UN launches 10 principles to close Asia-Pacific sustainable finance gap
Aimed at mobilising and deploying financing for key Sustainable Development Goals, particularly around climate action
Making cities climate-ready crucial to solving climate crisis: World Bank
Cities in rich countries high emitters, but poorer ones will face most severe climate-related hazards, finds report
What WMO report says on climate trends: Drivers and impacts
2015-2021 will be the warmest years on record, the World Meteorological Organization report flagged
Our cities need big funds to fight climate risks: World Bank
The COVID-19 pandemic added strain to cities’ finances in cities in developing countries; the disruption continues to make planning for …
‘Climate crunch time’: Battle to secure planet’s future will be won or lost in next 18 months, says Antonio Guterres
UN chief urges countries to slash emissions, protect people and nature from climate extremes, boost climate finance and clamp down on fossil fuel …
Tonga’s volcanic eruption could cause unusual weather for the rest of the decade, new study shows
The volcano can explain last year’s extraordinarily large ozone hole, as well as the much wetter than expected summer of 2024
Europe fastest-warming continent, shows WMO 2023 report
European waters were the warmest on record in 2023
Euthanasia for mental disorders: In a warming world, will eco-anxiety lead to more such appeals?
In most assisted dying appeals, people say it is the psychological suffering, rather than physical pain, that motivated them
Extreme weather events most severe global risks over next 10 years: WEF
Through 2026, extreme weather events in top 3 risks in 13 countries; climate tipping points expected to change weather patterns
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 …
Extreme weather is outpacing even the worst-case scenarios of our forecasting models
Hurricane Otis gave Acapulco, Mexico almost no time to prepare
High road to Dubai COP28: What to expect at the upcoming Bonn climate conference
It’s all about the money this year
Most Indians want government to ramp up climate action, reduce emissions urgently: Survey
Many Indians claimed to have been personally affected by climate change
October 2021 was the third-warmest in 142 years
October 2021 was only 0.04°C cooler than October 2015 and 2019
Study links climate change with wheat blast; warns crop yield could drop by 75% in South America, Africa by 2050
Wheat blast-prone locations could increase due to climate impact; global wheat production could drop by 13%
Entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath announces Rs 50 lakh for climate change charity
A recent podcast highlighted global shift in energy system and opportunities it provides to young entrepreneurs
Heatwaves have a cost. Here’s why it’s important to quantify it
Extreme heat is often reported as a “silent killer” because its impacts are much more invisible and silent compared to other natural …
Africa Climate Summit 2023: Renewable energy potential can make the continent energy self-sufficient, says Ruto
Continent’s renewable resources can help other nations achieve their net-zero strategies by 2050
EU climate advisory board recommends reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 90-95% by 2040 from 1990 levels
Of 63 scenarios compatible with the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, 27 had high feasibility concerns
High Road to Dubai COP28: Seven days later, Agenda for SB 58 still not adopted
Parties and chairs of the SBI and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice have gone back into huddles to decide on the way …
Global heating to put 600 million Indians at ‘greatest future risk’: Study
Nearly a billion people could be protected from dangerous heat if countries manage to contain global heating to 1.5C, the threshold of the Paris …
World’s top 21 fossil fuel companies owe $5,444 billion in climate reparations, study says
Coal India Limited was exempted from paying for damages as India’s Gross National Income per capita income is below $4000, researchers said
After catastrophic drought for 6 years, flash floods in Somalia displace 200,000
Floods by ongoing Gu rains destructed Belet Weyne district, Hirshabelle State and Baardheere in Jubaland State, says UN
April 2023 records great variations in temperatures globally: Copernicus
World’s fourth warmest April; 0.32°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average
Climate Crisis: Adaptation limit reached in some parts of the world, shows IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report
The report calls for accelerated actions to bridge funding gap, challenges ‘myth of endless adaptation’