‘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 …
Who wants what, and how?
The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) met recently in Bonn, Germany. These were the first …
The World Bank sees money in emissions trading
Daphne Wysham is the co-author of a recent report, The World Bank and the G-7: Changing the Earth's Climate for Business . She is also the …
"The DANGER to FORESTS is not over"
The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) met from June 2-12 1998 in Bonn, Germany. A good …
Newest Biggest Deal
In Kyoto, in 1997, nations of the world agreed the Clean Development Mechanism (cdm) was a competent way to combat climate change. The process …
Time-out
The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and …
Participants at Bonn climate talks keen to build on renewable energy sector
The delegate from Mali presented a model for renewable energy partnership proposal and called for worldwide cooperation and resource mobilisation
Spreading myths of money
The US is making a concerted effort to break down India's stand on climate change, with the active support of some Indian ngo s and business groups
Wait and watch
The us government is in transition. But why should the rest of the world suffer?
UNFCCC Pre-COP: Restoring faith needs proactive agenda on loss and damage
Loss and damage offers the process of the UN body an opportunity to signal desperately needed empathy with the most vulnerable
‘China’s INDCs, although ambitious, will not keep temperature rise below 2 degree celsius’
Although it is doing more than the US and EU, China’s total emissions in 2030 will still be very high, says non-profit Centre for Science …
Climate Change Quiz: How much do you know about the climate crisis?
The Climate Change Quiz is a step towards creating awareness on the climate crisis. Take the quiz and check out your climate change quotient.
The UN Production Gap report clarifies the need for fossil fuel non-proliferation
Its assessment of energy trends is far more responsible than the International Energy Agency’s
Conditions to aid and trade
World Resources Institute objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting developing countries into reducing greenhouse gas emissions
We need to act NOW: UN climate change body turns 25
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change celebrated its 25th anniversary on 21 March, 2019. Here's what UN Climate Change …
IPCC Special Report: Why sector-specific vision for 1.5°C is important
Sector-based analysis in IPCC Special Report offers an alternative vision for limiting warming to 1.5°C
What will Brexit mean for the climate?
After Brexit, the UK will have to ratify the Paris Agreement on its own, and produce its individual NDC
‘There is more global investment in renewable energy than in fossil fuel’: UNFCCC
The current level of carbon pricing is unfair, where the polluter is not paying but is being rewarded
UN communicates negotiating text for Paris climate agreement to all nations
Christiana Figueres urges for early resolution of the outstanding issues and to seek common ground on unresolved issues
India insists on draft agreement for pre-2020 climate actions at Bonn
While the EU said it did not want a detailed discussion on pre-2020 actions, India pushed for a draft "negotiating text"
Climate change: It’s all about money
Climate finance can no longer be the money that goes to only increase the indebtedness of countries and makes them even more vulnerable to the …
COP 26: Contentious issues of finance, carbon markets pushed to week 2
CoP26 President Alok Sharma reported progress made during week one in Glasgow in an informal stocktaking plenary November 8
New CoP 26 Glasgow president: Alok Sharma distracts from national ambition
Nature-based solutions and Net Zero are welcome and adaptation finance is crucial. But they must not distract from enhancing countries’ …
Real state of India’s forests
India has been trying to achieve to put 33 per cent of its geographical area under forest, but the latest report shows that it is yet to reach 22 …
Confusion over editing of the agreement text slowed things down during week one
With less than 15 days of negotiations left, parties at the Bonn climate change conference were urged to speed things up