International Mountain Day: Highland people to face vagaries of weather, food insecurity

Released on the occasion of Mountain Day, two reports highlight climate threats to high altitude areas

We need to convince the world about 1.5 degrees when there is still a lot of quibbling about 2

J.R. Nereus O Acosta Secretary Office of the Presidential Adiviser for Environmental Protection, Philippine on the new momentum at COP21 to …

I (don’t) care

Poland is not the only problem. Every developed country is now going back on its past commitments

Visible impact

Scientists and policymakers may choose to believe global warming is too remote to worry about, a mere projection by a computer that often can't …

Polarised

Is global warming for real? Is it natural, or human-caused? Who will benefit from its effects? Suffer? The scientific debate on climate change …

‘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 …

Hot and anxious

Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of …

What happened to the Mayas?

With its awe-inspiring architecture and remarkable concepts of astronomy, the Maya was undoubtedly one of the greatest civilisations of …

Countries haven’t done enough to combat climate change: Figueres

Future of Kyoto Protocol the focus of Panama climate meet

Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

World gets a yellow card

The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …

Climate pledges lacking: 87% of remaining global carbon budget to limit warming may be depleted by 2030, finds UN

Emissions will only be 2% lower in 2030 than 2019 levels if fully implemented

Sonam Wangchuk is right. All is not well with Ladakh’s glaciers

In October 2021, 31 glacial lakes and water bodies showed an increase in area by 20%, found CSE & DTE’s State of India’s …

Lost and damaged

Negotiations on loss and damage signal a weak deal

2nd coalition of the willing: bad for climate and for us

The US and us

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 …

Getting Amazon to pay its taxes could be Jeff Bezos’ biggest climate action

Climate justice demands democratic oversight over efforts to overcome mankind’s biggest challenge

Post-Paris climate: the ‘historic’ Agreement

The absence of the term ‘carbon space’ in the Paris Agreement is a reason to worry as this will hurt India in the long run

Solar alliance to be part of India-Africa Forum Summit

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to announce a global alliance of almost 110 countries to encourage implementation of solar power to …

UNEP launches coalition to promote renewable energy

Move aimed at developing policies that enable and encourage renewables and increased energy efficiency

All about climate

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