Informal stocktaking by CoP President on December 6

We have prepared possible elements of Doha outcome on finance, presented to the Parties and heard their concerns. We look forward to engaging …

Reading tea leaves

As the Copenhagen talks launch, Equitywatch looks at the early signs of where things might be headed</e

The Danish Proposal Surfaces

A secret negotiating text is leaked to the media, and the day goes from dull to anything but.

Small island states make a stand

COP plenary suspended

No Emerging Consensus on Climate Finance

  Eu leaders meet in Brussels to discuss fast track funding for climate change

Four texts

Proposals for the overall architecture of a Copenhagen agreement will be discussed in plenary on Saturday

Halftime

  After two large plenary meetings, informal Ministerial meetings take over

Copenhagen talks in limbo

  Formal negotiations appear suspended as the G77 and China announce a walkout

Warsaw Climate Talks Day 12: November 22

A developing country delegate received message that there has been no progress on long term finance.

CMP from Bella Centre

G77 and China make it clear that they want the leaders to consider only those drafts, which have been negotiated by parties. 

From zero to agreement in nine hours?

Amidst floundering negotiations, Ministers and heads of state appear to be negotiating a draft agreement text face-to-face

Political declaration imminent

Non-legally binding agreement to be announced within the hour

The Kyoto Protocol - Battlefield of Hegemonic Struggles in World Politics

It seems that the European Union (EU) has lost the fight with George W. Bush. By Hermann E. Ott

Solar power in Asia

The Philippines will get a solar power plant with the largest ever capacity in southeast Asia by 2002

WHO launches 'clean air coalition'; new clean air fund to be announced

WHO said Sunday that it was launching a “Clean Air Coalition” led by the Governments of Spain and Peru, while a group of …

12 excuses for climate inaction and how to refute them

Using moral clarity to counter defeatism around the climate crisis  

90 years of desertification

More than 75 per cent of Earth's land area is already degraded and some 418 million hectares, or half of the size of the European Union, is …

Lexical conundrum: Desertification does not allude to deserts

Today, desertification just means a reduction in the productivity of the land that is not reversible

As Amazon burns BlackRock emerges as world’s largest investor in deforestation

The world’s largest institutional investor with US $6.5 trillion in assets is a global leader in financing forest destruction, new report says

Heatwave: think it's hot in Europe? The human body is already close to thermal limits elsewhere

The challenges ahead are stark. Adaptation has its limits. We must therefore slash greenhouse gas emissions to keep to the Paris warming limits

Nepal: A sitting duck for climate disasters

The country’s geography and ever-looming threat of climate change make it very vulnerable

US beekeepers lost 40% honey bee colonies in a year: Survey

Beekeepers lost 37.7 per cent colonies during the winter, between April 2018 and April 2019 — the highest winter decline in the last 13 …

Investors accuse 22 Indian firms for hiding environmental impact

A group of 88 investors have written to corporate giants such as Bharti Airtel, Reliance Industries and 20 others to disclose their impact …

Is the Arabian Sea no longer pacific?

Cyclone patterns and occurrence over India’s western sea show a change and recent data suggests that the previously calm body of water has …

Climate change has a history of disrupting civilisations, study finds

Major shifts in temperature and rainfall in the first millennium affected agriculture and also caused the decline of many indigenous groups in …