Research can play a crucial role in combating desertification: Experts
Synergy between scientists, government and farming communities can help reclaim degraded lands
George Bush: "I oppose the Kyoto Protocol"
The leader of the most polluting country in the world claims global warming treaty is "unfair" because it excludes India and China
Why welcome trouble?
What induced the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to issue a statement endorsing a plan that could result in loss of human life, and have …
How communities in China helped keep desertification at bay
A fast-ageing population could deter efforts to achieve the United Nation’s target of zero land degradation by 2030
Response: Equity is not the only way
Here at the Centre for Science and Environment we have received some responses to Equity Watch and its articles.
Conditions to aid and trade
World Resources Institute, a Washington-based non-government organisation, objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting developing …
Small country, big example
St. Lucia shows the way at a meeting of politicians and NGOs that was sponsored by the Global Commons Institute, GLOBE, CSE, Climate Network …
CoP26 slideshow: Environment and development changes in a climate-risked world
Climate change is real; and it is important to understand its various manifestations to combat it. Sunita Narain presents a slideshow to cut …
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
Boiling point
Greenhouse gas emissions could raise global temperatures much more than previously forecast leading to drought and flooding as weather patterns …
New ‘Race to Zero’ campaign needs to leverage optimistic messaging into concrete climate action
Messaging needs to be leveraged to put pressure on holdout national governments to increase climate ambition
COP27 must be remembered as ‘Implementation COP’, says Sameh Shoukry
The developing world’s first COP since Marrakesh in 2016 must implement the ‘Paris Rulebook’
COP27 diary (November 7): ‘World on a highway to climate hell, with our foot on the accelerator’
A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit
COP 26 deferred for COVID-19: 2020 remains critical for climate policy
New national targets are due and novel coronavirus pandemic response is not an excuse for fossil fuel subsidies
What do science-based targets to limit climate change really look like?
Commitment to climate justice demands that rich countries make deeper cuts to their emissions than merely equalising per-capita emissions by 2030