Scaling up private finance is crucial to bridge funding gap for climate change projects

India’s climate pledges need a staggering $10 trillion financial investment, about three times the country’s GDP

Climate finance needs could cost India 85.6 lakh crore by 2030

Climate adaptation measures need to take into account the infrastructure gap caused by climate events

Benefits of climate adaptation far outweigh costs

The world can accrue net benefits worth $7.1 trillion by spending $1.8 trillion on climate adaptation, according to latest Global Commission on …

Issues at stake in COP 22

The COP summit in Marrakech may be crucial for negotiations on some long-standing issues at the UNFCCC

Stockholm+50: The DTE compendium

Make trade work for climate

EU’s carbon border tax won’t take us towards a cooperative world required to combat climate change

A new kind of climate leadership

Today’s climate and environmental movements lack a diversity of perspectives and people, and don’t acknowledge or adequately value …

Degrowth: Slowing down rich economies to deal with climate change is a flawed idea

The notion of “degrowth” was recently given a platform at European Parliament’s “Beyond Growth” conference

Climate vulnerability maps developed for Himalayan states

Vulnerability to climate change varies from state to state and district to district, it also depends on various socio-economic factors

Simply Put: All talk, no walk

CoP26: China’s plan to cut down its emissions

The painful transition

Bali hearing?

Stockholm+50: Measuring progress will be a big deal

Sustainability will command top priority when the world meets to review Stockholm; post-pandemic recovery must be inclusive

Planting forests no panacea for the climate crisis: IPCC

The IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land says land-based carbon sinks are not limitless

From Africa, with will

For the first time, African countries flagged off urbanisation as a factor impacting climate change at the recently held Africa Carbon Forum …

On road to resilience

Systematically improving micro-climate at a local level and not depending on global processes could help create a climate-resilient society

Remote Sensing: the biggest tool to study climate change

Jadu Dash is a professor of remote sensing at the faculty of social, human and mathematical sciences within geography and environment at the …

Green Climate Fund and other updates in climate finance

Progress on climate finance remains slow with insuficient funds and delay in implementation

Plan of inaction

How the US president sold an unambitious plan to clean the power sector as historical

Fighting global warming may yield health benefits worth trillions

New study finds strongest, potential near-term health benefits in China and India

What the Asia-Pacific needs to leap forward on climate action

To break their 'two steps forward, one step back' routine on climate action, the Asia-Pacific needs to start delivering on ambitious emissions targets

Simply Put: CoP26 demands justice

Climate change: What should be the Agenda at COP26 Glasgow? Sunita Narain explains

Climate Fund approves 10 low-carbon projects with an investment of $745 million

The latest round of funding takes investment from the agency past the $1-billion mark