India will soon play a major role

SIRPA Pietikainen, Finland's environment minister, says the world has quite a few things to learn from India, especially when it comes to …

Leaving their mark

Time for a rethink

The climate regime needs to get out of the rut it is in

COP28: Developed countries owe $500 billion to developing ones under new climate finance goal, finds UNCTAD

Some $250 billion of the $500 billion owed should go to mitigation, $100 billion for adaptation and $150 billion for loss and damage

Only 25 cities responsible for 52% of global urban GHG emissions: Study

Cities in the developed world show higher per capita emissions, according to the study

Being darker makes being a migrant much harder

Migrants from 'developed' economies enjoy more clout

Contracting texts to expand emissions

Southern proposals on equity mysteriously disappear

Reducing anaemia

Time to fight

Surviving on trade

UNITED NATIONS

WTO and drugs

What has Doha done to help poor nations meet their drug needs?

Back to basics

Every taluka in India can meet its own food, water and energy needs

Marooned!

Island states feel isolated

Old whine in new bottle

Debate over fresh IFC guidelines

Climate change

Least polluting countries hit the hardest

News Snippets

The way out of energy and climate change dilemmas

Providing energy to the poor does not make good business. Take electricity. Connecting the 2 billion in the world who do not have access to large …

No Headway

The just-concluded international conference on climate change in Buenos Aires saw the developing countries ranged against the US which was trying …

Green Climate Fund’s breakdown may impact climate action

GCF, the primary vehicle for Paris pact finances, struggles as developed countries don’t seem too keen on donating

Focus on economic diversification imperative to cope with climate crisis: Report

Extreme weather events such as floods, hurricanes can lead to ‘physical stranding’ of natural resources, rendering them impossible …

Bad habits drive health risks among Kenya's urban poor

Poverty and stress is prevalent in Kenya’s low-income settings which increases the behavioural risk factors for cardiovascular diseases

Paving way for a clean future

Released recently, the Bellagio memorandum advocates best practices for policies on vehicular emission reduction worldwide

UN report outlines how developing, developed countries can reduce emissions from constructions

If India uses recycled materials, it could reduce emissions in the material cycle of residential buildings by 50-70 per cent

Sequence for a just future: Can safeguards for digital genomic data from biodiversity be ensured

Developing countries feel digital sequence information provides a loophole through which developed countries can circumvent the Convention …