Who’d have guessed that a 49.6°C temperature would be recorded somewhere in a normally frigid Canada? Now wildfires, caused by the...

A storm is brewing on the climate diplomacy front that India needs to navigate carefully to avoid becoming a fall guy. The issue at hand...

The private sector in India has traditionally avoided engagement on climate issues publicly. But this seems to be changing. On November...

The world is not only suffering because of Covid and economic distress. It’s also reeling due to climate disasters. The year 2020 is...

This is a straightforward article to discuss the real issues concerning stubble burning, including its contribution to pollution in...

As part of the stimulus package to revive the economy, the Union government has announced a slew of measures to boost production and...

Climate change, habitat loss, antimicrobial resistance, and other factors are increasing the chances of global outbreak of novel...

Many parts of India share the same ecosystem and conditions that have set Australia ablaze. We need to learn lessons to avoid similar...

The failure of COP25 talks shows that to make a few billion dollars from the carbon market, countries are willing to sacrifice the...

Under Donald Trump, energy-related CO2 emissions of the country have grown in 2018, at a rate that is the highest since 2010, and is...

A decade later, the carbon market has collapsed and the developed countries’ funding commitments for REDD+ have also been much lower than...

Bihar alone is not suffering because of searing temperatures. Over the past month, parts of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand,...

Scotland has already declared a climate emergency and is setting targets to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions to net-zero by...

UNFCCC doesn’t have the tools to drive global collective action to combat climate change; we need new platforms and ideas to drive...

Countries are now on their own to mitigate, adapt as well as pay for the costs of climate impacts, but this cannot keep the rise below...

These words were spoken nearly 100 years ago by the then US president Woodrow Wilson to describe his vision of a new world order after...

The world cannot afford warming of 2°C. To have a fighting chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the goal must be firmly...

In the heydays of ‘India Shining’ in 2003, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) had experimented with an alternate model to...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) completed 25 years of its adoption in 2017

It achieved most of its goals with the legally-binding HFC phase-down agreement