a transfer of intellectual property or patents to developing countries

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’  

CSE on CoP 25: What we want on carbon markets

Markets should be focused on transformative mitigation outcomes

Climate Emergency CoP 25: The Paris Agreement is tilting into a downward spiral

Procedural and political developments in Madrid show ominous signs

Climate Emergency CoP 25: What to expect from the second week

Political representatives are faced with some clear, but tough, choices

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Climatic tipping point is closer than we think

Scientists confirm that we are indeed in a climate emergency

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Carbon capture essential to our future

To allow recovery of the atmosphere, storage of CO2 is necessary for 10,000 years

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Will the world be net carbon zero by 2050

To attain the 1.5°C warming target, the world must completely stop using coal

Fiji becomes the first country to ratify Paris Agreement

Fiji has also pledged an unconditional 10 per cent emissions cut by 2030

Everything, everywhere, all as one: how the UN Environment Assembly can steer the world to a sustainable future

This year, we are inviting the multilateral environmental agreements, nations and indeed every actor to come together and find new ways of …

Mature technologies could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from most industrial sectors by 85%: Study

The study, however, looked at decarbonisation solutions that are “technically possible” but did not factor in other barriers related …

Paris Agreement: Five years on, it’s time to fix carbon trading

Setting the rules that govern emissions trading, financing and support for developing countries over 2021 will be critical

Smoking gun letter reveals British CoP president’s 7-point climate action plan

Claire Perry O’Neill’s successor, Britain’s fine civil servants and its first-rate diplomats must work with counterparts in …