‘Global commons’: Indo-Bangla consensus on need to highlight climate impact, loss & damage in Sundarbans globally

UN Loss and damage discussion progressing slowly; experts favour wider sourcing and innovative funding for Sundarbans      

Climate adaptation to cost India Rs 85.6 lakh crore by 2030: RBI

Sector-specific climate mitigation strategies can address the crisis in India to an extent

Climate Crisis: IPCC Synthesis Report says the vulnerable are suffering the maximum losses and damages

Global temperature rise may touch 1.5 degree by 2030 and India is experiencing high loss and damage; say experts

Abandonment, poverty, sexual exploitation: Why Indian women pay a higher price for climate crisis

Women have limited ability to overcome climate shocks compared to their male counterparts: It is an uneven playing field. But a gradual …

'CoP26 must deliver to help developing countries deal with loss and damage'

Down To Earth spoke to Sunil Acharya, regional advisor on climate and resilience at Practical Action on loss and damage negotiations at Glasgow

COP24: Nationally determined contributions and search for common time frames in Katowice

Time is running out and negotiators are still not happy. What will be the fate of the Paris Rule Book?

Here's why the latest push for pre-2020 action at COP23 is likely to fall flat

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad stressed on the importance of meeting pre-2020 commitments on which there has been little progress so far

US provides more than $20-billion subsidy to fossil fuel industry each year

Apart from disrupting the process of meeting global climate targets, it undermines the steps taken at states and cities level to address climate …

India’s forest cover goes up by nearly 3% this decade; but all is not well

'Very dense forests', which absorb maximum carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, increased by a mere 1.14 % between 2017 and 2019, according …

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Madrid, the longest CoP ever, ends in disappointment

Never-before-seen disconnect between what climate science and people demand and what governments deliver on display at the summit

India, please don't make the same mistakes we made in industrialised world: Swiss President

President Leuthard urged India to explore the possibility of close collaboration between research institute and policymakers on clean energy

Is Trump doing what his people want?

Seven in ten registered voters of the United States want the country to participate in the Paris Agreement 

Globally supported agricultural insurance mechanism must for developing nations: CSE

Unaffordability is one of the main reasons why farmers are not warming up to the idea of agricultural insurance

COP 22: India not happy with the mode of work under APA

According to India, the progress report was mitigation-centric and did not capture the range and depth of discussions held during deliberations

Africa Carbon Forum to discuss the continent's prospects post-COP21

A World Bank analysis estimated that not addressing climate change could plunge 43 million people into poverty by 2030 in Africa

REDD and REDD +: An Overview

Shankar Gopalakrishnan, from the Campaign for Survival and Dignity, stresses that REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest …

After Copenhagen: What's on the Agenda? (II)

The Centre for Science and Environment recently held a climate change media workshop to brief South Asian journalists on the politics of …

Climate Crisis: Increased evidence of maladaptation, says IPCC Synthesis Report

India has many examples of maladaptation, making vulnerable communities becoming more helpless to climate impact

South Asia headed for longer heat waves, warm spells

Special report on managing risks of extreme events and disasters recommends change in policy approach

COP27 diary (November 16): ‘$100 billion in climate finance more of gesture from rich countries’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit

Beyond a green thumb: Green India Mission needs a fresh agenda to meet Nationally Determined Contribution targets

At present, GIM communication is limited to the number of saplings and survival rates, which is not enough

Net Zero 2050: Swiss vote for clean energies over fossil fuels

Proposal to cut carbon dioxide emissions, accelerate renewables receives almost 60% votes

What is the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on Climate Finance and why is it so important?

Scaling up private finance is crucial to bridge funding gap for climate change projects

India’s climate pledges need a staggering $10 trillion financial investment, about three times the country’s GDP

Climate change: If warming approaches 2°C, a trickle of extinctions will become a flood

If all national plans to cut emissions are fulfilled, world would still be on track for 2.5-2.9°C of global warming by end of century