Who are the top greenhouse gas emitters?
This animation shows which countries have been the top greenhouse gas emitters since the beginning of the industrial revolution and their …
Bonn Climate Conference begins with tense stand-off on ‘Loss and Damage’
Developing countries complained about inadequate focus on loss and damage and climate adaptation
By 2030, early warnings on floods and droughts to be available for all: WMO
World Meteorological Congress endorses Water and Climate Coalition for promoting sharing and access to integrated hydrological, cryosphere, …
Greta seeks honesty from world leaders at CoP 26
This story originally appeared in Reuters and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global media collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate …
Battling Climate Change
Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will toimplement them is missing
Deep Impact shallow response
Climate change will trigger a series of ecological and economic fall-outs for India. Though details remain fuzzy largely due to the apathy of …
Per capita emissions of nations should converge by 2050, says UK commission
The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution supports the Southern demand for equity in climate negotiations. Will the UK government adopt the …
Touchy Technology
Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report on Methodological and Technological Issues …
Will the mother of all deals be on sinks?
At CoP deals are being made behind closed doors and there is suspicion that the mega-deal will be on sinks despite the fact that it may not make …
Children's Camaraderie for Climate Change
Children join hands with CSE to talk of climate change, carbon emissions and global environment governance
India demands removal of rosewood from CITES
It contends that trade of the plant species doesn’t need to be regulated as it grows at a very fast rate and is not threatened
COP24: Developing world continues to seek funds for agriculture
Nations participating in the conference discussed climate change impacts on agriculture at a workshop in Katowice
COP24: Will Katowice deliver ambitious outcomes?
As the Conference of Parties starts at Poland’s Katowice, scientific findings must guide negotiations. It is very important that the …
Bangkok climate intersession: Tough task for Parties ahead
Parties have to come up with a clear negotiating text for creation of rule book to implement the Paris Agreement
Did developing countries miss the trick at Bonn?
While going on an overdrive to push pre-2020 climate action, the developing countries have perhaps lost precious time and initiative to focus on …
COP 22: India urges developed nations to adhere to the principle of 'Climate Justice'
Environment minister Anil Madhav Dave says developed nations need to provide effective finance, technology transfer and capacity building support
COP 22: more than 20 nations sign framework agreement on International Solar Alliance
International Solar Alliance is an initiative by India wherein 121 solar resource-rich countries have come together
World will witness 2.9 to 3.4°C temperature rise even if Paris deal fully implemented
The rate of global GHG emissions increase during the period 2000 to 2010 was faster than what was during 1970 to 2000
Natural disasters force 26 million people into poverty each year: World Bank
The extreme natural disasters also cause a US$520-billion loss in annual consumption globally
Current draft text “inequitable, weak and unambitious”, says CSE
The Delhi-based non-profit said that rich nations had been misappropriating the carbon space, leaving no chance for developing countries to …
Will the Paris climate deal include issue of forced climate migration?
Experts say that displacement and migration occurs because of the failure of adaptation in most vulnerable countries and, therefore, should be …
Who is afraid of transparency?
Flaring up issues of transparency and reporting of climate actions could be a tactic by developed nations to divert attention from more …
MOP concludes with hope to bring amendment to phase down HFCs in 2016
Parties succeed in laying a path for the functioning of contact group on the feasibility and ways of managing HFCs in Montreal Protocol.
A farce of a face-off
For 10 days in Kyoto the world saw highly moral arguments put forward by world leaders to save the planet. But behind all those arguments was …
What is CoP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit
CoP26 will be a complex process, but it’s how international law and institutions can help solve problems that no single country can fix on …