Study warns of new warming records this winter, driven by El Nino, long-term global warming trend

June-October 2023 surpassed the 1991-2020 average by 0.57℃

World needs over $75 bn for a 75% slash in energy-related methane emissions

Abating methane can have a relatively quick impact on reducing global warming

Walkmans and burgers: the primal market

The late founder editor of Down To Earth on environmental truths that endure to this day, over three decades later

COP28 Diary (December 10, 2023): New GGA draft weaker than previous text, countries talk about finance gaps at Majlis

Parties still not on same page about responsibilities in GST text; final texts on carbon market expected December 11

7th GEF Assembly: Global Biodiversity Framework Fund ratified

First projects under the new Fund likely to roll out ahead of CBD’s CoP16 

COP28 Diary (December 9): Baku to host COP29; Africa wants robust GGA

The Netherlands heads a joint ministerial statement on phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; massive global build-out of liquified natural gas …

Option in Global Stocktake draft opens possibility of including India, China in list of historical emitters of greenhouse gases

Finance and coal phase out are other red lines in text for several developing countries, say experts

2023 in a blink: Climate, weather records that broke this year

Down To Earth recaps climate stories that broke records

Climate change: If warming approaches 2°C, a trickle of extinctions will become a flood

If all national plans to cut emissions are fulfilled, world would still be on track for 2.5-2.9°C of global warming by end of century

Simply Put: Climate change vaccine

DTE Diary: Our daily account of what happened at COP28

The CSE-DTE team tracked the major happenings on each day of the UNFCCC COP28 in Dubai

COP28: In Dubai, PM Modi offers to host COP33 in India

PM responds obliquely to allegation of increasing coal use in India; claims leadership in countering carbon emissions

Last 12 months were the warmest in 125,000 years

Temperatures 1.3°C above the pre-industrial era since November 2022

The Great Barrier Reef’s latest bout of bleaching is the fifth in eight summers – the corals now have almost no reprieve

We can expect heavy losses of corals to occur on hundreds of individual reefs over the next few months

Child poverty a global concern

It is time poverty alleviation policies and programmes get child-centric, to lay a solid foundation for a future generation that is healthy and …

Simply Put: The new normal

Brazil GEF meet: Agreement on new biodiversity conservation fund; to be ratified in August

Indigenous peoples and local communities to get 20 per cent of the funds

How 2023’s record heat worsened droughts, floods and bushfires around the world

These events showed how climate change is affecting the global water cycle and our livelihoods

COP28: Additions and deletions make new GGA text a ‘scary’ one

This is a developed country tactic that has been used before. It was also used during the negotiations on the Loss and Damage Fund at COP27 last year

Simply Put: Global plastic treaty

COP28 diary (December 4): Developing countries reject GGA draft, vote of support for rechanneling Special Drawing Rights

New Global Stocktake text to be published December 5, World Bank announces 5 new initiatives

Self-withering: Biodiversity Convention’s new global framework raises basic questions

Fairness and North-South balance embedded in the treaty made the West uncomfortable with it

COP28: Global Stocktake ‘building blocks’ struggling to take shape

The GST is expected to produce its final agreed text over the weekend

Savage mode: In a warmer, wetter world, pests are multiplying faster and damaging crops severely

If such attacks increase, it will affect the critical food supply and overall yield

Simply Put: Warming hills