Island voices

Alarm bells

Bali hearing?

South Asia

Please all, blame all

‘Attribution studies help increase awareness about links between human activities and climate change’

Down To Earth talks to Wenxia Zhang, author of paper on attribution of extreme heat & drought events in 2022 at COP28

COP27 diary (November 17): Details on loss and damage facility, phasing out coal missing from ‘Cover Decision’ draft

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

PM’s climate change council has not met in almost 7 years

Who is, then, advising the PM for his climate goal announcements?

Study finds land availability limited to achieve biodiversity targets and apply climate mitigation strategy

Commitment of 120 million sq km for land-based carbon dioxide removal potentially conflicts with “30x30” target

November 2023 was warmest November on record globally, 1.75°C warmer than pre-industrial era: Copernicus

2023 officially warmest year in recorded history

Heatwaves arrive early in 2023; hit 11 states from March 3 to April 18

22 states/UTs recorded above-normal maximum temperature on April 18, 2023

Rewilding Tasmania with emus will be good for the island state’s ecosystems

Why did the Tasmanian emus go extinct and should we reintroduce them?

Only 10 of 46 Least Developed Countries mention loss and damage explicitly in NDCs: Study

IIED urges countries to revise their NDCs before CoP27 and mention losses and damages

More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: The world’s climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news

Especially troubling is the unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019

Doha: inaction in the face of urgency

C for clean

Simply Put: Hotel Naya Kashmir

DTE Coverage: How COP28 negotiated on climate finance, carbon markets and methane

There was ultimately no deal on carbon markets at Dubai; talks have been postponed for Baku

COP28: New Initiative to tackle debt & climate change launched by Kenya, Colombia, France

Countries announce coalition of experts to review linkages between debt, nature and climate change   

Simply Put: Of broken promises

COP28: Global Stocktake ‘building blocks’ struggling to take shape

The GST is expected to produce its final agreed text over the weekend

Climate hazard: Heat-related deaths in elderly population to increase by 370% midcentury in a warming world

On average, 86 days of health-threatening high temperatures were experienced between 2018 and 2022

Cyclone Hamoon makes landfall in coastal Bangladesh

Hamoon underwent rapid intensification from 30 knots to 70 knots in 24 hours

Simply Put: Outdated design

Simply Put: Smart Indian cities