Global Carbon Pricing: The Path to Climate Cooperation
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost …
Old answers for ‘new’ monsoon
Mitigating floods and droughts has only one answer: obsessive attention to building millions and millions of connected and living water structures
We have missed the bus again
Government lost the opportunity of using fiscal signals to discourage polluting technologies and fuels
What Donald Trump's win means for climate change?
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of CSE talks the change in climate change politics after Donald Trump becomes the president of the …
Issues at stake in COP 22
The COP summit in Marrakech may be crucial for negotiations on some long-standing issues at the UNFCCC
Climate Change and Extreme Weather- Beyond Simple Causation: An interview with Krishna Achuta Rao
Krishna AchutaRao is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, IIT Delhi. He talks about the extreme weather events and it's …
Freak Weather and Climate Change 2015: In Conversation with Shreeshan Venkatesh
The year 2015 will be remembered for 'freak weather' events all around the world. Are such events here to stay? A discussion with Science …
'Climate change may render impossible what remains of traditional Inuit life patterns'
Stephen R Bown says 'Father of Eskimology' Knud Rasmussen's writings are literary masterpieces and constitute a priceless contribution to …
International Mountain Day: Highland people to face vagaries of weather, food insecurity
Released on the occasion of Mountain Day, two reports highlight climate threats to high altitude areas
We need to convince the world about 1.5 degrees when there is still a lot of quibbling about 2
J.R. Nereus O Acosta Secretary Office of the Presidential Adiviser for Environmental Protection, Philippine on the new momentum at COP21 to …
'Money in climate fund hardly enough for grassroots programmes'
Lidy Nacpil is the regional coordinator of Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (Philippines)
Increasing ocean acidity will hit the marine food chain, says study
Increasing acidification impacts phytoplankton, which in turn will drastically affect the fish population
I (don’t) care
Poland is not the only problem. Every developed country is now going back on its past commitments
‘Bangladesh a veritable laboratory to study climate change action’
Saleemul Huq is the director at the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) since 2009. Huq is also a senior fellow at …
Hot and anxious
Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of …
What happened to the Mayas?
With its awe-inspiring architecture and remarkable concepts of astronomy, the Maya was undoubtedly one of the greatest civilisations of …
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
Over $9 trillion investments in infrastructure resilience, Net Zero needed by 2050 to mitigate climate impact: CDRI
Climate change may lead to an global average annual loss of over $700 billion in infrastructure sectors and buildings
Ants can’t alter behaviour to deal with warmer climate: Report
Heat stress on the insects will mean higher metabolism and food demands along with a shorter lifespan
Time to abandon UNFCCC to address climate change
The progress made by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change so far and its potential to deliver results in the future looks …
US, equity and the elephants in the room
The issue of sharing the common atmospheric space has been at the core of discussions—the elephant in the room that we want to forget. It …
By 2050, the world will lose $38,000,000,000,000 to climate change, dragging down average income by 19%
Poorest countries may have income reductions 8.9 percentage points greater than richest countries
Your aircon could make 2024 the hottest on record
As the world reels from the hottest year on record, the weather outlook for the future looks grim, with extreme heat set to be unavoidable unless …
High road to Dubai COP28: What to expect at the upcoming Bonn climate conference
It’s all about the money this year
October 2021 was the third-warmest in 142 years
October 2021 was only 0.04°C cooler than October 2015 and 2019