Russia ambiguous on Kyoto

With Russia blowing hot and cold on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the ninth conference of parties (COP-9) to the UN Framework Convention on …

Fulfilling CoP26 promises can limit global warming to 2°C: Study

 But will a 2°C world be livable? 

Global climate finance flows for 2015-16 increased by 17%: UN report

The report highlights that a large part of climate finance continues to go towards efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions

COP27: Sameh Shoukry urges countries to reinforce UNFCCC credibility as talks drag on

EU links loss and damage with mitigation goal; said no agreement is better than a poor agreement  

CoP26: The science everyone needs to know about climate change, in 6 charts

Earth’s climate system is interconnected and complex, and even small temperature changes can have large impacts 

Despite growing demand for climate fund, nations fail to agree on replenishment process

Discussions on funding proposals could not happen due to process-related disagreements among Board members

COP22 summit kicks off with a message of collective responsibility

The COP22 President stresses on the need to strengthen the support mechanisms to tackle climate change among the developing and most vulnerable …

African countries launch Renewable Energy Initiative in Paris

AREI aims to achieve 10 GW of new renewable installation by 2020, and expand the generation capacity to 300 GW by 2030

Little progress in talks on new climate deal that will replace Kyoto Protocol

Even though differences over working mode of contact group was resolved, divide between developed and developing nations over content and …

Should HFCs be dealt under Montreal Protocol or Kyoto Protocol?

The climate-damaging refrigerant gases have currently been kept out of the Montreal Protocol that deals with phasing out ozone depleting substances

Climate talks in Bonn serve a grim reminder

Negotiations at the recently concluded climate meet at Bonn were a replay of post-Bali discussions in 2007; Parties agreed to move into formal …

Focus on pledges

Accountability issue set to take centrestage at the upcoming CoP-8 (Read full article)

Whose view of climate equity?

Copenhagen According to USA

Inheritance of loss

Economic losses due to extreme weather events reach record high while nations spar over liability

Pressure point

At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in …

COP28: Global Stocktake adopted, final text attempts stronger language on fossil fuels

Language calling out production of fossil fuels is now missing — a trade off for not making actions optional

What is the Green Credit Programme?

It is a first-of-a-kind market-based instrument designed to incentivise individuals, industries and local bodies for their voluntary …

IPCC’s missing pathways to real climate solutions

A gender transformative and rights-based policy approach to climate modelling is needed

In Maps: What the future holds for our warming world

Climate change will affect up to one-third of the world’s population, but the impact will not be equal across countries

Climate emergency: A question of semantics?

Framing the changing climate as an emergency is preventing progress towards climate action

Climate Emergency CoP 25: India must release its 2005 baseline emissions data

This will enable much high quality policy-relevant analysis of India’s road to sustainability

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Chile pushes for ambitious outcome in Madrid

However, even as the event reached its last day, resolution of key issues is still awaited

Climate Emergency CoP 25: A gap that keeps growing

The Emissions Gap Report for this year makes it clear that countries around the world are falling short to reach their targets vis-à-vis …

New ADP text circulated to countries. Negotiations to continue till late into the night

Talks under the Ad hoc Working Group on Durban Platform (ADP), tasked to negotiate the global climate deal in 2015, seem to be heading nowhere.