At the COP28, pledges by developed countries, to the Adaptation Fund, are over $100 million short of the Fund’s target.…
For the first time, countries have agreed to transition away from fossil fuels to avert the worst consequences of the…
Feel-good, voluntary pledges have dominated the first week of the COP28 UN climate negotiations happening now in Dubai, with host…
The issue of climate finance and loss and damage funds are taking centre stage at the ongoing climate conference in…
COP28 will take stock of the step change in ambition needed, but the gulf in climate finance promises and realities…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report, released in 2021, stated that South Asia will face intensified…
More than any previous year, this year’s UN climate conference, COP28, is likely to be judged on its ability to…
Saleemul Huq, who brought to global attention the need to adapt to climate change impacts and to pay for the…
The annual average loss of infrastructure and buildings, due to natural disasters and climate change, is estimated to be worth…
Ahead of the G20 leaders summit in New Delhi, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi published an article laying out his…
New Delhi is shutting down in preparation for the arrival of world leaders at the G20 Summit on 9-10 September.…
Climate change has reached a point where people can no longer adapt to many of the impacts. Delegates at the…
All participating nations at the UN summit being held in Sharm El Sheikh in eastern Egypt have agreed to place…
The developing world wants financing from the developed world to be the main item on the agenda at this year’s…
Last year, it was the pandemic. This year, it is the war in Ukraine. The global conversation on climate change…
"Kicking the can", “pointing fingers”, and “divorced from climate impacts” were descriptions used by observers to describe progress at the…
Adaptation to climate change impacts will become impossible unless greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are controlled far better, and this must…
The launch of India’s Union Budget, when the finance minister takes the stage carrying her iconic red bag containing the…
At the COP26 climate summit, the leaders of Estonia, Tanzania and Bangladesh were the first to sign the Glasgow Women’s Leadership…
After running over by a day, negotiators at COP26 finally reached agreement on a “Glasgow Climate Pact” on 13 November.…
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) drew to a close yesterday, Friday, November 12. When it began, almost two weeks…
The fortnight-long UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow started with a bang but ended the first week with the usual…
As the World Leaders' Summit kicked off at COP26 on 1 November, India announced that it would be net zero…
Almost all developing nations that have updated their climate pledges in the run-up to the UN climate summit COP26 have…
The Paris Agreement works on a five-year cycle. Twice a decade, each country is expected to increase its ambition on…
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