Tax super rich to pay Global South for climate damages: Open letter to world leaders by economists ahead of Paris talks
Just a 2 per cent tax on extreme wealth can raise $2.5 trillion a year which can be diverted to loss & damage fund
How droughts can leave people with nowhere to go
Those most affected by climate-induced droughts risk being trapped due to a lack of resources and networks to migrate
WMO confirms 2020 heat record in Siberian town
Verkhoyansk, a town in Siberia, recorded a temperature of 38°C June 20, 2020 — the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic …
Climate Emergency CoP 25: India suffered maximum number of climate-related fatalities in 2018
The report, which revealed the figures, was released in Madrid and has bolstered demands for implementing the ‘Loss and Damage’ mechanism
Doha Getaway: World on line for new regime, US on track to escape
Two weeks of intense climate negotiations ended rather dramatically at Doha on December 8, 2012.
India should not support the Copenhagen Accord, says CSE
Copenhagen Accord is weak, meaningless and fundamentally flawed. It will be bad for the fight against climate change and bad for India.
The theory sinks
Two new studies quash industrialised countries hopes of meeting most of their Kyoto commitments by using carbon sinks
The logjam continues
George W. Bush gets a hostile reaction from the European Union on his stubborn stand regarding the Kyoto Protocol
Rising surface temperature threatens Africa's blue economy
Even as West Africa struggles to plug rampant illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, rising sea surface temperature poses new challenges
We will keep moving forward on climate action: UNFCCC after Trump’s executive order
Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa says the new US administration remains a Party to the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement
Is the US on a bilateral agreement spree over climate change?
USA and China have entered into a bilateral pact to sign the Paris Agreement on April 22
Climate change is the most impactful risk in 2016: World Economic Forum
Climate change will also aggravate water and agriculture crises, conflicts and forced migration
New Zealand unanimously passes climate change law
Centre-right opposition National Party backs Jacinda Ardern govt in legislation towards zero carbon
African cities call for local climate action, adaptation finance
The Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa encourages local authorities to make a political commitment for access to energy, climate mitigation …
COP24: World is politically unwilling to fight climate change
India manages to climb three spots and is ranked 11th in this year’s Climate Change Performance Index
COP23: Parties arrive at consensus on key decisions on pre-2020 climate actions
A draft decision on the implementation and ambition of pre-2020 climate actions has emerged
Commitments under Paris deal one-third of what is needed: UN Emission Gap Report 2017
If the emission gap is not closed by 2030, it is extremely unlikely that the goal of restricting global warming to well below 2°C can be met
Sea level changes that occurred 6,000 years ago may happen again; Southeast Asia at risk
Natural causes can further aggravate the effects of rise in sea level combined with human-assisted climate change
Muted presence
India's participation at the recently concluded 22nd Conference of Parties was passive and lacked vision
COP 22: US must respect climate change commitments, says French President
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hoped that climate action will be implemented with swiftness and special focus on equity and justice
‘Human influence behind warmer and bigger Indo-Pacific warm pool'
A new study shows that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions have led to the warming of the Indo-Pacific warm pool which can cause changes in …
Does tourism really suffer at sites listed as World Heritage In Danger?
Three other famous tourist destinations have also been in the spotlight of the World Heritage Committee, with little indication that this has …
Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement starts functioning in Bonn
The working group's mandate, among others, is to elaborate on modalities and make critical arrangements on global stock take which will take …
Taking stock of the Paris climate debate
Climate change is about two things: mitigating the global warming effect and adapting to the changed climate
Meet the fossil fuel firms sponsoring the world's biggest climate conference
Not surprisingly, many of the sponsors here at the Paris talks are French companies who have hoped to acquire reputational capital from the summit