Cancun clinches deal—for polluters

Cancun has restored the sanctity of multilateral negotiations under the UN climate convention. People had lost faith in it by the end of the …

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 …

Climate finance needs could cost India 85.6 lakh crore by 2030

Climate adaptation measures need to take into account the infrastructure gap caused by climate events

Benefits of climate adaptation far outweigh costs

The world can accrue net benefits worth $7.1 trillion by spending $1.8 trillion on climate adaptation, according to latest Global Commission on …

Issues at stake in COP 22

The COP summit in Marrakech may be crucial for negotiations on some long-standing issues at the UNFCCC

Make trade work for climate

EU’s carbon border tax won’t take us towards a cooperative world required to combat climate change

A new kind of climate leadership

Today’s climate and environmental movements lack a diversity of perspectives and people, and don’t acknowledge or adequately value …

Planting forests no panacea for the climate crisis: IPCC

The IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land says land-based carbon sinks are not limitless

From Africa, with will

For the first time, African countries flagged off urbanisation as a factor impacting climate change at the recently held Africa Carbon Forum …

On road to resilience

Systematically improving micro-climate at a local level and not depending on global processes could help create a climate-resilient society

Remote Sensing: the biggest tool to study climate change

Jadu Dash is a professor of remote sensing at the faculty of social, human and mathematical sciences within geography and environment at the …

Green Climate Fund and other updates in climate finance

Progress on climate finance remains slow with insuficient funds and delay in implementation

Plan of inaction

How the US president sold an unambitious plan to clean the power sector as historical

Just 3 of every 1,000 queries in Lok Sabha during last 2 decades on climate change: Study

Most of the MPs who asked questions were based in Maharashtra (181), Andhra Pradesh (105), Tamil Nadu (99), Uttar Pradesh (98) and Kerala (69)

Stockholm+50: Little to cheer

The Stockholm Conference of 1972 had put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. Today, over 176 countries have …

Response to climate change is critical as risk of disease outbreaks grows

As East Africa becomes warmer, the threat of climate sensitive diseases such as malaria, Rift Valley Fever and cholera is increasing

COP27: The need for “New Collective Quantified Goal” in Climate Finance

Global South is spending five times more on debt repayments than on addressing the climate crisis's impacts  

Facing disasters: lessons from a Bangladeshi island

To save lives, resiliency plans must understand how locals in climate-vulnerable places assess risk.

Agriculture census will help Asia-Pacific countries achieve zero hunger challenge

Agricultural censuses are sources of structural information that, through comparison at different points of time, can contribute to the …

Holistic approach makes agrarian systems more climate-resilient: Study

Initial watershed development interventions in the studied areas intensified agriculture, but led to declining groundwater tables and …

Ecopoetry is artistic resistance, says K Satchidanandan

In a conversation with Down To Earth, the bilingual poet speaks profoundly on the capitalist idea of development and consumerist madness …

High road to Dubai COP28: Here is what to expect at Bonn on climate mitigation

The Mitigation Work Programme can be a constructive space for developing countries to lay out their financing and technologies needs for an …

Sunita Narain ‘national climate leader’ from India for 2019

Non-profit Climate Scorecard's first National Climate Leader awardee list published in Global Spotlight Report #22 

Greta, 15 other children filed a UN complaint against 5 countries. Here's what it'll achieve

Whether or not the petitioners are successful, the mere act of filing the complaint has already brought the matter into the public eye

Germany to provide Rs 720 crore loan to flood-hit Kerala

The amount would be used to promote climate-resilient transport infrastructure. Besides, a Rs 24 crore grant for international expertise in the …